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Defense & Foreign Affairs Special Analysis - January 19, 2007, Friday Analysis. By GIS Staff. Reliable sources indicate that the Chinese-built RPG-7 rocket-propelled grenade fired at the US Embassy in Athens on January 12, 2007, was supplied to the leftist Greek terrorist organization, Revolutionary Struggle, by the Albanian jihadist -linked group, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA/UCK). The confirmation of the link demonstrates the growing linkages between anti-Western leftist terrorist groups and anti-Western Islamist jihadi groups, and there is some suggestion that the reappearance of Revolutionary Struggle may have been prompted directly by support received from the cash-rich KLA. The KLA...

The missile fired at the US Embassy by Revolutionary Struggle last month reached Greece via Kosovo, police sources told Kathimerini yesterday in what authorities believe is a breakthrough in their investigation. Greek and US security agents have discovered that the rocket-propelled grenade was removed from an army warehouse in Albania in 1994 and taken to Kosovo, where it came into the possession of an arms smuggler. Authorities believe that the arms trader held on to the weapon until 2001 and they are investigating his contacts and dealings in the hope they will find out who smuggled the rocket into Greece....

Albanian terrorists take Greek bus hostages My Sat news is reporting 2 Albanians took an unknown number of hostages on the bus. Bus driver escaped. A wave of such terror attacks hit Greece in the 90s. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ned=us&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Bus+hostages+Greece&lr=&sa=N&tab=nw

A bus filled with passengers has been seized by gunmen in Greece. Police are surrounding the vehicle in the Athens suburb of Marathon and have said that more than two dozen passengers are on board. Initial reports suggested that the two armed hijackers were Albanians, but they have now reportedly identified themselves as Russians. The bus driver and ticket collector managed to jump out of the bus and alerted police when the incident started, while a female passenger also escaped. The gunmen have said that if a new driver is supplied and they are taken to Athens airport, they will...

Running on Fox News now, U.S. agents are armed for pre-Olympic training, but will not be allowed to protect U.S. Olympians during the actual games. This is sounding more and more like the Munich Olympics, when the German government told Golda Meir, 'we don't need no stinkin' Israeli help, we can handle the situation.'