Italian police arrest 28 al-Qaida suspects

ITALIAN police hunting illegal immigrants in Naples stumbled across what they say is an al-Qaida terror cell.

Italian police arrest 28 al-Qaida suspects

They arrested 28 Pakistanis and found explosives, detonators, forged documents and maps of NATO installations in the flat the men were using.

Maps of the Naples area had "sensitive targets" circled with a pen, police said yesterday in announcing they had uncovered an "al-Qaida terrorist cell."

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