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German Letter Bomb Found After Athens Blasts
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Richard 
German Letter Bomb Found After Athens Blasts
NYT, 2 Nov 2010
Explosives were found in a package in the mail room at the German chancellor’s office on Tuesday, just a few hours after letter bombs exploded at the Swiss and Russian embassies in Athens and three more devices were found addressed to other embassies there.
The chancellor, Angela Merkel, was visiting Belgium at the time and was not in the building. Federal police said the chancellery was evacuated and the device was disabled with a water cannon.
German news reports said that the return address on the package was the Greek economic ministry, but those reports could not immediately be confirmed. Germany took the lead in the European Union in pressing Greece to make severe government cutbacks to handle its debt crisis this year.
A letter bomb addressed to the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, was recovered on Monday, when a first round of letter bombs were found after one exploded in the hands of a courier agent.
In Athens, counter-terrorism officers charged two suspects arrested Monday, both in their early 20s, with terrorist acts. One is suspected of belonging to the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, a small domestic terror group that has claimed responsibility for a string of attacks on government and business targets over the past two years that caused no injuries.
(Cont'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/03/wo.../03greece.html
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