Friday, January 12, 2007

Breaking: Rocket Fired at U.S. Embassy in Athens

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The New York Times writes:
"A powerful explosion, reportedly caused by a rocket, rocked the American Embassy in Athens Friday morning.

Reuters, quoting the police and embassy officials, said that a rocket had been fired at the complex but that no one was hurt. The private-television station MEGA also reported that the cause was a rocket.

'This was a rocket attack launched from a building across the street,' a senior police official told Reuters. 'It landed inside a toilet on the third floor of the embassy.'

Greek anti-terrorist officers were on the scene.

'This is an act of terrorism. We don’t know where from,' said the Attica police chief, Asimakis Golfis. 'There was a shell that exploded in the toilets of the building.' He said it had been fired from street level...."

Photo Credit: Police officers closed a street outside the U.S. embassy in Athens after a powerful explosion Friday morning. (Thanassis Stavrakis/Associated Press)

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