Wednesday, December 28, 2005
ROME (AP) -- Italian authorities, fearing a possible terrorist attack on the Winter Olympics in Turin, are conducting surveillance on "numerous" people through telephone wiretaps and other intelligence operations, an Italian security official said Tuesday.
Luigi Rinella, the Italian police's liaison with the U.S. government, said those under surveillance included suspected Islamic militants, but he stressed that anti-globalization protesters and anarchists could also make trouble during the Feb. 10-26 games.
"Clearly at this moment, the sensibility is to groups that we call Islamic terrorist that are connected to Al-Qaida," he told The Associated Press.
Rinella said the surveillance involved telephone wiretaps and other forms of interceptions.
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