Olympics under threat from anarchists who shot Italian nuclear chief and sabotage cables on UK railway



An anarchist group that claimed responsibility for sabotaging railway signal cables in Britain is threatening to wage a 'low-intensity war' against the London Olympics.



The sabotage, in which protective concrete slabs were lifted and the cables set on fire, severely disrupted rail services in and out of Bristol

last Tuesday.



It followed an attack on April 11 in which the same Italian group is believed to have damaged a police communications and radio broadcasting mast on Dundry Hill, on the outskirts of Bristol, forcing stations off the air.



The Informal Anarchist Federation, known as the FAI after its initials in Italian, was also behind a drive-by gun attack two weeks ago in the port of Genoa.



Anarchy: The 325.nostate website used by the FAI

Roberto Adinolfi, the chief executive of a nuclear power firm, was shot in the kneecaps by two men on a motorbike.



British Transport Police yesterday confirmed that at about 4.15am last Tuesday, the signal system was sabotaged at two places on the rail network in Bristol.



Detective Chief Inspector John Pyke said: 'An investigation is under way to establish who is responsible for these attacks.’



He said he was aware the FAI had claimed responsibility and urged anyone who had information to contact police, promising their identities would be protected.

The FAI also made its Olympic threat in a statement on the anarchist website 325.nostate. Police sources said the claim appeared to be ­credible.



Its statement said: 'In the United Kingdom of clockwork control and domestication, we’re some of the 'unpatriotic ones' who find the 2012 Olympics, with the ensuing spectacle of wealth . . . frankly offensive.



'We have no inhibition to use guerrilla activity to hurt the national image and paralyse the economy however we can. Because simply, we don’t want rich tourists – we want civil war.’



The Olympics security bill is set to top £1 billion, with the RAF controlling London’s airspace, troops armed with surface-to-air missiles, and warships on the Thames.



But most of this is to prevent an Al Qaeda-style terrorist 'spectacular,' not the low-key sabotage of groups such as the FAI.



Target: Roberto Adinolfi was shot in the kneecaps

The FAI statement said it 'specifically chose' its Bristol targets to make it difficult for staff from Ministry of Defence installations nearby to get to work, 'as well as military industry companies' such as Raytheon, Thales and QinetiQ on a local business park.



'Missiles on homes' plan gets go-ahead The Government has confirmed it is to deploy surface-to-air missiles on op of residential buildings to protect Olympic sites from an aerial terrorist attack after a dummy run to test the idea. The decision was made after Defence Secretary Philip Hammond and Home Secretary Theresa May took advice from the Chief of the Defence Staff General Sir David Richards and police. Although there is no specific threat to the Olympics, the missile batteries will be deployed by early July. A Whitehall source said: 'The military want to have every tool in the box to defend against all potential threats' About 13,500 servicemen and women - 5,00 more than deployed in Afghanistan - will be on duty during the Games.

'Such actions are a time-honoured method of disturbing the social peace myth,'the FAI said. 'Finance, judicial, communications, military and transport infrastructure will continue to be targets of the new generation of urban low-intensity warfare.'



Italian investigators have said that the FAI's claim to have shot Mr ­Adinolfi, made in a letter to a Milan newspaper, was credible.

The group has threatened further attacks against nuclear industry leaders, saying it wishes to prevent a disaster such as last year’s meltdown at the Fukushima plant in Japan from happening in Europe.

In December, the FAI also sent letter bombs to the Italian tax collection agency Equitalia, blowing off an official’s finger, and to an executive at Deutsche Bank in ­Germany. He was uninjured.



Although a different group, the Earth Liberation Front, claimed it was responsible for last month’s radio mast attack, security experts say both the language and the methods deployed suggest that the two organisations are the same.

