American embassy in Greece bombed-JUST IN

[eltrevo]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6254399.stm

There's only a tiny morsel of info, but this is still big.

[AMERICARULES]

Hopefully there weren't any injuries. Also hoping against all hope that this was just a tragic accident and not another terrorist attack.

[Last Roman]

Hopefully there weren't any injuries. Also hoping against all hope that this was just a tragic accident and not another terrorist attack.

it was a terrorist attack, seeing as how rockets crashing into embassies aren't usually an accident. But most blame a far-leftist terrorist group.

[Chocolatemouse]

it was a terrorist attack, seeing as how rockets crashing into embassies aren't usually an accident. But most blame a far-leftist terrorist group.

They are sometime
usualy american army call it a friendly shoot

[wilpuri]

Only those ignorant of Greece's politics would blame the Muslims on this one. Its all about the context.

[SickBoy13]

I would like to believe that too, but embassies don't have a habit of blowing up randomly, especially representing the USA.

[Sit down, fat dog]

I would like to believe that too, but embassies don't have a habit of blowing up randomly, especially representing the USA.

What? If I was to select an embassy to blow up randomly then I was certainly put money on it being an American one.

they bomb us, we bomb someone back. The world keep turnin'

And if this is in retaliation for the raid on the Iranian consulate?

[AMERICARULES]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe...ast/index.html

Would you believe that! No injuries initially reported. Wow! But that still doesn't tell us anything about why the explosion happened.

[RZZZA]

they bomb us, we bomb someone back. The world keep turnin'

[turd]

the politically correct answer:
islam had nothing to do with it, and even if it did, it didn't.

[Erik]

the politically correct answer:
islam had nothing to do with it, and even if it did, it didn't.

I just heard some leftist group claimed the attack.

Funny how people always jump up and accuse Muslims.

[bigfootedfred]

Police said a rocket was fired from street level into the front of the embassy, landing in a toilet.

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 attack is more likely the work of a left-wing radical group than al-Qaeda.

You people are really jumpy....

The US embassy is one of the most fortified and tightly guarded buildings in the region and is frequently the target of protests in a country brimming with potent anti-Americanism, the BBC's Malcolm Brabant says.

In February 1996, it suffered minor damage when unknown attackers - thought to be leftist radicals - fired a rocket at it.

it's not surprising with all the anti-American feeling around at the moment.

they bomb us, we bomb someone back. The world keep turnin'

So your going to bomb Greece now?

[Princeps]

the politically correct answer:
islam had nothing to do with it, and even if it did, it didn't.

Funny how people always jump up and accuse Muslims.

ZING!

[danzig]

I just heard some leftist group claimed the attack.

Funny how people always jump up and accuse Muslims.

Let me ask you this, if you heard "airstrike hits suspected terrorist camp" on the news...what would your first assumption be on who was involved in the airstrike? This is why when someone hears western embassy and bomb the first thing that pops into ones head is muslim extremist.

[Erik]

Let me ask you this, if you heard "airstrike hits suspected terrorist camp" on the news...what would your first assumption be on who was involved in the airstrike? This is why when someone hears western embassy and bomb the first thing that pops into ones head is muslim extremist.

I didn't run to a keyboard to accuse someone before I heard more details.
Preconceptions are unavoidable, acting on them isn't.

They invented homosexuality and Democracy? whoa those guys were on a roll...

Democracy started out as a trick for two gay men to convince a straight guy to have a ménage à trois with them.

[danzig]

I didn't run to a keyboard to accuse someone before I heard more details.
Preconceptions are unavoidable, acting on them isn't.

Expressing what ones thoughts are on an event is hardly acting on it. Now if someone saw the story and ran out and killed a muslim then yeah but the fact is a large % of these types of events are indeed tied into Islamic extremist. It is natural that the first thought that pops into ones head is that they are behind it and I fail to see what the difference is if one thinks that and one says it outloud. Remember we are talking about Islamic extremist, not your average muslim here so doth protest too much.

[Markas]

My moneys on commies. Possibly led by Che Guevara and Marshall Tito.

[Idwayreth]

So your going to bomb Greece now?

yes we will, i for one am all for it.

[dragases1453]

yes we will, i for one am all for it.

I hope you're joking...

How about USA and UK paying compensation for the atrocities they inflicted on Greece with the well-known support for the military junta? Saying "sorry" as Bill Clinton did just doesn't cut it. I think that several billion dollars to the Greeks, an official and loud and clear apology and also informing the NATO member and the huge receiver of US military aid, Turkey, that there have to be an end to the occupation of parts of Cyprus would severely decrease the amount of exploding devices being propelled towards the US embassy in Athens.

Yeah, that's not going to happen. I know.

And i'm with you friend...I'll not justify this act because i hate terrorism attacks...but there is a reason if it's happened...USA and NATO betrayed Greece during the war of Cyprus to keep their bases in Turkey...i think this is the key for these attacks..

[Sit down, fat dog]

They invented the gays.