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Group claims responsibility for Athens bomb
A little known domestic guerrilla group has claimed responsibility for planting a bomb outside a Citibank branch, Greeceâs official Athens News Agency (ANA) reported on Monday. Police discovered and blew up the bomb, made of two sticks of dynamite, a clock and a detonator left outside the bank in an Athens suburb after an anonymous caller tipped the Eleftherotypia newspaper. Two hours after the controlled explosion, an unidentified caller phoned the same newspaper and claimed responsibility on behalf of the Revolutionary Struggle group, ANA said. The Revolutionary Struggle groupâs only previously claim of responsibility was last September for two bombs in an Athens court complex where one policeman was injured. Security is a top priority for Greece ahead of this summerâs Olympic Games and amid widespread concern in Europe after bomb blasts on Madrid trains killed 200 people on Thursday. Despite dismantling the biggest domestic security threat, radical leftist group November 17, two years ago, bomb squads are regularly called in to defuse home-made explosive devices, left by fringe groups in protest at the Olympic Games in August. Posted by: Fred 2004-03-15 |
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