Bush fails to protect our Greek embassy from attack

Thorgrim · 01-12-2007, 12:59 AM

ATHENS (Reuters) - An explosion ripped through the U.S. embassy compound in central Athens on Friday, a police source said.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articl...-EXPLOSION.xml

I call for Bush to resign for his failed war on terror

Nonphixion · 01-12-2007, 04:00 AM

Full Article

Attackers fire rocket at US embassy in Athens

Fri Jan 12, 2007 2:47am ET

By Karolos Grohmann
ATHENS (Reuters) - Unknown attackers fired a rocket at the U.S. embassy in Athens on Friday but no one was hurt, Greek and U.S. officials said.

Greek anti-terrorist officers were on the scene of the early morning attack, which shattered windows and woke up nearby residents in the central Athens area.

"I am treating this as a very serious attack," U.S. ambassador to Athens, Charles Ries, told reporters outside the mission. "The embassy was attacked in a senseless act of violence. There were no injuries."

Greek police said the rocket was launched from a building across the road from the embassy building and landed inside a toilet on the third floor.

"The projectile caused slight damage to the facade's glass and the ceiling," police said in a statement.

Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyanni rushed to the embassy to meet Ries and condemn the attack. "Such acts have cost us dearly in the past," she told reporters. "The government will do everything in its power so they are not repeated."

It was the most serious attack against the mission since February 1996, when assailants fired a rocket at the back of the compound, causing minor damage to three diplomatic vehicles and some surrounding buildings.

Dozens of police cars surrounded the embassy and hundred of police cordoned off all roads in the area, including a major boulevard in front of the mission. Police helicopters hovered overhead.

Local residents called in to state television saying they had felt the explosion, which shattered some windows. "It was a huge explosion, the ground shook. I woke up and rushed to the balcony to see what happened," a local resident, who was not identified, told Greek state TV.

Greek protesters often march to the U.S. embassy and the heavily-guarded building, surrounded by a 3-meter (9-feet)-high steel fence, has guards are posted at every entrance and at street corners around it.

Greece's biggest domestic security threat, the leftist November 17 guerrilla group claimed responsibility for the 1996 rocket attack. It has also killed U.S. and other foreign diplomats in Greece, but was dismantled in 2002.

In November last year, Greek riot police fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators marching to the U.S. embassy in Athens who chanted slogans including "Bush the butcher, out of Iraq" and "The USA is the real terrorist".

Phantom · 01-12-2007, 10:01 AM

What exactly should Bush have done to protect the embassy from attack?

ballz2wallz · 01-12-2007, 10:03 AM

Originally Posted by Phantom

What exactly should Bush have done to protect the embassy from attack?

Been a human shield duh!

Stylerod · 01-12-2007, 11:16 AM

Another quality thread by the shallowest person in the forums.

Threads like this by the most active thread creator here is what will keep Libertylounge.net from being a successful forum.

Please Thorgrim, respond with your favorite phrase. Post reported

Scrum · 01-12-2007, 11:38 AM

Originally Posted by Stylerod

Another quality thread by the shallowest person in the forums.

Threads like this by the most active thread creator here is what will keep Libertylounge.net from being a successful forum.

Please Thorgrim, respond with your favorite phrase. Post reported

Actually it's posts like this that bring down the forum.

Stylerod · 01-12-2007, 11:40 AM

Originally Posted by Scrumtralecent

Actually it's posts like this that bring down the forum.

If you don't like that I pointed out this thread was created just to troll, I don't know what to tell you. It's anti Bush so it's all good to you.

ballz2wallz · 01-12-2007, 11:41 AM

Thorgrim · 01-12-2007, 11:45 AM

Anyone have a particular presidential candidate they think could work with anti-terrorist forces in Greece in a competant way to better protect Americans?

Stylerod · 01-12-2007, 11:45 AM

Maybe I should start a new thread about why Clinton wasn't impeached for his failure to protect US embassies

In the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings (August 7, 1998), 257 people were killed and over 4,000 wounded in simultaneous car bomb explosions at the United States embassies in the East African capital cities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya.

I'm sure Thor and Scrum would agree that he should have stepped down afer that. I mean over 4000 dead or wounded

Sweet Jesus, talk about failure to protect....

ballz2wallz · 01-12-2007, 11:50 AM

Originally Posted by Thorgrim

Anyone have a particular presidential candidate they think could work with anti-terrorist forces in Greece in a competant way to better protect Americans?

Nancy Pelosi...she'd make a better human shield. One look at her and they'd run away screaming in agony.

Scrum · 01-12-2007, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by Stylerod

Maybe I should start a new thread about why Clinton wasn't impeached for his failure to protect US embassies

I'm sure Thor and Scrum would agree that he should have stepped down afer that. I mean over 4000 dead or wounded Sweet Jesus, talk about failure to protect....

Go ahead.

If I don't like the thread I just won't post in it.

Scrum · 01-12-2007, 12:01 PM

Originally Posted by ballz2wallz

Nancy Pelosi...she'd make a better human shield. One look at her and they'd run away screaming in agony.

zomg Cheney shot a guy in the face....

Stylerod · 01-12-2007, 12:03 PM

Originally Posted by Scrumtralecent

Go ahead.

If I don't like the thread I just won't post in it.

Na, I'll leave creating worthless Troll threads to your buddy thor.

JaJae · 01-12-2007, 12:06 PM

Feel free to remake this thread without the partisan bickering. Thorgrim, if you have anything insightful to add to the first post you can PM me and I'll edit/clean this thread up.

You guys know better than this.

Sir John · 09-05-2008, 02:29 PM

It's hard for Bush to protect anything because he's trying to fight everybody, Iraq,Iran, Korea,Afganistan,China,Russia.... I don't think he gets the fact that the more he spends on war, the more the Dollar declines and we're getting owned
by China. The very sad par is that it will take decades over he's out of office to
recover from this mess, if we do at all.