Seven Italians have had their names taken in a probe into pro-al Qaeda blogging.
The seven, mostly young people, were questioned by police at their homes near Florence, the southern city of Reggio Calabria and Latina near Rome.
The blogs - all written in Italian - hailed al-Qaeda operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Algeria, Kashmir and the Palestinian territories.
They also posted video and audio statements from Osama Bin Laden and his No.2 Ayman al-Zawahiri - including al-Zawahiri's recent call to ''welcome George Bush to the Middle East with bombs and car bombs''.
One of the blogs was run from Senegal by a Muslim cleric expelled from Italy a few months ago, Fall Mamour; another was managed by Mamour's wife.
Two were based in Italy. They were run by a 21-year-old female university student in Reggio and a 19-year-old male student in Latina.
When questioned, the two admitted they sympathised with al Qaeda.
The young man said al Qeada was ''not a terrorist organisation but a movement with a certain vision of the world and religion, which I fully share,'' police said.
Investigators said they seven were clearly not terrorists, but evidence that al Qaeda propaganda was reaping support in Italy.
