Raid on sheep farm ends 43-year hunt

(ANSA) - Palermo, April 11 - Cosa Nostra superboss Bernardo Provenzano, whose ghostly aura fed the Sicilian Mafia's mystique for almost half a century, was arrested Tuesday morning in the biggest police coup in over a decade. Provenzano, 73, did not resist arrest when police broke into his hide-out in an apparently abandoned building on a sheep farm near his home town of Corleone south of Palermo ."He didn't move. He was unruffled and didn't say anything," the arresting officer said. Police called the arrest "historic". more>>

SOURCE: ANSA