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Berlusconi in soccer bomb threat

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has told an Italian newspaper he was the target of a suicide bomb plot at a football match.”I am the subject of a direct threat,” Mr Berlusconi said in an interview for the daily paper Libero. “A suicide bomber in a stadium aiming at me.”Mr Berlusconi, who owns soccer club AC Milan and sometimes watches them play, declined to give further details.He said he was concerned that Italy as a nation was at risk of terror attacks.Italy’s military presence in Iraq is seen by many Italians as increasing the threat of a terrorist attack at home. Full Story