Italy & Netherlands Approve Sweeping Powers
Italy's centre-right government has approved stronger measures to fight terrorism, giving police permission to hold suspects for longer without charge and announcing plans to create a supreme prosecutor for antiterrorist investigations.
The government will set up a taskforce of police, carabinieri paramilitary forces and guardia di finanza financial police with a specific antiterrorist mission.
Giuseppe Pisanu, interior minister, announced "The threat of attacks is looming, and looming every day. The level of alert is high in Italy as in all European countries."
The Netherlands, after last November's murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a radical Islamist, introduced measures allowing authorities to deport radical imams and close mosques, and to charge suspects with conspiracy to commit a terror acts or belonging to a group with terrorist intentions.
The government will set up a taskforce of police, carabinieri paramilitary forces and guardia di finanza financial police with a specific antiterrorist mission.
Giuseppe Pisanu, interior minister, announced "The threat of attacks is looming, and looming every day. The level of alert is high in Italy as in all European countries."
The Netherlands, after last November's murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a radical Islamist, introduced measures allowing authorities to deport radical imams and close mosques, and to charge suspects with conspiracy to commit a terror acts or belonging to a group with terrorist intentions.
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