[Reader-list] Anarchists claim responsibility for Rome bombs

[Subhash]

As a matter of fact, all anarchists and non-Islamic terrorists must
have been cursing the Muslims for taking up all the limelight. There's
no way their voice can be heard these days - even if they make some
noise, it is considered an Islamic terror act. Pity....


On 12/24/10, Javed <javedmasoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> So far it was "...but all terrorists are Muslims". But where do you
> fit in the anarchists? Are all terrorists not anarchists?
>
> ---
> Anarchists claim responsibility for Rome bombs
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101223/wl_nm/us_italy_explosion
>
> ROME (Reuters) – An Italian anarchist group claimed responsibility for
> parcel bombs on Thursday that wounded two people at the Swiss and
> Chilean embassies in Rome, a reminder of Europe's home-grown threats
> at a time of political instability.
>
> A Swiss man was seriously wounded and rushed to hospital. An employee
> at the Chilean embassy was less seriously hurt. A note was found stuck
> to his clothing, claiming responsibility for the attack on behalf of
> the FAI, or Informal Anarchist Federation.
>
> "We have decided to make our voice heard with words and with facts, we
> will destroy the system of dominance, long live the FAI, long-live
> Anarchy," said the note, written in Italian, which was released in the
> evening by the police.
>
> The incidents bore similarities to an episode in Greece last month in
> which far-left militants sent parcel bombs to foreign governments
> abroad and to embassies in Athens.
>
> The note was signed by the "Lambros Fountas revolutionary cell" of the
> FAI, named for a Greek anarchist killed in a clash with Athens police
> in March. It also made reference to anarchist movements in Chile,
> Mexico, Spain and Argentina.
>
> "Greece, Italy and Spain have seen the presence of
> anarcho-insurrectionalist groups that are tightly linked," Italy's
> Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said before the note was found. "They
> are very violent."
>
> The FAI is well known to Italian authorities. Intelligence services
> said in a report to parliament last year that it was "the main
> national terrorist threat of an anarchist-insurrectionalist type."
>
> In December 2009 the group claimed responsibility for a bomb that
> partially exploded in a tunnel under Milan's Bocconi University at 3
> am, causing no casualties.
>
> No note was found at the Swiss embassy, but police said the packages
> that exploded were almost identical.
>
> The explosions came at a time of tension in Italy. Last week saw an
> anti-government student protest that descended into some of the worst
> street violence in Rome for many years.
>
> Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini condemned the incidents,
> which he said were a serious threat to diplomatic missions in Rome. He
> urged caution and warned against alarmist reactions.
>
> The attacks, like those in Greece, focused attention on Europe's
> domestic security threats at a time when authorities had otherwise
> been warning of the risk of attacks by al Qaeda.
>
> "It doesn't look like a typical jihadist thing. It looks more like the
> act of a leftist, fringe group," said Stephan Bierling, professor of
> International Politics at Regensburg University in Germany.
>
> Spending cuts caused by the financial crisis have led to
> demonstrations and strikes around Europe, and experts expect a rise in
> political violence by far-left groups.
>
> "Given the similarities with the recent parcel bombs in Greece
> following anti-austerity protests, this could be a copycat incident by
> domestic activists," said Samantha Wolreich, European risk analyst at
> advisory firm AKE.
>
> A Greek police official said they had so far not received a request
> for help from Italian police. He said Greek authorities had stepped up
> checks of parcels at airports across the country following the attacks
> in Italy.
>
> HEIGHTENED SECURITY FEARS
>
> Bomb disposal experts searched the Swiss embassy offices but staff
> remained in the building following the incident, which occurred at
> around midday (1100 GMT).
>
> Firefighters conducted checks of the Chilean embassy, in the same
> prosperous neighborhood, after the explosion of the package the size
> of a document. Other inspections were carried out at foreign missions
> across the Italian capital.
>
> A source in the Rome prosecutors' office said the package in the
> Chilean embassy had been sent from Italy, while the package in the
> Swiss embassy had been completely destroyed.
>
> "We are reviewing our security posture in Rome in light of incidents
> today," U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said in
> Washington.
>
> Chilean ambassador Oscar Godoy said there had been no indication that
> an attack was likely.
>
> "This is an absolutely irrational and brutal act of terrorism," he
> told reporters.
>
> The explosions follow the discovery of a rudimentary device in an
> empty underground train in Rome on Tuesday. However, police said that
> it lacked a detonator and tests showed it contained no explosive.
>
> (Additional reporting by Antonella Cinelli, Massimiliano Di Giorgio
> and Catherine Hornby in Rome, Sven Egenter in Zurich, Olzhas Auyezov
> in Kiev, William Maclean and Peter Apps in London, Ingrid Melander in
> Athens; Writing by James Mackenzie and Gavin Jones; Editing by Peter
> Graff)
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