[Prishtina-E] Greece is second on US list for terrorism

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>From: "Nikoll A Mirakaj" <albania at EROLS.COM>
>To: "a" <alb-information at egroups.com>, "t" <alb-info-talk at egroups.com>
>Subject: [alb-information] Greece is second on US list for terrorism
>Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 19:41:49 -0700
>
>THE TIMES (London)
>May 4 2000
>
>Greece is second on US list for
>terrorism
>
>FROM JAMES PRINGLE IN ATHENS
>
>GREECE reacted angrily yesterday to a report that
>ranked it second to Colombia for anti-American terrorist
>attacks in 1999.
>
>The US State department report names the November 17
>group, which has been active for 25 years but has never
>had a member arrested. In 1975 it assassinated the top
>CIA official in Greece, Robert Welch, and since then has
>killed 22 people and injured 70. The dead include four
>American officials and one British, along with Greek
>industrialists.
>
>Last year a rocket-propelled grenade exploded in the
>German embassy in Athens, in the next room to the
>ambassador. The attack, a week after a similar one on the
>Dutch ambassador, came at the start of Nato's bombing
>of Yugoslavia over Kosovo. A majority of Greeks identify
>with the Serbs, with whom they share the Orthodox
>religion.
>
>The US State Department spends more on diplomatic
>security in Athens, the capital of a Nato ally, than
>anywhere else in the world. Western diplomats speak of a
>"culture of impunity" in Athens.
>
>The State Department report, Patterns of Global
>Terrorism, blames the problem on the "absence of strong
>public government leadership and initiatives to improve
>police capabilities".
>
>It is believed that November 17 has close links with a
>left-wing sector of the ruling Panhellic Socialist
>Movement, Pasok. Old hardline leftists feel that attacks
>against "capitalist targets" are justified, in spite of Greece's
>ever-closer integration into Western Europe.
>
>Yesterday a leading newspaper, Kathimerini, said the US
>report was "openly aggressive and unreal". "A
>demonstrator launching a Molotov cocktail is legally
>responsible for his actions, but he is not a terrorist," it said.
>Kathimerini noted that Greece had a problem with the
>authorities' failure to break up November 17, "but this is
>far from justifying Washington accusing the present and
>previous government of inertia, tardiness and reluctance to
>fight terrorism".



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