A policeman has been set on fire as anti-Iraq war protests erupted into a riot outside the EU summit in Athens. Around 30 demonstrators were arrested after a mob broke away from a peaceful anti-war rally of 5,000 people and attacked police in the Greek capital. Police responded by firing tear gas and chasing hooded protesters though the narrow streets. Another group of protesters threw red paint at riot police, about 300 metres away from where leaders from across Europe gathered to confirm the enlargement of the group. Demonstrators set fire to banks in central Athens and smashed windows. Outside the British Embassy, youths tore up paving stones and hurled them at police guarding the building. A large banner reading "Killers, Imperialists" was hung over the offices of British Airways. Political commentators say the violence will embarrass Greece's Socialist government, which is midway through an EU presidency already troubled by Europe's divisions over the Iraq war. Rally organisers targeted their anger at Tony Blair, Spain's premier Jose Maria Aznar and other EU prime ministers who supported the war in Iraq.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
