Italy reports: Anarchists claim embassy blasts

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: Associated Press

ROME -- Italian news reports say a claim by an Italian anarchist group was found at the site of one of the twin embassy package bomb blasts in Rome.

The ANSA news agency said Thursday night that the written claim was made by the Italian Anarchist Federation. Anti-terrorism police officers at Rome police headquarters declined to comment on the report.

The group has long been known in Italy and has a Web site calling for the end of what it says is man's exploitation of fellow man. Earlier, Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said the blasts at the Swiss and Chilean embassies were likely the work of anarchists. Two employees - one at each embassy - were seriously wounded when opening mail.

Read more: http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2010/12/23/general-eu-italy-embassy-blast_8222418.html

[ck4829]

1. I wonder if this will end up with an anarchist "falling" out of a window

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Pinelli

[Freddie Stubbs]

2. Apperently Gravity is the one law which even anarchist follow

[ck4829]

3. Yep, especially if one receives some assistance

[madrchsod]

4. they must be tired of being forgotten....

[louis-t]

5. Earlier some news reports called them "eco-terrorists"

Can't wait for rush to claim they are "leftists".

[NYMdaveNYI]

9. Rush/Beck/etc are going to BLOW this one up

like a fucking balloon.

I see it now.

Glenn’s gonna get his chalkboard and conjure up some connection between the Italian Anarchists and the ACLU or NAACP or OFA or (insert organization that the right hasn’t already defamed and smeared).

[GliderGuider]

6. 99% of anarchists

give the rest of us a bad name...

[JDPriestly]

7. Why the Swiss and Chilean embassies?

[davidinalameda]

8. they don't like chocolate or sea bass

:shrug:

[MilesColtrane]

10. "calling for the end of what it says is man's exploitation of fellow man"

What's Italian for "irony"?

[starroute]

11. This coming from the nation that invented the "strategy of tension"?

I mean -- take this with a grain of salt, people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_of_tension

The strategy of tension (Italian: strategia della tensione) is a theory that describes how world powers divide, manipulate, and control public opinion using fear, propaganda, disinformation, psychological warfare, agents provocateurs, and false flag terrorist actions.

The theory began with allegations that the United States and the Greek military junta of 1967–1974 supported far-right terrorist groups in Italy and Turkey – whose institutions appeared to be threatened by communism – to spread panic among the population who would in turn demand stronger and more dictatorial governments. . . .

Carlo Digilio, an Italian neofascist codenamed "Uncle Otto" coordinated CIA activities in the Italian Regions of Veneto and Friuli from the 60s to the 70s, recruiting former fascists to serve the NATO and U.S. interests in Italy. He himself had been recruited in Verona by U.S. Navy captain David Carrett.

These groups began to pursue an ostensibly extreme right-wing anti-communist agenda using violent means, including false flag bombings that were then blamed on extra-parliamentary left-wing militant organizations, to discredit the political Left in general at a time in Italy when the Italian Communist Party was very close to entering government. It should be noted that the actions carried out by these extreme groups were meant primarily to agitate and control public opinion, creating fears about the Communist Party. At the time, they created massive public concern and widespread paranoia. According to the "strategia della tensione" theory, this was deliberate. Examples of such actions include the 1972 Peteano bombing, long thought to have been carried out by the Red Brigades, but for which the neofascist terrorist Vincenzo Vinciguerra has been imprisoned, the attempted assassination of former Interior Minister Mariano Rumor on 17 May 1973 or the Bologna railway station bombing known as the Bologna massacre of 1980.