WORLD IN BRIEF : ITALY : Jailed Mafiosi Moved After Judge’s Killing
Italy deployed troops in Sicily in a show of strength a day after the slaying of a leading anti-Mafia judge and transferred more than 100 jailed Mafia bosses to top security jails elsewhere. About 55 of the mob’s top men, including Michele Greco, the reputed “godfather” of the Sicilian Mafia, were secretly taken from the main jail in Palermo during the night and flown in military planes to an island prison off Tuscany. The move came after the Mafia killed Judge Paolo Borsellino and five bodyguards with some 88 pounds of explosives hidden under a car parked outside the building where Borsellino’s mother lives.
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