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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Afghanistan releases Italian charity workers AFP - Monday, April 19 Send IM Story Print KABUL (AFP) - – Three Italian charity workers freed Sunday more than a week after being arrested for allegedly plotting to kill an Afghan official said investigations had proved them innocent. Matteo Dell'Aria, Marco Garatti and Matteo Pagani work for the Milan-based medical charity Emergency and were arrested on April 10 near the charity's hospital in Lashkar Gah, capital of restive Helmand province. Afghanistan's NDS intelligence agency said investigations had found they were "not guilty," after being accused by Helmand's Governor Gulab Mangal of being part of a Taliban-funded plot to kill him. "We are tremendously happy to be released, to be back home, that our names and that of Emergency have come out completely clean, and in the next few days probably we will understand what really happened," said Garatti. During interrogations by NDS officials, he said he was "never confronted with the evidence," referring to allegations that suicide vests and weapons had been seized from the hospital at the time of the arrests. Speaking to reporters at the Italian embassy in Kabul, he said "it is possible the weapons could get in the hospital without our knowledge, we are not there 24 hours". But he added: "Emergency is not involved in this episode. We have 1,000 workers (in Afghanistan) and I would like to know who is responsible for this plot". Six of their Afghan colleagues were also arrested. The NDS statement said all but one had been released. Mangal had also accused the Italians of being behind the death of Ajmal Naqshbandi, an Afghan interpreter seized by the Taliban with an Italian journalist in April 2007. Emergency officials brokered the reporter's release but Naqshbandi was beheaded. The charity has dismissed the plot allegations and suggestions the arrested men were involved in Naqshbandi's death. Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini announced the release of the three in a statement in Rome. "We have obtained what was our main aim, that is the release of our three compatriots, without putting into question our solidarity with Afghan institutions or with the international coalition," he said. "This is the result of intense diplomatic activity conducted in a professional manner and with discretion," Frattini said. He told reporters separately the three would leave Afghanistan within hours on a plane sent by the Italian government. "We are very, very happy after eight days of worrying," said Cecilia Strada, president of Emergency. "We never had any doubt that at the end everything would work out for the best because we always knew they were innocent," she said. On Saturday thousands of people demonstrated in central Rome to demand their release. The men were detained after suicide vests, home-made bombs, guns and ammunition were found in a storeroom at a hospital in Lashkar Gah run by their charity. Mangal told reporters at the time that they were planning attacks in Lashkar Gah and that "the number one target was myself". He said their operation was funded by the Afghan Taliban based in Pakistan and that they had been paid 500,000 dollars to carry it out. The Italian charity rejected the claims as groundless. Aid workers and officials in Kabul have said Emergency had been imprudent to treat Taliban fighters in Lashkar Gah and allow an international television station to interview them. But Garatti repeated the Emergency position that all parties to a conflict have a right to medical treatment, no matter what side they are on. Lashkar Gah has been caught up in a major offensive by US, NATO and Afghan forces aimed at dislodging militants from the nearby district of Marjah. The hospital in Lashkar Gah is one of three in Afghanistan, along with 28 clinics and an orphanage, run by Emergency, which says it has treated 2.5 million people in the country in the past decade. Emergency was created in 1994 in Milan in northern Italy and has been in Afghanistan since 1999. Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday promised a "transparent and fair" investigation into the plot claims, at a meeting with Italy's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Attilio Iannucci. 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