Italian intelligence

The terrorist who killed two Swedish football fans in Brussels last Monday was a prisoner in Tunisia.

Two Italian intelligence agents and a former member of the Israeli security forces died when a boat carrying tourists overturned in strong winds on Lake Maggiore in Italy, officials said Monday.

A Russian woman was also reportedly killed when the boat capsized Sunday evening near Lisanza at the southern end of the lake in northern Italy, after the weather suddenly turned stormy.

Italian police said on Wednesday they had arrested an Italian navy captain and a Russian diplomat on suspicion of spying after the two were caught swapping a document for money at a clandestine meeting.

Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MİT) helped rescue a kidnapped Italian aid worker in Somalia, state-run Anadolu Agency said on May 10.

Silvia Constanza Romano, who was working for an Italian charity called African Milele, was abducted in Kenya's southeastern coastal town of Chakama in Kenya in November 2018. No group claimed responsibility for the kidnapping.   

In his eight months in office, Marco Minniti, the austere Italian interior minister, has overseen a huge reduction in the number of African migrants and refugees reaching Italian shores from Libya, reported The Guardian. 

At the last count in August, the figure was 87% down on the previous year.

A former CIA agent who was found guilty of kidnapping an Egyptian imam by an Italian court more than a decade ago said on June 29 she intended to return to Italy to face her sentence, but hopes to avoid prison.

BELGRADE - Rome is bracing itself for terrorist attacks by Albanian ISIS recruits based in Italy, La Republica reported last week.

According to La Republica, the terrorist threat for Italy does not come from the desperate migrants seeking a better life but on the contrary, from Albanian villages "which have raised ISIS flags".

BELGRADE - Kosovo police have denied media reports about the presence in the region of one of the leaders of the Daesh militant group, Lavdrim Muhaxheri, the Kosovo police press service said on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - "Butcher of Kacanik", that is Lavdrim Muhadzeri, one of the most wanted leaders of the so-called Islamic State, returned a few months ago to Kosovo, writes Italian "Espresso" citing sources in the Italian intelligence service.

Muhadzeri is known to the public by fearsome photographs from 2014 that show him beheading "traitors", recalls the Italian daily.

BELGRADE - Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) is planning terrorist attacks on resorts in southern Europe, including in France, Italy and Spain, a report says, adding that suicide bombers are expected to be disguised as beach vendors.