h&s
19th August 2004, 12:21
Bomb found near Berlusconi villa
Italian police have defused a bomb near Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Sardinian holiday villa, hours after a visit by UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Police have denied local reports that a second device was also found in the Porto Rotundo area after a newspaper received the bomb warning.
Italian news agency Ansa said the caller claimed to be from the leftist Proletarian Combatant Groups (NPC).
Mr Blair and his wife Cherie left Sardinia on Tuesday after a short stay.
Italy has been on heightened security alert after a general terror threat from a group linked to al-Qaeda.
The group had threatened to attack Italy if it failed to withdraw its troops from Iraq.
But this bomb was said to have been left by an Italian anarchist organisation which the national Corriere della Sera newspaper says has carried out 20 attacks in the last four years, including small bombings of government party headquarters in Sardinia.
Italian police have defused a bomb near Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Sardinian holiday villa, hours after a visit by UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Police have denied local reports that a second device was also found in the Porto Rotundo area after a newspaper received the bomb warning.
Italian news agency Ansa said the caller claimed to be from the leftist Proletarian Combatant Groups (NPC).
Mr Blair and his wife Cherie left Sardinia on Tuesday after a short stay.
Italy has been on heightened security alert after a general terror threat from a group linked to al-Qaeda.
The group had threatened to attack Italy if it failed to withdraw its troops from Iraq.
But this bomb was said to have been left by an Italian anarchist organisation which the national Corriere della Sera newspaper says has carried out 20 attacks in the last four years, including small bombings of government party headquarters in Sardinia.