Italian anti-terrorism police arrested a Pakistani in the northern city of Mantova on Tuesday who is accused of inciting jihadist violence over the internet. The suspect was arrested in an operation that included raids in cities in three regions across Italy, police said.
The Pakistani used his Facebook page to urge "indeterminate" numbers of people to carry out acts of violence in the name of jihad or holy war, police said.
Anti-terror raids were carried out in Mantova, Milan and Como in the northern Lombardy region, in Prato in the central region of Tuscany and in Enna in the southern Sicily region, investigators said.
Italian police in April arrested 18 alleged members of a suspected jihadist terror cell based in the Sardinian coastal resort of Olbia that was coordinated by a Pakistani builder, police said.
The group sought to fund and carry out terrorist attacks in Afghanistan, and Pakistan, where it wanted to incite a popular uprising against the government to make it end its anti-Taliban operations and its support for remaining US forces in Afghanistan, according to investigators.
Some of the suspects are believed to be responsible for past attacks including the 2009 car bombing of a market in Pakistan's northwest frontier town of Peshawar that killed over 100 people, according to police.
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