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Monday, March 29, 2010    

'November 17'-style terror re-surfacing in Greece

ATHENS — A new insurgency group responsible for a series of bombings has emerged in Greece.   

The so-called Fire Conspiracy Cells has claimed responsibility for a series of bombings in 2010. Greece cracked down on the November 17 organization, which was responsible for the assassination of CIA station chief in Athens Richard Welch in 1975. Last year, authorities found evidence that similiar groups were again active. In March, the left-wing militia, which began its latest offensive with a bomb outside parliament in January, attacked three targets in less than a week.

"This is the first evidence of the bomb crusade we had warned would be launched after our strike on parliament," Fire Conspiracy Cells said.


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Greek police have confirmed some of the claims of the insurgency group. They said Fire Conspiracy Cells appears to be in the early stages of development and has not yet developed means for major attacks.

The insurgency cell has struck a range of targets, including police, banks, and Greek nationalists. On March 19, Fire Conspiracy Cells was said to have detonated a bomb outside a police jail, the office of the nationalist group Golden Dawn and a member of Pakistan's emigrant community.

Fire Conspiracy Cells began claiming responsibility for insurgency operations in 2009. In December, the group was said to have detonated a bomb that damaged a government building in Athens.

After a lull of about five years, left-wing insurgency groups have resumed operations in Greece, targeting largely Western facilities, including embassies and banks. The latest attacks took place during violent protests against austerity measures by the government in Athens.



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