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According to South African news outlet News24, Italian Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisan has announced the following:

Three Algerians arrested in an anti-terrorist operation in Salerno are suspected of being linked to a planned new series of attacks in the United States. The attacks would have targeted ships, stadiums, or railway stations, with the intent of causing more destruction than the attacks of September 11th, said Pisanu.

Voice of America is also reporting the following detail:


Police wiretaps picked up a conversation following the July terror bombings in London in which Mr Bouhrama and an unidentified person talked about finding a ship like the Titanic, packing it with explosives and killing 10,000 people in Italy.

In a separate conversation after July terror attack in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Mr Bouhrama was recorded as saying that soon there'll be an even bigger celebration.

It is clear from the above reports that the terror cell was broken up as a result of electronic surveillance. The interception may well have saved thousands of Italian and American lives."
CounterColumn

Even though I know that the wiretapping laws are different in Italy, I think it's important to note that this account is of legal wiretapping. There is no doubt that wiretapping can an is an important tool in a criminal case and in tracking down terrorist, that's "legal wiretapping". Which would have nothing to do with what the president admitted to doing to innocent Americans. Don't you just love the spin coming from the right these days, it all has to do with what the definition if "is" is. You have to give them one thing, they learn fast.