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    "editor1": "<p><strong>Milan, Aug 4 (CRICKETNMORE):<\/strong> Aftab Farook, a Pakistani expelled on suspicion of supporting the Islamic State group and plotting attacks in Italy, played cricket for its national youth side, an official said.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cricketnmore.com\/cricket-special\/kumar-sangakkara-picks-his-all-time-playing-eleven--17232\"><span style=\"color:#FF0000;\">Kumar Sangakkara picks his all-time playing eleven.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;I struggle to believe what I read in the newspapers about Farook,&quot; said the president of Italy&#39;s cricket federation, Simone Gambino.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;He was a gentle, sensitive and cultured young man who played for our national under-19s team from 2005-2009,&quot; he said. &quot;He was a very normal guy.&quot;&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Gambino and Farook were Facebook friends and had last been touch as recently as just over a month ago, Gambino said.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Italian authorities had made too much of 26-year-old Farook&#39;s full beard and his &quot;attitude&quot; Gambino stated.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;We are very worried about him because he has been sent back to Pakistan, where he no longer has anyone. His parents and entire family live in Vaprio d&#39;Adda,&quot; Gambino said, referring to a town near Milan.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Farook was arrested at his parents&#39; home in Vaprio d&#39;Adda and deported on Monday after police caught him talking about using a gun or bomb to target wine shops in Milan and Bergamo in wiretaps and &quot;obsessively&quot; viewing IS propaganda online.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>He was also allegedly planning a terrorist attack on the northern city of Bergamo&#39;s international airport, Orio al Serio, investigators have said.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Farook was an IS supporter and planned to go to Syria to fight for the group, Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said after his expulsion from Italy.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Farook worked for a local branch of the sports goods retailer Decathlon and also volunteered as a driver of a bus for disabled people in his spare time.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>He arrived in Italy in 2003 aged 13 and made several unsuccessful applications for citizenship, the most recent of which was in March.<\/p>\r\n",
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