Since When Did Terrorism & Robbing Banks Become A New Resistance? (VIDEO)

A letter written by the three, of the four, suspects who last week were arrested in Northern Greece for a double armed bank heist, and who are suspected of being part of the notorious "Conspiracy of Cell" terrorist organization, was published on iefimerida on Wednesday, and which -in our opinion here at HellasFrappe- only sends chills up and down one's spine. The letter which is signed by Nikos Romanos, Andreas-Dimitris Bourzoukos and Yannis Michailidis reads:

    "We want to say a few words from the cells where we are being detained as prisoners to state our aims and intentions in order to clarify the situation regarding the latest events. As Anarchists we consider the choice of a bank robbery as a conscious choice of resistance. Our act was not carried out for personal enrichment. The attack on the temples of the capital is part of our overall revolutionary action.
    Concerning our torture by the forces of repression, we do not want it to be our point of victimization. We did not expect anything different from the enemies of freedom. Let's not forget how many people have been crushed in police stations and prisons. Let our signs of torture become another occasion to transmute anger into action.
    Against the institutional representatives of justice, our attitude will be intransigent and uncompromising.
    WE WILL NOT COOPERATE – WE WILL NOT APOLOGIZE
    LONG LIVE ANARCHY
    The Anarchists
    Nikos Romanos
    Andreas-Dimitris Bourzoukos
    Yannis Michailidis

Meanwhile, two USB sticks of great interest were discovered by police officials at the apartment of 19 El Alamein Str in Maroussi, which authorities claim was rented about a month ago by Nikos Romanos.

Romanos, who was a key witness in the trial of the murder of Alexis Grigoropoulos, the teenager who was shot dead by a policeman in December 2008, reportedly used a false identity card, under the name Constantinos Giakoumopoulos, to rent out a second apartment in Halandri, according to police. Police also said discovered plastic bags identical to the ones in which an explosive device planted in The Mall had been transported last month.

Authorities say that everything indicates that the apartment was being used as a meeting point of this specific core, but not the hideout containing their weapons. Apart from the aforementioned apartment, the suspects also rented another place in Kallithea as well as in Northern Greece. They noted that the fingerprints of two of the suspects had been found in two of these apartments – or in the Athens neighborhoods of Kallithea and Halandri –. More specifically, the fingerprints of Andreas Bourtzoukos, 23, were found in the Halandri flat, and those of Nikos Romanos, 20, in a flat in Kallithea.

That apartment was searched by police late on Sunday night, according to sources who said the property bore signs of a break-in, possibly by members of the group attempting to destroy evidence.

(An unknown organization claiming to be the result of a partnership between anarchist groups “Wild Freedom" and “Instigators of Social Explosions” claimed responsibility for The Mall bombing at the end of last month.)

The other two robbery suspects arrested last Friday – Yiannis Michailidis, 25 and Dimitris Politis, 22 – had already been linked to Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire. Warrants for their arrests had been issued in 2011. The pair were transferred to a specially designed courtroom at Attica’s high-security Korydallos Prison where 17 people are on trial for membership of the group.

Meanwhile Athens public prosecutor Panagiota Fakou launched an investigation into claims that all four suspects were beaten while in police custody. The intervention followed complaints by relatives after photographs of the four suspects, bearing heavy bruises to their faces, were published by police. Indications that some of the photographs were doctored, to conceal the presence of police officers’ hands constraining the suspects or to tone down the bruising, provoked strong criticism. Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias said the injuries were sustained during the suspects’ arrest but promised “merciless punishment” if any officers are found to have abused the suspects in custody. He said the photos had been doctored so the suspects would be recognizable to the public. Leftist opposition SYRIZA and Democratic Left, the junior coalition partner, called for a probe into how the detainees sustained their injuries. Romanos said he would not sue the police, claiming to be a “prisoner of war.” “I want the abuse I suffered to prick citizens’ consciences.”

Sources - Newspost, ProtoThema, iefimerida

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PROVOCATION - SYRIZA MP Says Imia Should Be Called Kardak & Belongs To Turkey!

MP for the main opposition SYRIZA party Naso Theodoridis, who has in the past provoked national sentiment on issues associated with the FYROM issue, made a striking comeback, but this time this anti-Hellene went wayyyy overboard.  He actually had the audacity to refer to the islet of Imia as ... Kardak!

On January 31st, 2013, and on the 17th anniversary commemorating the tragic events of 1996 and the loss of three Navy officers at Imia  (or the crew from that fatal helicopter crash from the frigate Navarino), Naso Theodoridis, whose postings are envied by Turkish propaganda officials, not only disputed the "Greekness" of Imia, but he also proposed that Greece should share the Aegean with Turkey!

In fact he literally sided with Turkey and suggested that the Greek military stop chasing after Turkish fighters that violate Greek airspace! And what's more... This m@kaka even characterized Greece's right to extend its territorial waters to 12 miles as being "preposterous"! 

Editor's Note - WHO in their right mind would vote for SYRIZA when this party has an agenda to divide the Aegean? Who can respect a political party when it does not have the decency to respect the memory of three dead soldiers who died to defend the Greek flag? Friends... This is why SYRIZA refuses to address any national issues and always turns the conversation around to the subject of the economy. It is not in its interests to be upfront about Greek national issues because their positions on our national issues are treasonous and they are afraid of being exposed. The more people press them about Greek national issues the better, because their true colors will eventually come to the forefront. Their ideology and rhetoric -aside from being dangerous- is poisonous. If they admire and respect Turkey so much, then why just not immigrate across the Aegean? Why remain in Greece? Aei Sixtir!

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BUSTED - 4 Spy Turkish Interceptors Spotted Across Dodecanese Islands

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Not one, not two, or three but FOUR electronic surveillance and wiretapping bases have apparently been set up by the Turkish intelligence agency MIT across from a number of Greek islands (or more precisely across from Rhodes, Kos, Chios and Samos). According to an article that was featured on a Turkish website, following the full integration of the "Department of Electronic Systems" (part of the Turkish General Staff of the Armed Forces - T / GEED-), the Turkish intelligence agency MIT began a new unit titled "Electronic and Technical Information" (HBI: Elektronik ve Teknik İstihbarat) which basically has its role to gather information in areas in the Greece, the Balkans, Cyprus and even as far as Asia.

The facilities look like normal buildings, but in all reality they are apparently closely monitoring the activities of the Greek Armed Forces! At the same time MIT is using these facilities to listen in on mobile telephone users, and even detect submarines. (It should be noted that during most military exercises, Greek authorities use mobile phones to synchronize operations. The phones apparently give the military flexibility in communication and a false sense of security).

The former "Electronic Systems" Unit of the Turkish Armed forces actually operated a total of 13 such facilities and were once the "deep ear" or "Turkish Echelon" as it is called, of Ankara, but are now operated by MIT and have thus been upgraded. The number of facilities expanded as well. From these bases, Turkish intelligence officials intercept signals and communications in the Aegean, but are also capable of collecting data from Cyprus, the Balkans and even the Caucasus region.

The equipment at these bases provides high quality services and practically "sweeps" across the Greek mainland.

Nothing is safe anymore in terms of communications that is for sure.

References

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Ragousis Law Scrapped - Gov't To Introduce New Citizenship Law

 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

We cannot help but jump for glee with the next bit of news because it will help decrease the amount of illegal immigrants entering our country, unlike the days of PASOK when it was a free-for-all.

On Wednesday Prime Minister Antonis Samaras apparently asked Deputy Interior Minister Haralambos Athanassiou to proceed with a string of amendments in regards to a new law that will allow second-generation migrants to apply for Greek citizenship. The new law has to comply with the Council of State since the council on Tuesday ruled against the provisions provided in the Ragousis law, saying that they were unconstitutional. As soon as the news was made public, legal circles began saying that the results of the 2010 municipal elections should now be annulled.

A report on SKAI Tv said that the new law is not going to be imposed retrospectively and at the same time it will not affect those who have already received Greek citizenship under the Ragousis Law. Unfortunately it is not going to effect the municipality election results of November 2010 either, but then again this was only reported on SKAI and there is no formal announcement about that.

The Council’s decision stated clearly that “the right to vote is reserved to Greek citizens and cannot be extended to those who do not possess this status," unless, there is a revision of the relevant provision in the Greek Constitution.

The controversial law -or Law 3838/2010- or the Ragousis law, aimed at granting foreign nationals who were holding a temporary resident permit, the right to vote in municipal and regional elections. Something of which came under fire back in 2010 but just like other PASOK administrations in the past... was totally ignored!

The former law was introduced by ex-Interior Minister Yiannis Ragousis (under the Papandreou government), and ratified by a PASOK dominated Parliament in 2010. It allowed those who had been born to immigrant parents and that had been living in Greece legally for five years to obtain Greek citizenship as long as they had studied at a Greek school for at least six years. (Doesn't make sense, but then again everything with PASOK never does.)

When it was introduced there was heavy criticism against it because it was obvious that it was drafted in order to serve the petty interests of the then PASOK government.

Prosecution To Probe Independent Greek MP Over FB Comment About Stournaras

On the same day that Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras received a bullet in the mail from some revolutionaries in Crete, Dimis Argyropoulos, an MP from the Independent Greeks party apparently made a nasty comment on his Facebook page.

This prompted first instance prosecutor Panayiota Fakou to launch a probe in order to ascertain whether the Greek MP incited others to violence or disturbed the peace. “Next time, they will plant them in him,” Argyropoulos wrote in reaction to the news that a bullet had been sent to Stournaras by an organization calling itself Cretan Revolution.

“People are enraged. Those idiots haven’t realized it,” added the MP, who said that his remark had been a humorous comment made “in the heat of the moment.”

Article in Greek - Naftemboriki

Fire And The "Secret" Weapon Used By The Greeks In Byzantium

In a world where new warfare technology is adopted so quickly by so many nations, it’s hard to imagine that the method of creating a weapon as devastating as Greek Fire would be lost to the passage of time. But the recipe for this weapon was so closely guarded that within only 50 years of its invention, the knowledge was lost even to the original owners.  This flash of science and innovation happened in Byzantium, the state created by Emperor Constantine when he converted to Christianity in 324 c.e. and moved the eastern half of the Roman Empire to the Greek colony of Byzantium, in Turkey. The Byzantine Empire’s capital, Constantinople, became a great trading hub, but it faced danger from a host of covetous enemies, especially assorted Muslim satrapies.

Byzantium had a solid corps of scientists, most of them Greek, into which it tapped for some sort of military technology that would make it invulnerable. The Greeks succeeded beyond anyone’s wildest hopes, for they were responsible for that age’s thermonuclear weapon, “Greek fire.” It is believed to have been created in the seventh century (673 AD) by a Syrian engineer named Kallinikos (or Callinicus) however, Greek fire wasn’t entirely new. In about 400 b.c.e., scientists in ancient Greece, called upon to devise a new weapon that would break the will of besieged fortresses, came up with what they called a “fire weapon.” A product of early Greek advances in chemistry, it combined pitch, sulphur, granulated frankincense, and pine sawdust in a mixture that was packed into cloth sacks. Set alight, the sacks would be launched by catapults into the interior of fortresses, where they spread flames in all directions on contact. To the distress of defenders, pouring water on the flames seemed only to spread them farther.

In 673 c.e. the Byzantines were desperate for a weapon that would protect Constantinople, a port city, from attack by sea. The Byzantine navy was weak, so there was a critical need for some kind of weapon that would destroy invasion fleets and deter any landward attack. The Greek scientists decided that a fire weapon would be especially effective against wooden ships, but a careful look at the “fire weapon” of a thousand years before instantly revealed its limitations. Catapults were not that accurate, so the prospect of a machine with sufficient accuracy to launch a sack—a not very aerodynamic missile, in any event—from hundreds of yards away and hit a moving ship was remote at best. Launching such weapons from a ship was a possibility, but there again, the problem of accuracy arose: How to hit a target from a ship rolling in ocean waves?

 At this point the Greek scientists recalled that in their travels around the Middle East, they had seen a strange, smelly black substance oozing out of the ground. Nobody knew quite what to do with the substance (the Greeks called it “petroleum”), but the scientists noted that the black goo was highly flammable, whereupon they made the conceptual connection: convert “Greek fire” into a liquid weapon. In short order they devised an amazing weapon that anticipated the flamethrowers and napalm bombs of many centuries later—a mixture of petroleum and calcium phosphate (made from lime, bones, and urine) that amounted to a more powerful, liquefied version of the ancient “Greek fire.” Then they designed a weapons delivery system for it, an apparatus consisting of a large storage tank containing the petroleum mixture, a hand-turned pump, a hose made of animal hide, and a nozzle with a spark-driven “trigger.” The next step was modifying small galleys to carry the new weapon; the tank and the pump were put below decks, while the hose and the nozzle were fitted above decks, on the bow.

The weapon came just in time, because in 678 AD the Saracens launched an invasion fleet toward Constantinople, intending to take the city. The fleet was met by several small, fast Byzantine galleys (dromons) at sea. Using the superior maneuverability of their smaller ships, the Byzantines swung close to the Saracen ships as a crew below decks pumped furiously and a man wielding the nozzle, protected by archers, aimed it at a target. When the liquid reached the nozzle, he struck two pieces of flint together, producing a spark that converted the liquid into a spurt of liquid fire that arched out as far as 50 yards. One Saracen ship, then another, was engulfed in flames; the rest fled in terror. It is believed that over 30,000 men were lost in that battle.

Word soon spread of this miracle weapon, and traders with an eye on the immense profit to be made should they discover its formula besieged every Byzantine business contact they knew: What would it cost to obtain it? But the formula remained Byzantium’s most closely guarded secret; those attempting to find out were told angels had conveyed the formula directly from God to Emperor Constantine. Not many people believed this fairy tale, but all attempts to uncover the formula failed. Among the most avid formula-seekers were the Ottoman Turks, determined to seize Constantinople, the city they believed properly belonged in their sphere of influence. So long as the Byzantines possessed the ultimate weapon, however, there was no way to accomplish that militarily—as events of 716 c.e. proved, when nearly all of an entire fleet of Caliph Suleiman’s Ottoman Turkish ships attempting to carry out an invasion of Byzantium was destroyed by Byzantine ships spewing Greek fire.

As there is virtually no documentation of its usage after this time by the Byzantines, it is generally believed (partially due to the poor performance of the Byzantine fleets after this date) that it was during this era that the secrets of creating Greek Fire were lost.

The Ottoman Turks never did discover the secret of Greek fire, but no one else did, either. In the end, however, it hardly mattered. The Byzantine Empire, convinced it was invulnerable because it possessed an ultimate weapon that would never be defeated, grew complacent. It never tapped again into science to keep its military edge. It was only a question of time before relentless Arab pressure against a complacent Byzantine state began to tell—especially after the Byzantines, believing that their Greek fire would allow them to ignore any foreign threats, focused inward on their political and religious schisms and grew progressively weaker. Not even the wonder weapon of Greek fire could paper over such cracks, and by 971 c.e., Byzantium’s time of glory was over. It would finally collapse under renewed assault by a resurgent Islam; Constantinople eventually fell and was renamed Istanbul.

The Byzantines used Greek Fire rarely, presumably out of fear that the secret mixture might fall into enemy hands. This was probably justifiable. The widespread usage of Greek Fire would be a far greater loss to the Byzantines then the loss of a single battle.

While there has been much speculation involved in preparation of Greek Fire, no one to date has been able to successfully recreate this concoction. The closest would be the Arabian armies, who eventually created their own version (opinions differ as to exactly when this took place, presumably sometime between the mid-seventh century and the early tenth), but the formula was inexact and, compared to the original Byzantine substance, was relatively weak. This did not stop it from being one of the most devastating weapons of the era. The Arabs used the Greek Fire in very effective ways; much like the Byzantines, they used brass tubes aboard ships and upon castle walls. They also filled small glass jars with the substance, allowing them to hurl it by hand at their opponents. Arrows and spears would be used to carry the mixture further onto the battlefield and gigantic war engines could be used to hurl large amounts of the substance over a castle wall.

The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville, a thirteenth century French nobleman, include these observations of Greek Fire during the seventh Crusade:

     “This was the fashion of the Greek fire: it came on as broad in front as a vinegar cask, and the tail of fire that trailed behind it was as big as a great spear; and it made such a noise as it came, that it sounded like the thunder of heaven. It looked like a dragon flying through the air. Such a bright light did it cast, that one could see all over the camp as though it were day, by reason of the great mass of fire, and the brilliance of the light that it shed.”
    “Thrice that night they hurled the Greek fire at us, and four times shot it from the tourniquet cross-bow.”

Beyond the physical dangers of Greek Fire, this excerpt gives us an idea of its potency as a psychological weapon. The horrors of watching your comrades burn to death must have been a shattering blow to many a soldier. Many men were known to simply flee their posts rather than face the flames.

However, as devastating as Greek Fire might have been, there were some methods of combating it; as water alone was largely ineffective, common defenses included sand, vinegar,wine and urine. svmshippingblog

Greek Alphabet Was Used As Far Back As 6000 BC!

First letters of Greek alphabet (credit: Wikipedia)

The following article was written by P. Kouvalakis and first published in "Davlos" magazine. The article focuses on the Greek alphabet, and the author raises some good arguments as to why he believes it is older than Greek linear alphabets. Kouvalakis says it demolishes the false theory that Greeks took the alphabet from the Phoenicians, who emerged in history around 1150 BC, i.e. 4500-5000 years after the creation of the Yura written potsherd. Enjoy!

After the discovery of a wooden plate at Dispilion Kastorias, which was dated at 5300 BC, a new impressive discovery came to light, concerning the "prehistorical" alphabet in the Greek region. In the "Cyclop cave" at the desert islet Yura of Northern Sporades (20 miles out of Alonissos), ceramic fragments of written pots (potsherds) were excavated, upon the surface of which have been carved symbols facsimile with the letters of the classic Greek alphabet. The potsherds are dated between 6000 and 5500 BC.

The discovery at the cave in question, is conducted by the archaeologist Adamantios Sampson since 1992 and according to him: "besides the ceramics of the Later Neolithic, we have discovered written potsherds of exceptional quality dated at the end of Early Neolithic and at the beginning of Middle Neolithic. The aceramic layer was dated between 6445 and 6375 BC with the radioactive carbon method, while the layers of the Middle and Early Neolithic (among which are the potsherds) were dated between 6025 and 5955 BC" (A.Sampson, "The Greek Neolithical Civilization", Goulandris Foundation, 1996).

In the above study A.Sampson makes no other menthion of the tremendously imprortant discovered Yura potsherds, but confines himself to the description of the fishing activities at the Sporades area during the Neolithic era. The reference material, which he mentions, includes photographs of other finds (fish-hooks, statuettes, decorated pots) from the excavation in question, but not one of the written potsherds.

The photograph of one of the written potsherds came out from the newspaper "Adesmeftos Tipos" (presentation of N.Nikitidis 13 February 1997) in a relevant publication under the title "The most ancient alphabet is Greek". On the surface of the potsherd the letters Alpha, Ypsilon, Delta in a row are clearly distinguished, which make up the root of the word "ΑΥΔΗ" (speech, voice), first encountered in "Theogony" (Hesiodus) as well as in "Iliad" (Homer). In the same publication A.Sampson is reported to confirm that "they are alphabet symbols and make up a conscious act of the ceramist" and reserves his total evaluation of the finds for a future scientific paper.

It must be noted that only a small part of the cave in question, has so far been excavated, thus, in the immediate future probably, the rest written potsherds will be discovered. When this will happen, it will be possible to make a total evaluation of this ancient alphabet type, which doesn't seem to be different from the classic and modern type. These tremendously important finds justify the historic and linguistic view of the simultaneous creation and evolution of the Greek language and Greek alphabet and render beneath significance and importance the Phoenician theory for the History of Civilization.

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TRUTH EXPOSED - Bin Laden Relative Arrested In Turkey Before US Bombing

Cover of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Here is a great reply to Turkish dailies which at the weekend actually had the audacity to accuse Greece of operating terrorist training camps in areas such as Lavrio. These dailies even left it to be understood that the suicide bomber, responsible for a tragic terrorist attack at the US Embassy in Constantinople last week entered Turkey through Greece -implying of course that this criminal "trained at a Kurdish terrorist camp in Lavrion"! We here at HellasFrappe -who have had it up to here with all these lies- decided to follow the story everyday since then because we wanted to see why Turkey would make such a wacky accusation.

Reference - PROVOCATION - Gov't Slams Turkish Reports Claiming Greece Is Training Terrorists In Lavrio - http://hellasfrappe.blogspot.com/2013/02/provocation-govt-slams-turkish-reports.html

On Monday we discovered that Turkey knew that the terrorist attack ahead of time. Reports said that Turkish authorities knew in advance about the attack but didn’t have enough information to prevent it. 

Turkey’s national police agency was in possession of intelligence regarding a possible terrorist attack by the Marxist group Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C), but failed to prevent the suicide bomb blast at US Embassy in Ankara last Friday, according to an Israeli police source on Monday. Source Albany Tribune

Also on Monday, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused European countries, particularly Germany and France, of letting "terrorists" roam freely across Europe. (Lol... Good one... when everyone knows that they are secretly entering Europe through Turkey!) - Reference -  The Local

And On Wednesday we discovered that on the same day when the US Embassy in Ankara was attacked the Turkish daily news had an exclusive front-page report with the headline: “Bin Laden’s son-in-law arrested in Ankara.”   According to this exclusive report on Feb. 1 by Tolga Sardan, the CIA had tipped off the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT) that Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law, Suleiman Abu Gheith, had entered Turkey with a forged passport, and that the Turkish security forces have recently arrested him at a hotel in Ankara’s Cankaya district, where Turkey’s presidential palace, the US ambassador’s residential compound, and a number of embassies are also located.

Of course there is no link between these two incidents - aside from an interesting timing that the two came on the same day. The Revolutionary People’s Liberation Army (DHKP-C) claimed responsibility on Saturday for the attack to the US Embassy, which left Mustafa Akarsu, a 47-year-old security guard, dead, and Didem Tuncay, a well-known Turkish diplomatic correspondent, critically injured.

In a written statement, next to the picture of Ecevit Sanli, the suicide bomber, who's also dead, DHKP-C said, “Murderer America! You will not run away from people’s rage.” And it accused the United States of using Turkey as its “slave. Founded in 1978 with a fellow named Dursun Karatas, this secular party aligned with Marxist-Leninist ideology, quite out of step with the jihadi movement, has been anti-imperialist, anti-American and anti-NATO from the very beginning. Until today, it was never publicly framed as a “pro-Assad” group — even when their sense of common enemy in the United States led them to limited cooperation at times. Since the late 1980s, the group has targeted primarily current and retired Turkish security and military officials. It began a new campaign against foreign interests in 1990, which included attacks against U.S. military and diplomatic personnel and facilities. During the Gulf War, DHKP-C assassinated two American military personnel, wounded an American Air Force officer and conducted more than 20 bombings against U.S. and NATO military, commercial and cultural facilities.

Here is a small part of the report that was featured on Al-monitor

The former spokesman of the world’s most deadly terror network reportedly escaped Afghanistan following the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and settled in a camp in Iran. The Milliyet story said Abu Gheith appeared before a Turkish judge, but he was “let free as he did not commit any crime in Turkey except entering the country with a forged passport. Despite his release though, he was returned to the Turkish security forces for deportation. Although the U.S. asked that he be extradited to them, Turkish authorities have sent him back to Iran based on technical legal procedures.”
Considering Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s complains that the West is taking sides with PKK terrorists and failing to extradite them back to Turkey like allies should do, this report had the potential to turn the coin to the other side, and bring an international spotlight into Turkey’s terrorism laws as well as its legal definition of a “terrorist,” and the country’s responsibilities for the larger safety and security of our world. 
In this context, it’s certainly convenient that it’s not an al-Qaeda franchise that conducted the attack to the U.S. Embassy on Feb.1. Turkey could actually have found itself in a very difficult situation if this were to be somehow related to al-Qaeda, and that the country’s image might significantly be compromised. 
Turkish security forces took three suspects into custody Saturday on allegation that they helped provide Sanli the forged identification, but they were all let go by mid-Sunday because of lack of evidence tying them to any “terror network.” That said, it’s still too early to reach conclusive judgments as to why DHKP-C attacked the U.S. Embassy now — after a long break since they last targeted America in Turkey.

We thought this was a nice reply to the Turkish dailies who are always quick to spread false propaganda against Greece to the Turkish people.


Editor's Note - We are still following the story and will keep you guys up-to-date if anything develops.

Striking Seamen Forced Back To Work (VIDEO)

Riot police were deployed to Greece's main harbor of Piraeus early on Wednesday morning and kept union leaders away from ships loading passengers and cargo, after the Greek government enforced a civil mobilization order, effective as of 6:00 am in an attempt to end a week-long strike by seamen which has left hundreds of islands without food, fuel or medicine.

The government decided to use the rarely used civil mobilization order for the second time in two weeks. Defying the order carries a minimum jail sentence of three months and a maximum of five years.

The State decided to adopt the measure, after the protesters said that they would continue with their rolling 48-hour strikes on Tuesday. If this had happened, then the Greek islands would be left without ferry transport until at least Friday and.

The striking seamen and their unions want to cancel a plan that plans to regulate the minimum number of dock workers required in each crew, arguing that this would lead to future layoffs, while they say they are striking on account of back pay from ship owners and a collective wage agreement.

It needs to be reminded that most of these workers work for the private sector, but nonetheless they still accuse the government of intransigence over their problems. The government has nonetheless made it clear that the margins are limited due to the country's economic situation.

Editor's Note - They of course forget that they should be protesting against their employers and not the state, but then again try explaining this to a protester from a communist-backed union. In their world everything is governed by the state and should be. What these people do not realize is that they can indeed strike, and still be heard without shutting down the operation of the country. This tactic, which was introduced by Leftists decades now, is blaze, and cannot continue. You cannot defy law and expect the State to listen to your demands. No union, no force and no organization has the right to hold the rest of the nation at hostage in order to be heard.