(Updated) Under Attack? Two Bombs Explode Outside Embassies in Rome
- Posted on December 23, 2010 at 9:28am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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ROME (AP) — Package bombs exploded at the Swiss and Chilean embassies in Rome on Thursday, injuring the two people who opened them, officials said. Police ordered checks at all embassies after a false alarm was also reported at the Ukrainian embassy.
No one immediately claimed responsibility, but authorities appeared to discount domestic anarchists or protesters.*
“It’s a wave of terrorism against embassies, something much more worrisome than a single attack,” Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno said.
He added that Italian authorities were following an “international path” in their investigations, distinguishing the attack from a fake bomb found earlier this week on a subway in Rome.
Last month, suspected Greek radical anarchists sent fourteen mail bombs to foreign embassies in Athens – including the Swiss – as well as to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi. Nobody was hurt and only two devices exploded, causing no injuries. A group called Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire claimed responsibility.
The first bomb on Thursday exploded inside the Swiss embassy at around noon. The man who opened it was hospitalized with serious hand injuries but his life was not in danger, said Swiss ambassador Bernardino Regazzoni.
About three hours later, witnesses outside the Chilean embassy said they heard a blast, sending police to the scene. One person was injured, police said.
Rome police chief Francesco Tagliente said a suspicious package at the Ukrainain embassy was a false alarm, but added that all embassies in the Italian capital had been informed of the blasts.
There have been growing concerns in Europe about holiday season attacks following a suicide bombing in Sweden and security services’ fears of an assault on a European city modeled on the deadly shooting spree in Mumbai, India.
On Tuesday, there was a bomb scare in the Rome subway after authorities discovered a suspicious package with wires and powder under a subway seat. The device ended up being a fake, with police determining there was no trigger mechanism and its the powder was inert, cement-like material.
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Associated Press reporters Frances D’Emilio, Paolo Santalucia and Valentina Chiarini contributed to this report.
*Editor’s note: While the AP seems eager to brush aside the notion that the attacks could be from anarchists, other credible news sources are not. The London Telegraph, for example, is reporting that the bombs could be the work anarchists. Read that report here.
This story has been updated.
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Posted on December 25, 2010 at 12:11amThis is probably another false flag attack like many of the other so called attacks we have seen. They need a reason to body scan us and have us submit to their police state. They already consider those of us that support or are part of the tea party movement terrorist. Just look back at history at how governments have used staged terror to seize total control.
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dontbotherme
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 8:56pmCut off the head of the snake. The authorities need to seriously determine who is in charge of these bombings & attacks destroy the leaders.
Report Post »Xcori8r
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 8:34pmThe pro’s are doing the nasty stuff to incite government response. It doesn’t matter who the target is. The the dupes will now flame up a bit more. More pro incidents, more government response, more dupe flaming… expanding cycle of violence and response until the insidious forces get the level of repression they want.
Report Post »sdparker
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 7:04pmIs our White House blaming this on America too?
Report Post »brotherhiram
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 4:30pmWhat I am trying to understand is why Switzerland and Chile…
I mean here are 2 countries who sit on the sidelines minding their own business and then this?
It’s like the poor guy at a bar when a fight breaks out who stands away and all of a sudden wham!!!! fist to the jaw.
Report Post »brotherhiram
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 4:13pmI just read on ilcorrieredellasera.it, one of the main newspapers in italy, that Anarchists have been confirmed, another smaller package found in the chilean ambassy had a letter from an anarchist group claiming responsibility for this vile act… once again, the peaceful left at work…
I really hope that the american public will realize fast that moving towards Europe’s policies will open us to this madness.
these are the people that support Obama in Europe, these are the people who support his agenda.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 12:41pmwhat do you mean “under attack???” what else would you call a BOMBING. jeesh, title-writer.
Report Post »pwatkins
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 12:07pmYeah, Glenn is probably right, anarchists at work here. We all know the muslims‘s bombs don’t go off anymore since the Obama administration. They must have gotten word the virgins were all used up in ALLAH paradise. Assange is demoralizing them before they reach ALLAH LAND.
Report Post »KEA
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 11:47amI wonder if our National Intelagence Director knows anything about it?
Report Post »ronmorgen
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 11:45amThey’re all diversions, then one day, Boom, no more New York.
Report Post »5410amh
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 11:39amthe world is F**UCKED UP BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »5410amh
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 11:39amif these wern’t muslims that did this I still stand behind my origional statement. and besides the europeans are going crazy half the time their sluaghtering everybody in sight.
Report Post »5410amh
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 11:36amislam is a religion that is only violent and needs to be destroyed once and for all.
Report Post »JulesP1977
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 11:03amI heard on Fox this morning that Rome thinks it was Italian Anarchists. Boy, when Glenn is right, Glenn is right!
Report Post »Rillobymorning
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 10:42amI sure hope James Clapper was watching Fox News this morning, so he has a clue.
Report Post »LAMET
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 10:47amOr Diane Sawyer called him to let know – since his staff does not tell him anything!
Report Post »JulesP1977
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 11:15amHow embarrassing was it to see Clapper just sit and there and blankly stare at Sawyer? It hurt watching that video. I can’t stand that man, but even I was embarrassed for him.
Report Post »temple62
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 10:08amWill some please inform Director of National Intelligence James Clapper of this incident?
Report Post »pwatkins
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 10:30amHe knows this time, Soros called him just before the bomb went off….lol.
Report Post »psst
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 3:14pmGive the guy a break. He’s got the Claps.
Report Post »A person can only worrry about so many things aat once.
N37BU6
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 10:00amWhy don’t they just make bombs illegal?
Works for everything else… right?
Report Post »Cuthalu
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 9:57amHow much you want to bet is one of those dangerous swedish supermodels who did this? Or maybe that wild group of midget atheists! Just as long as no one blames muslims for it.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 10:45amOh no! You can’t go around just assuming it was the members of the religion of peace doing it! We must speak softly around them so as not to offend.
Report Post »Funny how the crazies and the pansies in our society are sooo worried about offending them while they are trying to KILL us.
CHRISTMAS HAM!!!
psst
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 9:51amAaw!! C’mon folks.Thier’s No There there.
Report Post »Christmas is nearly here.Er, I meant Happy Holidze. daze. Sorry.
Haven‘t Ya’ll heard of celebrating Happy Holidaze daze early.?
It’s like the 4th of July.. One can hear chirrens/chillluns and even adults setting-off fireworks on the 2nd and 3rd.
Most folks /companies holds Christmas er forgive me, (I just gave my-self 20 lashes) Happy Holidaze parties many daze before Happy Holidaze.daze.
Merry Holidaze daze.
Santa’s in a daze. He won’t be coming to your house on the 25th daze.
That‘s Santa’s holidaze daze also.
What!! You want the guy to work on his holidaze?
Shame on ye’all.
xm-1774u
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 9:38ampeaceful islam agean
Report Post »guyperram
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 9:35amBootom up, Top down, Squeeze out the middle. What a surprise. Look at our future!
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 9:33amDarn!….must be more of those radical Judeo-Christian terrorists….you know the ones, that the Muslims warned us about……..
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 9:42amIt’s the Tea Party people that are causing all this violence… and those no good, Christmas celebrating, Bible reading, cheek turning Christians.
Report Post »janddjohnson
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 9:42amThat was good. Thanks for the hmmmm laugh?
Report Post »Cool Arrow
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 9:53amIt was Barney Frank with his Radical Homosexual Agenda
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 9:57amNew rule: Do NOT open unaddressed gift packages without having them x-rayed. Simple, no?
Report Post »USMCRETIRED2001
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 10:01amOH no, a radical liberal atheist anarchist who HATES the post office ?? They are protesting stamps again … Or just another radical extremist muslim jihadist celebrating with a “bang” ?
Report Post »Susan Harkins
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 10:09amIts a good thing that DHS has started profiling these terrorists. Now we know who to keep a lookout for, as a culprit of these bombings: a white middle-aged partially bald conservative male with a patriotic bumper sticker! If I see anything suspicious…well… like an…uhm…”white middle-aged partially bald conservative male with a patriotic bumper sticker”, then I will file my report him at one of the Walmart cashier Janet Napaligrotto TV sets, so that they can stop all of these bombings.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 10:50amAnyone wish to take a guess as to how long before such an ‘attack’ is manufactured and then is ‘mailed to the white house’ or the congress? It could be a real attack like the anthrax assaults of the past, or one manufactured by the administration for their own usages.
Yes, I know the response from will be “It’s a conspiracy man!” or some variation; just consider this though, how many governments of the past and present have engineered incidents in some shape or form to meet their own agendas?
http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 1:57pmHomeland Security is salivating that they’re expecting home grown terrorism here.
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