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UPDATE...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1766319/posts?page=168#168

Thanks to a Special Emailer for this update:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070112/ap_on_re_eu/greece_us_embassy

"Blast at U.S. embassy called 'terrorism'"
By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS, Associated Press Writer 8 minutes ago

ATHENS, Greece -

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Police cordoned off streets around the heavily guarded building after the explosion shortly before 6 a.m. The shell struck the third floor and smashed glass in nearby buildings.

Investigators found the device used to fire the rocket shell at a construction site near the embassy.

"This is an act of terrorism. We don't know where from," Attica Police Chief Asimakis Golfis said. "There was a shell that exploded in the toilets of the building ... It was fired from street level.""


677 posted on 01/11/2007 11:04:51 PM PST by Cindy
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http://www.dni.gov/testimonies/20070111_testimony.pdf

"Annual Threat Assessment
of the Director of National Intelligence

January 11, 2007

John D. Negroponte

Director of National Intelligence
Unclassified Statement for the Record
Annual Threat Assessment
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte
11 January 2007"


678 posted on 01/11/2007 11:45:20 PM PST by Cindy
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1766319/posts?page=183#183


http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/international/ticker/detail/Rocket_attack_at_U_S_embassy_in_Athens.html?siteSect=143&sid=7423285&cKey=1168591979000
(REUTERS) (IDS)

January 12, 2007 - 8:49 AM

"Rocket attack at U.S. embassy in Athens"
By Karolos Grohmann

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "ATHENS (Reuters) - Assailants fired a rocket at the U.S. embassy in Athens on Friday but no one was hurt in the attack, which anonymous callers said was staged by Greek leftists, authorities said.

In the most serious attack against the mission in 10 years, the small rocket launched from across the street shattered windows and woke up nearby residents in the central Athens area at 5:58 AM (3:58 a.m. British time).

"There is one or two anonymous phone calls which claim that the Revolutionary Struggle was behind the attack," Public Order Minister Byron Polydoras told reporters outside the embassy.

The leftist guerrilla group has emerged as the most serious domestic threat since the dismantling of the deadly November 17 group in 2002. It claimed an assassination attempt on Greece's Culture Minister last May and a bomb at the Economy Ministry which wounded two people and damaged buildings 13 months ago.

"I am treating this as a very serious attack," U.S. ambassador to Athens, Charles Ries, told reporters outside the mission. "The embassy was attacked in a senseless act of violence. There were no injuries."

Greek police said the rocket was launched from a building across the road from the mission, which is often the target of Greek protests and demonstrations, and landed inside a toilet on the third floor.

"The projectile caused slight damage to the facade's glass and the ceiling," police said in a statement."


683 posted on 01/12/2007 1:16:15 AM PST by Cindy
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