http://www.ilvelino.it/articolo.php?Id=361691 Bush, Terror alarm for U.S. President's Rome trip
Rome, 25 mag (Velino) - The Prefect of Rome, Achille Serra, is "very worried" over the tensions police sources say are building up as left-wing demonstrators prepare to protest the scheduled arrival of George W. Bush in the Eternal City on June 8, prefecture sources say. Nearly all the parties on the left of the Government coalition together with parts of the far-left Autonomia movement, the "social centres," and even the Italian anarchist movement have been planning for weeks rallies and demonstrations against the war in Iraq to coincide with the U.S. president's sojour here, say the sources. Organisers of the protests plan to block the entire centre of the city with a non-stop demonstration, the first time such a continuous rally has been conceived in the recent history of the city, and a march that the protesters want to route as close to Palazzo Chigi and the Montecitorio Parliament building as possible. Prefect Serra up to a week ago had been relaxed about the Bush trip and his current concern follows the drawing up of security plans for the visit by the Italian Interior Ministry and the office of Walter Veltroni, the Mayor of Rome. Serra evidently became concerned after Interior Minister Giuliano Amato spoke of an increased terrorism threat, both from domestic and international terrorists, indicating that he had received specific reports of the heightened risk from the UCIGOS, the body that coordinates the activities of the DIGOS, the anti-terrorist police unit, and the Italian secret intelligence services. Amato is known to be concerned about reports from maximum security prisons of imprisoned members of the Red Brigades left-wing terrorist group plotting new outrages in a climate of activism said to be the most rabid for 10 years. Members of the provincial committee for order and security are scheduled to meet Thursday to plan the security for the Bush visit and several members are believed to feel that the Mayor's office does not take security problems seriously enough, including those linked to prostitution, drugs, illegal street selling and Roma street thieves as well as political militancy, political experts say. Bush's itinerary naturally has not yet been disclosed in detail. However diplomatic sources say that he will stay at Villa Taverna, the sprawling residence of the US Ambassador in Rome's posh Parioli district, that he will have an audience with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican and that he will have talks with Italian counterpart Giorgio Napolitano as well as the Italian Prime Minister, Romano Prodi, and the Italian Foreign Minister, Massimo D'Alema. Also considered certain is a meeting between Bush and the opposition leader, Silvio Berlusconi, while a visit to the Roman Catholic community of Sant'Egidio, in Trastevere, also is "probable," say the sources. The Sant'Egidio movement played a crucial role in mediating a peace agreement ending civil war in Mozambique and is active in its own special brand of humanitarian diplomacy in several African countries and elsewhere with Madeleine Albright visiting the Trastevere offices of the organisation when she was U.S. Secretary of State. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
