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BOMBS NEAR BLAIR'S VILLA Italian police have found two bombs near the Sardinian holiday villa of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi just hours after a visit by Tony Blair. Police launched a hunt for the devices after a local left-wing group said it had planted them. Blair and his wife Cherie had left Sardinia a few hours earlier after a brief stay at Berlusconi's luxury retreat. The island was under heightened security patrols. A warning was made in a phone call to Sardinian newspaper L'Unione Sarda late last night by someone claiming to be from the radical NPC group which is active on the island. According to Italian newpsaper Corriere della Sera, the NPC is an "anarcho-separatist" group. It said the group had given the location of one bomb, in a large bin near the centre of the tourist town Portorotondo, one kilometre from Berlusconi's Villa Certosa, and said it had planted another. "The other one - we're not telling you, go and find it. It's for Berlusconi," the voice said, according to the Corriere. The Corriere said the one bomb discovered had been set to explode at 2 a.m. Police said it was found some 10 minutes after the warning was received. The second bomb was discovered soon afterwards. The NPC group has claimed responsibility for about 20 attacks since 2000 against political party headquarters, trade unions and night clubs popular with VIPs. In August 2003, it also claimed to have set a hoax bomb at Porto Cervo, another village near Berlusconi's villa.

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