11:46 AEDT Thu Mar 3 2005
AP - Italy's interior minister blamed anarchists for three explosive devices that caused blasts near a paramilitary police barracks in Genoa and two others that exploded near paramilitary barracks in Milan.
Although no injuries were reported at the two Carabinieri offices, Minister Giuseppe Pisanu told politicians the devices were "meant to kill."
Pisanu, political head of Italy's state police forces, also repeated his assessment in comments to reporters and pledged the country would crack down on the attackers.
An anarchist group linked in the past to a series of parcel bomb explosions in Italy, claimed responsibility for planting the devices in the two cities, authorities said.
The minister, referring to the Italian Mediterranean island, described the bombs as the latest "attempt to link the anarchists with other subversive groups cut from different ideological matrixes, in this case, with the movements of revolutionary Sardinian resistance."