"Bombing at Italian school kills 1; Organized crime among suspects" by Elisabetta Povoledo | New York Times, May 20, 2012
Smells like intelligence agency to me.
ROME - A bomb exploded Saturday in front of a school in the southern city of Brindisi, killing a 16-year-old student and wounding at least five others, local officials said, raising fears of a return to the kind of violence that shook Italy decades ago.
You meant the government-guided Gladio campaign?
The explosion occurred near a vocational school named after Francesca Morvillo, a magistrate who was killed with her husband, Giovanni Falcone, an anti-Mafia prosecutor, by a Cosa Nostra bomb on May 23, 1992, an event Italy planned to commemorate on its 20th anniversary.
The bomb went off as students were preparing to enter the school Saturday morning before classes began.
Witnesses described the panic that followed the explosion as “an inferno,’’ while television stations broadcast the eerily silent aftermath, with knapsacks, textbooks, and notebooks strewn across the asphalt in front of the school, pages flapping in the wind.
So.... 911ish.
There were no immediate claims of responsibility, and the Italian authorities said Saturday afternoon that investigations would examine all avenues, including possible links to Sacra Corona Unita - the organized crime syndicate rooted in the southern region of Puglia - and domestic or foreign terrorism.
It's the same f***ing script all the time. That's what happens when you read an intelligence agency operation and mouthpiece called a newspaper.
In recent months, Italy has experienced a level of economic turmoil that has unsettled people, with some linking the government’s austerity measures to a rash of suicides.
Related: A True Greek Tragedy
I blame bankers and their government slaves.
There has also been a rise in violence against tax collection offices - mostly carried out by indebted and frustrated taxpayers - as well as against other institutions, like the military and the aerospace group Finmeccanica, which has been singled out by radical groups that pattern themselves after the domestic terrorists that kept Italy under siege in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Oh, GLADIO is STILL ACTIVE AFTER ALL!
A senior executive for a Finmeccanica-owned company was shot in the leg on May 7, and the group’s chief executive received a written death threat recently.
On Thursday, the government announced that it would redeploy the nearly 25,000 police officers and soldiers that currently protect more than 14,000 potential targets and 550 people, after analyzing the recent spate of attacks throughout the country.
And cui bono? Possibly being moved for another reason we are not being told about in preparation for.... what? I mean, it's not like the paper or government is going to give us a heads-up.
How do you say hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm in Italian?!
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Related: Ex-Italian President: Intel Agencies Know 9/11 An Inside Job
So does pretty much everyone else outside the United States.
Italian Obituaries
And they thought Gladio had been put to rest.
And I may be "conspiracy truthist" -- thank you -- I do not find this to be connected:
"Italy quake leaves 5 dead, thousands homeless; Historic buildings, small towns hit hard by temblor" by Elisabetta Povoledo | New York Times, May 21, 2012
ROME - A strong earthquake struck the northern Italian region of Emilia Romagna Sunday, killing at least five people, injuring dozens, leaving thousands homeless, and damaging historic buildings as well as warehouses and factories, officials said.
The earthquake, which the US Geological Survey said had a magnitude of 6.0, crumbled church roofs and Renaissance-era towers, according to Italian television reports. Large cracks opened in apartment blocks in dozens of small towns....
Many areas of Italy are considered to be at high risk for earthquakes. A quake in 1976 killed nearly a thousand people in Friuli Venezia Giulia, and nearly 3,000 died in the Campania earthquake of 1980.
Three years ago, an earthquake in the area of L’Aquila, in central Italy, killed more than 300 people. While rebuilding has advanced in many villages in the region, the historic center of L’Aquila itself remains a ghost town and there has been public outcry over delays in reconstruction there.
See: Italy's Aftershocks
But in Emilia Romagna, seismic events of this kind have been more rare. Gregori said the last quake of this magnitude in the area was in the 14th century. “For man, seven centuries are a lot, for nature it is nothing,’’ he said....
Aftershocks were felt in the region throughout Sunday....
The earthquake occurred as Italy was still reeling from a bombing Saturday that killed a 16-year-old girl and injured five other students outside a school in the southern port city of Brindisi.
An official investigating the bomb blast in said Sunday that investigators suspected the explosion was an “individual act.’’
And that confirms the intelligence agency operation aspect of the act!
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"Amid aftershocks, Italy tries to tally earthquake damage" New York Times, May 22, 2012
ROME - Firefighters, surveyors, engineers, and volunteers struggled through a series of aftershocks Monday to catalog damage and deter looters one day after an earthquake killed seven people and left more than 6,000 homeless in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy.
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