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Grenade Attack on U.S. Embassy

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Posted on Jan 11, 2007
Athens Embassy
news.bbc.co.uk

The United States Embassy in Athens, frequently assaulted by radical groups, was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade Thursday. The State Department says no one was injured by the explosion.


BBC:

Police said a small rocket-propelled grenade or similar device was fired into the front of the embassy.

Fire engines and police cordoned off the area around the fortified building. The US State Department said there were no injuries.

The BBC correspondent in Athens says the US embassy is often the target of small-scale attacks by radical groups.

Many of the attacks are carried out by small groups following in the footsteps of the disbanded November 17 leftist group, says the BBC’s Malcolm Brabant.

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By mite, January 13, 2007 at 1:33 pm Link to this comment
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By Spinoza, January 12, 2007 at 2:29 pm Link to this comment
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To bad it was not a bigger bomb so that some people will take notice that the USA is not liked.

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By DennisD, January 12, 2007 at 11:46 am Link to this comment
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Could this be Iran’s response for the raid on their embassy in Iraq. Or one of the dozens of other countries that now despise us because of Bu$h Inc.

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By trantieungoc, January 12, 2007 at 11:16 am Link to this comment
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This must be a “friendly fire”.

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By Moe Hare, January 12, 2007 at 9:00 am Link to this comment
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“The rocket landed in a toilet on the third floor of the building, which also houses Ambassador Charles Ries’s office.

“I am treating this as a very serious attack,” Mr Ries said. “The embassy was attacked in a senseless act of violence.”

It would really have been a diplomatic crisis, if Ries had been taking a crap in that toilet!

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