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Jul. 12,
Italian arsenal on hand for G-8 meeting
Thousands of troops, ships and missile system will comprise security
measures
ROME (AP) - Thousands of troops, including specialists in chemical, nuclear
and biological warfare, will be part of the security used to protect world
leaders at next week's Group of Eight summit in Genoa, the Defence Ministry
said Thursday.
Minesweepers and other ships are also headed to the port city, and a missile
defence system was installed earlier this week, the ministry said.
The government plans to use 2,700 army, navy and air force troops during the
summit, but none will be deployed against demonstrators, according to the
Defence Ministry. They will be used for air and sea patrols, and some
surveillance work.
Crowd control is being left to between 12,000 and 16,000 police officers,
who will be armed with tear gas, water cannon and batons.
Anti-globalization protesters are expected in the thousands at the July
20-22 summit in the Italian port city.
The G-8 will be attended by leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany,
Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States. Prime Minister Jean Chretien
will represent Canada.
Protests have evolved into a fixture of international meetings since riots
rocked the 1999 World Trade Organization conference in Seattle and the 2000
meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in the Czech
Republic.
The anti-missile system set up as a precaution is a short-range,
anti-aircraft battery similar to those deployed at several of the country's
airports, Col. Paolo Bressan said.
Dubbed the SPADA, the land-based system consists of missiles capable with a
range of more than 14 kilometres and an altitude of 1,500 metres, Bressan
said.
Citing security reasons, Bressan refused to say how many missiles the system
contained.
With many leaders, aides and journalists being lodged on ships or in hotels
near the port, and with the conference sites also near the sea, water
security is considered crucial.
Navy personnel, including divers, will be involved in inspecting ship hulls
for mines as well as sea patrols. A torpedo destroyer and a minesweeper are
part of the fleet.
Air force planes will survey the city from the skies, and the army is
supplying paratroopers and bomb disposal experts.
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