Posted on 06/25/2010 11:08:36 PM PDT by citizenredstater9271
ATHENS, Greece - A bomb disguised as a gift exploded inside the Greek law enforcement ministry, killing a close ministerial aide in Greece's highest profile attack in years.
Public Order Minister Michalis Chryssohoidis, who was in his office a few yards (meters) away from the blast, said the package had been intended for him. Pale and visibly shaken, but otherwise unharmed, he told reporters he had "lost a valuable and beloved associate."
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the Thursday night bombing, which killed police officer Giorgos Vassilakis, a 50-year-old father of two. But suspicion fell on radical Greek militant groups opposed to government economic and social policies.
"I express my pain and exasperation — pain and exasperation that every Greek citizen feels over today's terrorist attack," Prime Minister George Papandreou said.
The groups have stepped up attacks in recent years and have been targeted in a recent police crackdown. Although militants often carry out bombings, the vast majority involve small devices planted outside banks, foreign companies or car dealerships late at night and do not cause any injuries.
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Let me guess - it was a wooden horse ...
Beware of Greeks bareing gifts!
1 out of 3 Greeks are government employees
Socialism is what killed Greece after all and now these stupid anarchist kids are resorting to terrorism b/c there too brainwashed to know socialism kills everywhere it comes.
If the Greek police had any brains they’d find the neighborhoods where these kids are living and force them out or arrest all of them. Execute them if they have to.
mam
But suspicion fell on radical Greek militant groups opposed to government economic and social policies
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Are those idjet ‘militant groups’ daft or what?
Greece is thinking about selling some Islands, don’t they get it?
NO MONEY fools!
They are anarchists. They don’t believe in money. They want to see Greece fail so they can start their “anarchist revolution”.
Wonder where they will cash their checks, once they overthrown the establishment?
LOL anarchists and comunists are clueless.
“The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” — Margaret Thatcher
Anarchist, or Socialist? I ran across something a bit ago on BBC that mentioned the Socialist “Party” or “organizations” causing problems there. It might be the groups of “old” trying to take over since the people are suffering. It’s happened many other places throughout History. They are urging the poor to riot against the government in order to effect a Revolution, IMHO. Not that the Anarchists COULDN’T be responsible, or working WITH each other...
Prayers for the aide’s family. I hope they find the ones responsible.
Anarchists and Socialists are two different creatures. Anarchists ARE the useful idiots of the Socialists though.
Up until this incident, I believe the intent of the bombers was, as mentioned, property damage and they have been careful to minimize the potential for injury to people. This, in turn, has permitted a tolerance in pressing these groups by the authorities. Now they have rather deliberately targeted a person and have killed a police officer.
The rules of the game are about to change...
welcome news
And yet, didn’t they still manage to kill a three year old girl?
I’m not familiar with the specific incident you are referring to.
However, until this recent attack, the general modus operandi of these groups was to stage the attacks at locations and times intended to minimize casualties. When casualties did occur, the wounding/killing could been seen as sort of an unintended but unfortunate bit of serendipity/karma.
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