I have heard these tests repeatably in the last few days. The strange thing is that it is just the tones....They don't even bother to anounce that it is a test...Cuts right into whatever is going on...A song...a talk show...whatever...Then no message saying it is a test of the emergency broadcast system.
This is not normal.
Interesting google translation of the la Repubblica newspaper announcing al Qaida's threat against Italy:
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Iraq, threats turned to Italy on situated of To the Qaeda
A ultimatum to the Italy that contains explicit threats is appeared on a situated Internet intestate to the terroristic net To the Qaeda. The document, a lot along, are written in Italian, also are flavored from vary errors to you. In the message, to company of better not specified "the admirer tunisino of the two sheiks", it is written that "a bath of blood similar to the 11 september is to the doors of Italy".
In opening of the message one asserts that "this is a ultimatum to the Italian people" and numerous attacks to the government are launch. More in here in the text, citing these first lines, the anonymous precise drafter however that "they are not threats, but an attempt of porvi the truth like is truly; we are ready to hit targets of new nature with not conventional crews that will cause one massacre of great dimensions ". With the exception of a previous message that contained threats of the terrorist Osama bin Laden translate in Italian this "ultimatum" is appeared on a situated one recorded to name of To the Qaeda (http://alqaédah.dsâ.com//ULTIMATUM.html) and therefore accessible to who of it it only has the control. This enough however not to consider authentication the threat on whose origin is not possible some type of verification.
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Here's the Italian original version for those of you who can discern the Italian:
http://www.repubblica.it/news/ired/ultimora/rep_nazionale_n_763180.html
They've been going off like that on KFI for a good 3 weeks.