U.S. FBI offers to help probe terrorist attack in Chile

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Chilean Foreign Affairs Minister Heraldo Munoz said Thursday that U.S. ambassador to Chile Michael Hammer offered the help of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI) in delving into Monday's terrorist attack.

"It was a conversation I had yesterday with the U.S. ambassador, in which he confirmed that the FBI offered to help in any investigation the Attorney General deemed appropriate," said Munoz.

On Monday, an explosion injured some 10 people in a subway shopping gallery in the capital Santiago.

The government condemned the explosion, which occurred underneath the city's Military Academy subway station and meters from the Army Military Academy, as "a terrorist act."

"The Foreign Affairs Ministry has nothing to say on the matter, it falls to the pertinent authorities, I imagine the Attorney General," said Munoz. "But the United States expressed its total willingness to offer the help of the FBI."

Taking note of the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the Twin Towers in New York, Munoz said the U.S. "is a country that really understands such matters."

The Attorney General's Office in Chile has said it initially suspects anarchist groups to be behind the explosion Monday.

Since 2005, nearly 200 explosions have been set off around Chile, mostly causing damage to banks and police precincts, and rarely leading to casualties, except when the perpetrators themselves were injured in the incidents.

In August, the U.S., along with Australia, Britain, Belgium and Canada, issued terrorist alerts for their capital cities. Enditem

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