| The Italian military based in southern Iraq is looking into an intelligence report that 300 Islamic militants, possibly from Chechnya, may have arrived in the area, the army chief of staff said Sunday. The Corriere della Sera newspaper said that in recent days British intelligence reported that 300 Chechen militants who had trained in Afghanistan were heading toward Nasiriyah after having broken into smaller groups. "It’s a report that everyone has had. Now we will want to verify whether this report is followed up by a real explanation on the ground," Italian army chief of staff General Giulio Fraticelli told the Italian state television network RAI in Nasiriyah. |