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Palestinian Arrested in Italy for Plotting to Poison Town's Water Supply
(Times of Israel) Federico Maccioni - Alaji Aminun, a Palestinian refugee from Lebanon with links to the Islamic State, was arrested in Italy on Wednesday for planning a terror attack on the island of Sardinia. State anti-terror prosecutor Federico Cafiero de Raho said Aminun planned to poison the water supply in the town of Macomer, as well as a nearby military base, with ricin and anthrax. In September, Lebanese authorities arrested Aminun's cousin on suspicion of plotting to poison the water supply of a military barracks. Italian authorities were tipped off to the plot by Interpol, who learned of it from Lebanese authorities.