U.S. Facilities Targets of Arson, Vandalism : Retaliation: Fires set, windows smashed in wake of raids on Iraq. Iraqi agents are suspected in some of the attacks.

Authorities today reported attacks on facilities in Germany, India and Italy following the bombing of Iraq. The U.S. military closed its schools in Germany and intense security measures were in force at airports and other places thought likely targets of Iraq-inspired reprisals.

In the northern German city of Kiel, attackers today smashed the windows of the “Kennedy-Haus” American culture center.

Police in Bonn said they suspected arsonists were behind a large blaze in a U.S.-owned Woolworth store. Two other fires of suspicious origin broke out tonight in suburban Bonn’s diplomatic community, police said.

In New Delhi, police said a bomb exploded in a travel office that had an American Airlines sign attached outside. The attack on the office, which was closed, occurred 14 hours after the United States and its allies launched attacks on Iraqi targets.

With that in mind, “we do not rule out the possibility of Iraqi agents (being involved),” said Deputy Commissioner of Police Kanwaljit Deol.

In Milan, self-styled members of an anti-war group hurled firebombs against an international bookstore and a British school overnight. Police said responsibility for the bombs were claimed by a previously unknown “Committee for Direct Action Against War” in a call to a radio station.

In Washington, Sen. Orrin G. Hatch of Utah said terrorists had made at least four attacks on American installations abroad since the bombing began overnight of Iraq but in at least two of the cases, the incidents were not considered attacks and occurred before the Iraq attack.

In none of the cases were injuries reported.

Hatch, the hard-line Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, this morning identified the targets as a U.S. Information Service library in Quito, Ecuador; the U.S. consulate in Lahore, Pakistan; an unspecified site in Berlin and a Harvard University villa in Florence, Italy.

In addition, Hatch said, shots were fired at the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem. Police in Jerusalem initially said three shots had been fired but later today said they could not confirm that. Hatch had no damage reports from any of the attacks but said order had been restored at the consulate in Lahore.

A check with authorities showed the Ecuador incident involved the tossing of a grenade on Tuesday; that a gas container had been set ablaze Wednesday morning in front of the Harvard University Center for the Italian Renaissance in a Florence suburb; and the Lahore incident involved 200-300 students marching past the facility this afternoon, with some throwing bricks over the wall. Police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd.

Police in Berlin said they have no information on any attack in their city.

At a burial service today in Tunisia for two top PLO aides assassinated Monday, an associate of Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat said his group opposed “all acts of terrorism.”

Arafat’s political counselor, Bassam Abu Sharif, condemned the attack on Iraq by the U.S.-led multinational forces, but said a call by the PLO’s Executive Committee for forces to resist “American aggression” did not extend to terrorist attacks against the United States and Europe.