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Small update:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/01/12/athens.blast/index.html

"Blast hits U.S. Embassy compound in Athens"
POSTED: 1:12 a.m. EST, January 12, 2007

ATHENS, Greece (CNN) --


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The only damage captured by television cameras after the attack was a window blown out on an upper floor."


ARTICLE SNIPPT: "The embassy in Athens was the target of a rocket-propelled grenade attack on February 15, 1996. That attack caused minor damage."


138 posted on 01/11/2007 10:15:18 PM PST by Cindy
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A bit of trivia...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3351459,00.html

"Attack on US Embassy compound in Athens
Police uncertain whether attacker used bomb or rocket; no casualties reported. ‘We are investigating the cause of the explosion; we are not ruling anything out,’ senior police official says"
Reuters
Latest Update: 01.12.07, 08:15

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Greece’s biggest domestic security threat, the leftist November 17 guerrilla group, which had in the past killed US and other foreign diplomats in Greece, was dismantled in 2002.

In November last year, Greek riot police fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators marching to the US Embassy in Athens who chanted slogans including “Bush the butcher, out of Iraq” and “The USA is the real terrorist.”"


141 posted on 01/11/2007 10:18:57 PM PST by Cindy
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