Free Republic

GREECE IS A GREAT PLACE to spend one’s Fourth of July. After all, it is the birthplace of democracy. And there is never any shortage of metaphorical fireworks. The pyrotechnics have been especially volatile over the last week. My wife and I experienced both a near-mutiny at sea and a semi-close brush with a terror attack. The mutiny occurred Saturday, when we set out from Athens to our secret island hideaway in the Saronic Gulf. We took the 5 pm Flying Dolphin hydrofoil from Piraeus. After some time, we noticed that the boat was chugging along at a dead crawl,...

ATHENS, Greece - Police captured a 10th suspected member of the deadly November 17 terrorist organization and a newspaper reported that the group had been planning an attack on U.S. and NATO peacekeepers. The daily Eleftherotypia reported Sunday that alleged gunmen of the ultra-left group already in custody told police they had planned to strike NATO peacekeepers based in Kosovo as they traveled through Greece. The newspaper said evidence had been found at November 17 hideouts suggesting the urban guerrillas were gathering information on NATO convoys leaving the northern Greek port of Thessaloniki. November 17 has claimed 22 killings, including...