PITTSBURGH -- A military recruit center in Shadyside was the target of vandalism overnight.

U.S. Marines spent part of Wednesday putting up flags, hanging posters and nailing plywood after vandals smashed windows and spilled paint all over the center.

Police said they don't know for sure if the recruitment center was targeted by anti-war activists, but said it was the only place on Ellsworth Avenue that was damaged.

The center was the target of an anti-war protest hours before vandals struck.

The Pittsburgh Organizing Group, an anti-war organization, has on its Web site a posting from protesters who said they peacefully rallied outside the office Tuesday evening.

The group, which describes itself as radical, also said on its Web site "the U.S. military is a deadly spider moving along a well-designed web, dependent on an intricate set of relationships and circumstances to continue ensaring its victims."

Recruitment centers in Oakland have been a popular target of protesters in previous months, but police said this is the first time the relatively new Shadyside location has seen any crime.

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