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Militants claim embassy attack
25/01/2007 14:08 - (SA)
Athens - A far-left militant group claimed responsibility for a recent rocket attack against the US embassy in Athens, and said in a statement published on Thursday the strike was in response to US military involvement in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia.
The Revolutionary Struggle group said the January 12 attack was "our own response to the criminal war on `terrorism' that the US has launched throughout the planet".
The statement, published in the Pontiki weekly newspaper, also blamed Greece's governing conservatives for backing US policies, and accused foreign minister Dora Bakoyannis of "kowtowing to the US".
Police forensic experts were examining the document to verify its authenticity. Militant groups in Greece often send declarations to newspapers as a way of claiming responsibility for attacks.
In the January 12 attack, a rocket-propelled grenade penetrated the outer wall of the embassy building, but caused no injuries and minor damage at the heavily guarded complex.
It was the most daring attack on a Western target in Greece in years, and raised fears that domestic extremism may be growing in a country plagued by left-wing terrorism for a quarter-century since the mid-1970s.
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