Posted on 12/14/2004 9:17:28 PM PST by Destro
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
Greek tv reporting that Russian diplomats have spoken with the hijackers. Apparently spoke in Russian.
Shades have been drawn inside the bus so visibility into the bus is difficult. Passengers have been moved into the back of the bush.
GREECE.com
http://www.greece.com
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=332002
ABCnews.go.com (AP): "GREEK BUS WITH 27 PEOPLE ON BOARD HIJACKED"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "eporters on the scene heard what sounded like two shotgun blasts about an hour after the bus was taken over at about 6:00 a.m. outside a nightclub. At least two shots had been fired at police who arrived at the scene shortly after the takeover.
"The demand of the perpetrators is for us to give them a bus driver. We are letting police deal with this," Nikos Koutsogeorgas, president of the public bus company, told Athens' Skai radio.
The bus was on a route from the town of Marathon, east of Athens, to the city center when it was hijacked just before dawn at a stop in the suburb of Geraka.
The bus stop was on a highway that was renovated for the Olympic Games and used for the Marathon race, the 26-mile course from ancient Marathon to central Athens."
The police are now waiting out the hijackers, there is a McDonalds right across the street from the Bus.
Somebody is going to get hungry, somebody is going to need to use a bathroom.
OH YONIF CNN FN showing it now
OH MAN I hope Greeks do something about it
I hope they not like the French just surrender that too serious I am hearing off CNN FN they confirm what other Freepers said beside you that gun shot and the terrorist want go airport
NOT GOOD
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Per Greek TV, many of the special units surronding the Bus are the same ones who were trained for olympic security.
CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/12/15/greece.hostages/index.html
"Gunmen seize bus near Athens"
Wednesday, December 15, 2004 Posted: 2:23 AM EST (0723 GMT)
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Another journalist, Anthee Carassavas, told CNN she understood from authorities that the gunmen want to be taken to the airport and flown out of the country."
Speaking Russian, hmmm. Chechens? The scenario is starting to remind me of Basayev.
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=638679
"Greek police surround hijacked bus"
Wed Dec 15, 2004 06:16 AM GMT
By Karolos Grohmann
ATHENS (Reuters) ARTICLE SNIPPET: ""He has told police that there were two of them and that they are Albanians," the source said.
A police spokesman said the gunmen carried hunting rifles and that they were most likely Albanians.
"We cannot say it a hundred percent but it is very likely according to our information," he said."
It is worth noting that the last time this happened the hijackers were shot dead, and one passenger also died.
I think the police have been very methodical in taking control of the situation and isolating the bus. (they were also lucky that these hijackers did not know how to dive a bus after the driver escaped.)
Russian? Albanians?
Hmmm...well, we'll see.
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OHHH COOOL rack it LM
OH OH terrorist are in trouble
I sense smackdown in their future OH MANNNNN thanks for the info ON THATTT
Yep.
Can you say Islamic terroist too
I think so
OPINION-SPECULATION: Probably, BUT I DON'T KNOW until the facts come out.
From Bulgarian news source:
Terrorists That Hijacked Bus In Athens Demanded Airplane To Russia
15 December 2004 | 09:33 | FOCUS News Agency
Athens. Terrorists that have hijacked an intercity bus with 26 people in Athens, Greece, have demanded an airplane to Russia, RIA Novosti reported.
One of the hijackers of the Greek bus in Athens has stated for the Greek radio Alpha that he is Russian and his name is Hassan.
As AFP announced earlier, three armed men have hijacked an intercity bus travelling from the city of Marathon to Athens. The bus driver, who managed to escape, has said for a Greek radio station that there were three hijackers involved, and two of them are armed. Police believes that hijackers are Albanians.
A large security perimeter has been established around the hijacked intercity bus in Athens, Greece.
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=124&ch=0&newsid=53877
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