Picture this if you will, a few ex-terrorists relaxing with beers reminiscing about the good old days. When did we blow that Nike plant Jose? was that 98 or 99, I don't know Bob, but that was a good un'. (Well, if you'd blown it on 1-1-00, you could remember the date)

The story in its entirety:

Nike warehouse bombed in Greece Copyright ) 1999 Nando Media Copyright ) 1999 Associated Press

ATHENS, Greece (December 5, 1999 7:55 a.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - A homemade bomb caused serious damage Sunday at a warehouse used to store goods from the U.S. sportswear firm Nike, police said. No one was hurt.

An arsonist group calling itself Philiki Eteria claimed responsibility for the pre-dawn attack in the Athens suburb of Paleo Faliro. Police said the explosion was caused by a gasoline bomb.

Dozens of small arson and bomb attacks occur each year in the capital. Most are claimed by fringe leftist or anarchist groups, targeting the offices or cars of government agencies and large companies.

The little-known group that claimed Sunday's attack takes its name from the Philiki Eteria, or Friendly Society, an organization founded in 1814 with the aim of liberating Greece from Ottoman occupation through armed revolt.

-- Guy Daley (guydaley@bwn.net), December 05, 1999

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don't you think this might be more related to clinton's latest trip and the meeting of that globalist group (can't remember their name) that just took place in greece. remember the protests?

-- tt (cuddluppy@nowhere.com), December 05, 1999.

[This story ran in the ATHENS NEWS just prior to Bill Clinton's recent visited to Greece...]

Marchers will be everywhere,
protest groups tell Clinton

Demonstrations kick off as police launch unprecedented security operation for US president

By Derek Gatopoulos
THE MORE marches planned, the more police step up security, and the more demonstrators intensify their protests.
The cycle began in earnest last night with the first of many rallies to the United States embassy, taking place in protest at President Bill Clintons visit to Greece next weekend. The demonstrators yesterday were to deliver a 'summons' for Clinton to be represented at tomorrows open-air mock trial in Syntagma Square for alleged war crimes against Yugoslavia during Natos 78-day bombing campaign during this years Kosovo crisis.
'It will be a symbolic trial based on a document signed by 100 leading Greek lawyers and supreme court judges,' said protest organiser Thanassis Paphilis. 'There will be witnesses portrayed by actors and people (demonstrators) present will be the jury.'
Paphilis, a former Greek Communist Party LQ, heads a pacifist group which together with trade union factions, womens groups, actors, writers and others plans to stage protest rallies in Athens every day this week. Rallies are also planned in more than 30 other towns. 'There will be protests everywhere. From Thrace to the Peloponnese and from Crete to Epirus, there will not be any part of Greece where demonstrations will not be held,' Paphilis said
The week of protests, expected to drown out late government efforts to promote the importance of the Clinton visit for Greece, is likely to revive widespread hostility towards the US government witnessed during the Nato bombing. A flier advertising yesterdays rally read: 'Murderer of the Balkans get out. Clinton, you are unwanted. Greece is no protectorate.'
The Greek Communist Party (JJE), Left Coalition and the splinter Socialist DIKKI party as well as the governing Pasok partys own youth wing have all pledged support for the protests but have promised precautions to ensure the rallies do not turn violent. The Clinton visit 'will spur the anti-imperialist movement in Greece,' JJE leader Aleka Papariga said yesterday. Meanwhile, Left Coalition leader Nikos Constandopoulos poured scorn on what he described as Premier Costas Simitis calls for 'good behaviour' during Clintons stay.
Pasok and the main opposition New Democracy party have reportedly instructed their members not to attend demonstrations. On the day of Clintons arrival on Saturday, at least three separate rallies have been planned in central Athens despite unprecedented measures by Greek police and US officials.
Police are staging their biggest-ever security operation for a visiting official - considerably larger than those mounted for US President George Bush in 1991 and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in 1984. Some 7,000 officers, from Greek police and other law enforcement divisions, will take part in the operation, many details of which were reached at a meeting late on Friday of Greek public order officials and visiting FBI officers.
On Wednesday, traffic police will begin enforcing a parking ban along the main section of Athens coastal road and all adjacent side streets, and along the route of Clintons motorcade. Traffic in the area will be stopped for Clintons arrival Saturday and again several hours later, when his wife Hillary and daughter Chelsea arrive on a separate flight.
The choking restrictions have only added to the prevailing bad feeling. Private television stations and newspapers routinely refer to Clinton as the 'Planet Boss'.
'It is natural for the American president on his trips abroad... to be followed by a large (security) outfit. But making the hosts feel like strangers in their own city is going too far,' the Athens daily Ta Nea wrote this week.
With the tension escalating, Clintons schedule will not be announced until Wednesday and even then some details may not be made public. Demonstrators, too, are keeping their cards close to their chest. Asked what protesters will do on Saturday when police block their route to the US embassy, Paphilis replied: 'Well just have to see what happens.'

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-- John Whitley (jwhitley@inforamp.net), December 05, 1999.