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RALEIGH, N.C. -- Vandals damaged three military recruiting centers in the Triangle this week in what appeared to be a war protest.

Authorities said someone spray-painted windows at two Durham centers and hurled a rock through the window at a center in Raleigh on Tuesday night. The vandals also defaced doors and sidewalks at the locations.

The incidents were discovered on Wednesday morning when employees arrived for work, officials said.

An e-mail message sent to media outlets Wednesday called the actions a protest against U.S. involvement in Iraq.

"The poverty and exploitation of the economy at home fuels the brutality of occupation abroad, overseen by bosses and politicians indifferent to the suffering and havoc wreaked upon all sides," the e- mail message said. "From Iraq to North Carolina, resistance will continue until the system of war and exploitation that endangers us all is dismantled."

The return address of the e-mail message indicated that it came from Adrian Anderson. Requests for an interview by The News & Observer of Raleigh did not get a response.

No arrests had been made as of late Wednesday.

National Guard spokesman Capt. Matt Handley noted the irony of vandalism at the Guard center in Raleigh while the military is protecting the right to free speech.

"That's why we have a military, to uphold the Constitution," Handley said.