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| Bomb damages Citibank branch in Athens |
| 2009-03-09 |
| A bomb has exploded outside a Citibank branch in Athens, causing damage but no injuries, police say. The bomb went off at 3am local time on Monday in the Nea Ionia district of the capital, a police statement said. The device had been planted behind the two-storey bank building, which sustained moderate damage. There was no claim of responsibility for the attack, and police said they had received no warning call. Police said the bomb was detonated from very close to the blast site, with the use of electric cables. A police spokeswoman said the attackers used "a medium-sized improvised device", and the damage to the building was not severe. The target of the attack pointed to Greek far-left militant groups, which have become increasingly aggressive following the police shooting of a 15-year-old boy in December - an incident that sparked the country's worst riots in decades. Nobody has been killed so far, but authorities are alarmed that the terrorist tactics appear to demonstrate a desire to carry out indiscriminate slaughter. Last month, police destroyed a car bomb abandoned outside Citibank offices in Athens, which contained enough explosives to crumble a four-storey building. There has been no claim of responsibility. The failed bombing on February 18 followed two gunfire attacks on a private Greek television station and a police station, which caused no injury. A new far-left group called Sect of Revolutionaries claimed responsibility for those two strikes. In January, a far-left group called Revolutionary Struggle claimed responsibility for a shooting on January 5 that seriously wounded a 21-year-old riot policeman in central Athens. The group is best known for firing a rocket-propelled grenade into the US embassy in Athens in 2007. Greece has faced targeted attacks by domestic terrorist groups for decades. But authorities believed the problem had diminished after the arrest of several members of the country's deadliest group, November 17, following a botched bombing in 2002. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #3 Fair retaliation for those loathsome $35.00 overdraft charges? (BTW, that will buy you nearly 35 shares of CITI common... |
| Posted by: borgboy 2009-03-09 18:12 |
| #2 Citibank is owed jointly by USG and a Saudi prince = looong suspects list. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-03-09 09:52 |
| #1 The target of the attack pointed to Greek far-left militant groups,.. Former stock holders shouldn't be excluded either. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-03-09 09:25 |