Strategy of Tension again? Genoa again!

Monday December 09, 2002 21:45

by strategy of tension again? Genoa again!

from RTE.ie

(12:59) Two bombs exploded outside the police headquarters in the north Italian port city of Genoa early today, smashing windows but causing no injuries. The blasts occurred about 10 minutes apart around 4.00am local time. Police believe the second, bigger, bomb was designed to injure officers investigating the first. advertisement advertisement 'The people who set these bombs wanted to hit police while they were investigating,' Genoa's police chief Oscar Fioriolli told reporters, adding that there had been no claims of responsibility. Investigators are leaning towards the theory that the bombs could have been set by the Albanian mafia, some of whose members are currently on trial in Genoa, or by extremists in the anti-globalisation movement. Italian police last week arrested 21 people in connection with violence perpetrated during the Group of Eight summit in Genoa last year.

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Italian 70s history repeating again

by History Student

Tue Dec 10, 2002 12:24

This is just a re-run of the strategy of tension organised by the Italian state
during the late 70s and early 80s, where bombs were set off by elements from the
Italian extreme right, and cells within the intelligence services. The bombs were
used to create a climate of fear and to cut off support for the Left and prevent
them from taking power. The strategy worked beautifully.

This was the time when one of Italy's Prime Ministers was kidnapped and later murdered.
There was a huge manhunt, but strangely the police never discovered that the PM
had been held at a location just a few blocks from one of HQs in Rome.

The whole sorry episode was finally exposed in the early 90s through a series of
investigations carried out by Italian judges that rocked the Italian state and
political system at the time.

Now it's happening again, except this time it is being blamed on the anti-globalisation
protestors. It is quite clearly elements within the State. They have the motive, the
means and the past record to do it.

History teaches us that we learn nothing from history!

ahem RTE (And I´m one to speak what with my glaring mistakes but still you´re a state broadcaster.

by iosaf

Tue Dec 10, 2002 00:07

and I´m only a gobshite.

The Italian state arrested 23 people.
I listed them on this newswire.

Only some of them were detained in custody the others were placed under house arrest.

There are extremists in the Italian family of anti-globalists just as much as there are most definietly extremists in the Italian democracy.

and my most glaring mistakes of the past weeks have been
1. calling the 1999 oil tanker which sank in 100metres off the coast of Brittany "the Diana".
It was of course "the Erika".
For readers info. Diana was estranged and divorced wife of the heir to the british crown who died in a car accident in 1997 in Paris and not an oil tanker that sank off of Britanny polluting that little country which since 1564 has been an integral part of the French nation state.
2. saying that Mrs Robinson and Mr Andrews guaranteed free elections in East Timor in 2000.
Of course they didn´t it was the previous year.
3. Saying Saddam Hussein was dead.
now that was just plain silly wasn´t it?

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Strategy of Tension again? Genoa again!

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