Italian police have arrested three Moroccan terror suspects and are charging them with running a "terror school" inside a mosque in central Italy. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the police report which stated that "in between daily prayers, the small mosque doubled as a training camp." Among the items that police seized during the mosque raid were several barrels of chemicals and an instruction manual on how to pilot a Boeing 747 airplane. From CNN:

ROME, Italy (AP) — Police on Saturday arrested three Moroccans and accused them of running a "terror school" at a small mosque in central Italy, where they allegedly trained for combat, learned about bombs and stashed away chemicals.

Italian anti-terror police said they found barrels of chemicals and instructions on how to pilot a Boeing 747 in the Ponte Felcino mosque on the outskirts of Perugia. A fourth suspect was being sought.

"The investigation has shown that, in the Ponte Felcino mosque, there was a continued training for terrorist activity," anti-terror police head Carlo De Stefano said. "We have discovered and neutralized a real 'terror school,' which was part of a widespread terrorism system made up of small cells that act on their own."

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