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| November 17th had big plans... |
| 2002-08-04 |
| The November 17 urban guerrilla group drew up plans for dozens of attacks against U.S. and European targets in northern Greece in the early 1990s. Newspapers said computer discs found in a safe house raided by police last month, contained detailed information on foreign schools, consulates, businesses, individuals and vehicles in the port city of Thessaloniki. The group had marked several potential targets, including the U.S. consulate which it planned to hit from the sea using a stolen coastguard vessel. November 17, which has killed 23 people in the last 27 years, did not carry out any of the planned attacks in Thessaloniki. Terrorist nutbags fantasize just like the rest of us. One day, I'll write just the right thing on Rantburg. Someone will mention my name to Richard Mellon Scaif. He'll give me lotsa money and I won't have to work anymore. FoxNews and MSNBC will compete to see which one can have me on the most times to give my opinion on Yasser and Qazi and Binny. Patty Ann Brown, Kathy, and Julia Roberts will all call me and ask me for dates... These guys were doing the same thing: they were gonna blow up schools, consulates, businesses, and anything American. They were gonna hijack the space shuttle. The government was gonna fall and the nation was gonna beg them to take over and tell them what to do. They were gonna have wimmin, prestige, power... Police, who have detained 15 suspected members in the last month, have vowed to destroy the group ahead of the 2004 Athens Olympics. Yeah, and they were doin' a hell of a job, even before that guy managed to maim himself and spill all the beans. Why, any time, they were gonna... (Coppers fantasize, too.) |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |