Bombs defused in Sardinia after Berlusconi-Blair meet

The two devices were discovered yesterday at Porto Rotondo, a village near the prime minister's villa after an anonymous telephone call the evening before.

Berlusconi hosted Blair and his wife Cherie at his holiday mansion in Sardinia for about 24 hours. The two leaders held talks on the situation in Iraq on Tuesday, appealing for a peaceful solution to the crisis in Najaf.

The caller claiming to speak on behalf of the "Proletarian Groups for Communism" contacted a regional newspaper to signal that the two bombs had been planted.

The caller said the first de~ice was in a dustbin, saying the police would have to look for the second, according to the Corriere della Sera newspaper.