Nine acquitted of US embassy plot in Rome

A Rome court today acquitted nine Moroccans accused of plotting an attack on the US embassy.

The verdict came after about three hours of deliberations in a top-security court in the Italian capital.

The nine were arrested in February 2002, on suspicion they were planning to poison the embassy’s water supply with a chemical compound found at the Rome apartment where four of the suspects were living.

Maps indicating the US embassy were found outside the same apartment.