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Tsunami Fears Subside After Strong Earthquake 2007-01-13 03:45:34 Tsunami alerts that were issued for British Columbia, Alaska and Hawaii after a major underwater earthquake in the Pacific Ocean have been lifted, according to two warning centers. A tsunami warning had been issued for Japan and a broad area surrounding the Pacific Ocean after the quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 8.2, hit east of the Kuril Islands. Hours after the quake was detected, instruments in four locations along Japan's northeastern coast measured a rise in tidal levels of about 10-centimeters (4 inches), according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. No damage was reported. A 1-foot (30-centimeter) wave was measured in Shemya, Alaska, part of the Aleutian Island chain, said the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center. Read The Full Story Breaking News: Japan Issues Tsunami Warning As 8.3 Earthquake Hits Near Kuril Islands 2007-01-13 00:35:38 Japan's Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning as an 8.3 earthquake hit 310 miles south-southeast of the Kuril Island chain.. The U.S. Geological survey gave a preliminary 7.7 magnitude to the quake which struck at 11:23 p.m. Friday EST (4:23 p.m. Saturday UTC and 2:23 p.m. Saturday in Japan).  The U.S.G.S. put the quake's epicenter at 46.344°N, 154.427°E and 6.2 miles beneath surface of the sea bottom near the Kuril Islands. The epicenter is located about 1,000 miles (1,710 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo, Japan. Read The Full Story 'The Jihad Now Is Against The Shias, Not The Americans' 2007-01-13 00:15:06 Intellpuke: As 20,000 more U.S. troops head for Iraq, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, the only correspondent reporting regularly from behind the country's sectarian battle lines, reveals how the Sunni insurgency has changed in this article for the Guardian's edition of Saturday, January 13, 2007: One morning a few weeks ago I sat in a car talking to Rami, a thick-necked former Republican Guard commando who now procures arms for his fellow Sunni insurgents. Rami was explaining how the insurgency had changed since the first heady days after the U.S. invasion. "I used to attack the Americans when that was the jihad. Now there is no jihad. Go around and see in Adhamiya [the notorious Sunni insurgent area] - all the commanders are sitting sipping coffee; it's only the young kids that are fighting now, and they are not fighting Americans any more, they are just killing Shia. There are kids carrying two guns each and they roam the streets looking for their prey. They will kill for anything, for a gun, for a car and all can be dressed up as jihad." Rami was no longer involved in fighting, he said, but made a tidy profit selling weapons and ammunition to men in his north Baghdad neighborhood. Until the last few months, the insurgency got by with weapons and ammunition looted from former Iraqi army depots. But now that Sunnis were besieged in their neighborhoods and fighting daily clashes with the better-equipped Shia ministry of interior forces, they needed new sources of weapons and money. Read The Full Story Best-Selling Author John Grisham Now Client In Court Case 2007-01-13 00:14:05 He's a lawyer. He's a best-selling author. Now he's The Client. The Virginia Supreme Court ruled Friday that John Grisham must face a jury for his actions in a real-life whodunit. Grisham, author of "The Pelican Brief," "The Firm" and "The Runaway Jury," among other bestsellers, lives outside Charlottesville, Virginia. His son attended the private St. Anne's-Belfield School, where he played baseball for Alan Swanson, the head coach. Grisham and Swanson became friends, according to court papers, and Grisham is on the school's board of trustees. In 1996, Swanson's wife, Donna Swanson, began receiving harassing anonymous letters, which included allegations that her husband was cheating on her, according to the ruling. Grisham also received an anonymous letter. Read The Full Story Two Missing Boys Found Alive In Missouri Home 2007-01-13 00:13:12 A 13-year-old boy who vanished from the gravel road near his home five days ago was found alive about 60 miles away in a suburban St. Louis, Missouri, home, along with a 15-year-old boy missing since 2002, authorities said Friday. The boys were found in a Kirkwood home belonging to Michael Devlin, 41, who has been charged with one count of first-degree kidnapping, said Sheriff Gary Toelke. The sheriff said both boys appeared unharmed. William Ownby, who goes by Ben, appeared somewhat dazed as he walked inside the sheriff's department, where he was reunited with his family Friday night. Read The Full Story Pakistan Angry At U.S. Intelligence Chief's Terror Claim 2007-01-13 00:12:15 The Pakistani government protested Friday a claim by the head of U.S. intelligence, John Negroponte, that al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders were hiding inside Pakistan. Since December 2001, when Osama Bin Laden escaped a U.S.-led siege of his Afghan mountain lair at Tora Bora, western intelligence agencies have presumed the al-Qaeda leader and his top Taliban allies were hiding in the highland tribal areas along the Afghan-Pakistan border. However, in written evidence to a Senate committee, Negroponte, director of national intelligence, singled out Pakistan as the location of the jihadist leaders' hideout, arguing that al-Qaeda and the Taliban were rebuilding a network there. Negroponte said Pakistan remained a "major source of Islamic extremism". Read The Full Story House Passes Bill Mandating Government Negotiations On Drug Prices 2007-01-12 16:04:57 The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation Friday requiring the government to negotiate with drug companies to lower the prices of medicines for Medicare patients. Despite a veto threat from the president, Democrats used their majority status to push through another of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's priorities for the first 100 hours of the new Congress. The vote was 255-170. The idea behind the bill is using the sheer size of the Medicare program to generate steeper discounts than private insurance plans can muster. "Forty-three million people can have the purchasing power to perhaps encourage these drug houses to give the government and the American retirees a better price," said the bill's author, Rep. John Dingell, D-Michigan. Read The Full Story Taliban Leaders In Pakistan Request 'Martyr' Funerals For Slain Insurgents 2007-01-12 16:04:21 The bodies of two dozen Islamic insurgents killed in a clash with NATO and Afghan army forces near the border with Pakistan were sent back Friday to Pakistan, where Taliban leaders asked that they be given funerals as "martyrs," according to news reports in Kabul, Afghanistan. The reports appeared to bolster Afghan and U.S. assertions, repeatedly denied by Pakistani officials, that Pakistan's tribal regions along the border with Afghanistan have provided a safe haven for Islamic militia groups seeking to destabilize the Western-backed government of Afghanistan. The funeral preparations were reported to take place in villages in Pakistan's North Waziristan region, where last September Pakistani officials brokered a truce that they said was aimed at curbing Islamic extremist activities in the area. Afghan and NATO officials have said cross-border insurgent infiltration has actually increased since then. Read The Full Story BP Chief Executive Plans To Retire In July 2007-01-12 16:03:41 Executive John Browne will retire at the end of July and will be succeeded by Tony Hayward, the company's head of exploration and production, British Petroleum said Friday. Browne said last year that he would retire at the end of 2008. Over the past year, BP, one of the world's largest oil companies, has suffered a series of operational and governance problems that have led to strong criticism from investors and a dent in its reputation. "Last summer, John and I had agreed that he would stay as CEO until the end of 2008," said BP Chairman Peter Sutherland. "John decided that it would be in the company's interest to name a successor now in order to provide an orderly transition. Having made that decision, which the board fully supports, we came to the conclusion that a six month handover would be more appropriate than 18 months." BP shares rose 1.8 percent to 5.47 pounds ($10.59) on the London Stock Exchange. Read The Full Story U.S. Unit Patrolling Baghdad Sees Flaws In Bush Strategy 2007-01-12 02:15:29 A few hours before another mission into the cauldron of Baghdad, Spec. Daniel Caldwell's wife instant-messaged him Thursday morning. President Bush, Kelly wrote, wanted to send more than 20,000 U.S. troops and extend deployments in Iraq. Eight weeks pregnant, she was worried. Caldwell, a tall, lean 20-year-old from Montesano, Washington, wondered whether he would miss the birth of his child. He walked outside and joined his comrades of Apache Company, 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, Stryker Brigade. They, too, had heard the news. Moments before he stepped into his squad's Stryker - a large, bathtub-shaped vehicle encased in a cage - Caldwell echoed a sentiment shared by many in his squad: "They're kicking a dead horse here. The Iraqi army can't stand up on their own." Read The Full Story Pentagon Drops Rule Limiting Reservists' Duty Time 2007-01-12 02:14:59 For the first time since President Bush mobilized the National Guard and Reserve after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Pentagon is abandoning its limit on the time a citizen-soldier can be required to serve on active duty. Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters Thursday that the change would have been made even if Bush had not ordered an additional 21,500 troops to Iraq, further straining the Army and Marine Corps. The Pentagon also announced it is proposing to Congress that the size of the Army be increased by 65,000, to 547,000 and that the Marine Corps, the smallest of the services, grow by 27,000, to 202,000, over the next five years. No cost estimate was provided, but officials said it would be at least several billion dollars. Until now, the Pentagon’s policy on the Guard or Reserve was that members’ cumulative time on active duty for the Iraq or Afghan wars could not exceed 24 months. That cumulative limit is now lifted; the remaining limit is on the length of any single mobilization, which may not exceed 24 consecutive months, said Pace. Read The Full Story Commentary: Guantanamo Bay Is A U.S. Torture Camp 2007-01-12 02:14:22 Intellpuke: Britain's Vikram Dodd writes on the Guardian Unlimited's website for Friday, Jan. 12, 2007, that evidence of prisoner abuse shows the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is a torture camp and it hasn't made anyone safer. Mr. Dodd's column begins here: It would be the ideal spot for a beachside birthday party. Surrounded by a turquoise sea, palm trees and white sand, the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba was five years old Thursday. Tony Blair calls it an "anomaly", but the evidence is overwhelming. Camp Delta, which still houses 470 men never convicted of any crime, is a torture camp. That should be the starting point of any debate about what is acceptable in the west's fight with Islamist extremists. More than 750 men have passed through the camp, with nearly half being released. Many prisoners, past and present, have given consistent and repeated testimony of serious abuses and ill treatment. There is also significant evidence from U.S. officials and government documents of widespread abuse at the camp. The British detainees known as the Tipton Three allege they were repeatedly beaten, shackled in painful positions for long periods and subjected to sleep deprivation. They were also subjected to strobe lighting, loud music and extremes of hot and cold - all meant to break them psychologically. Other detainees have suffered beatings, sexual assaults and death threats. At least one man has been "water boarded" - tied to a board and placed under water so that he had the sensation of drowning. According to the Red Cross, the regime at Guantanamo causes psychological suffering that has driven inmates mad, with scores of suicide attempts and three inmates killing themselves last year. Read The Full Story U.S. Troops Went Into Somalia After Raid, No Top Targets Confirmed Dead 2007-01-12 02:13:24 A small team of American military personnel entered southern Somalia to try to determine exactly who was killed in a U.S. airstrike Monday that targeted suspected al-Qaeda figures thought to be hiding in swampy mangrove forests along the Indian Ocean, U.S. sources said Thursday. So far, "no one can confirm a high-value target" among the dead, said one U.S. source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. But items recovered at the strike site - a piece of bloody clothing and a document - indicated that Aden Ayrow, head of the military arm of the deposed Islamic Courts movement, had been at the scene. The strike killed eight to 10 people suspected of terrorist links, according to another source, a high-ranking U.S. official in the region who spoke Thursday and declined to be identified. The people were fleeing with remnants of the Courts movement, which was swept from power last month by invading Ethiopian forces who installed in its place the country's U.S.-backed transitional government. Read The Full Story Nine Feared Dead As North Sea Storms With 90 MPH Winds Cause Chaos 2007-01-12 02:12:34 Gales of up to 90 mph caused chaos Thursday, with up to nine people believed killed - seven of them fishermen lost at sea - and thousands of homes without electricity. Travel across Britain was severely disrupted as trees crashed on to roads and rail lines, while more than 170 areas were on alert for floods as a low pressure from the Atlantic brought heavy rains and high winds. There was a dramatic race against time last night as coastguards rushed to evacuate 30 gas workers from a North Sea platform lying in the path of a stricken cargo ship that had broken down in mountainous seas. The 4,500-ton vessel narrowly missed the rig, but was lurching perilously close to others early Friday morning. A Met (Meteorological) Office forecaster said severe weather warnings had been in place up and down the U.K.  "There have been strong gusts quite widely. Pretty much all of Scotland has had, or currently has, warnings," she said. A man was killed at the village of Britty Common, near Taunton, Somerset, when a tree crashed onto his car. A search was also under way for a woman steward believed to have fallen overboard from a Russian cargo vessel, Vera Maretskaya, seven miles south of Falmouth, Cornwall. Read The Full Story Japan Awaits Bird Flu Tests, Indonesian Woman Dies Of Bird Flu 2007-01-12 02:11:56 Japan said on Friday that it could be afflicted by its first outbreak of the lethal H5N1 bird flu strain in three years, as the disease killed an Indonesian woman and spread closer to Vietnam's largest city. An official at a Jakarta hospital said on Friday that a woman had died of bird flu and four other people were being treated for bird flu symptoms. The past week has seen a flare-up of infections, echoing past winters, the season when the virus appears to thrive. Read The Full Story	UPDATE: Japan Issues Tsunami Warning As 8.4 Earthquake Hits Near Kuril Islands 2007-01-13 01:12:15 A tsunami warning was issued Saturday for Japan and a broad area surrounding the Pacific Ocean, including Alaska, after a major undersea earthquake east of the Kuril Islands, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center and the West Coast & Alaska Tsunami Warning Center. Tsunami waves between one and two meters (3 to 6 feet) were possible at about 2 p.m. local time near Hokkaido, Japan and other areas of Japan's northern island, according to another warning from the Japan Meteorology Agency. Half-meter waves were possible along Japan's coast south of Hokkaido, said the agency. The earthquake was measured at a massive 8.4 magnitude at 11:23 p.m. ET, said the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center bulletin. Read The Full Story Rice: Bush Authorized Iranians' Arrests In Iraq 2007-01-13 00:15:25 A recent series of American raids against Iranians in Iraq was authorized under an order that President Bush decided to issue several months ago to undertake a broad military offensive against Iranian operatives in the country, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday. “There has been a decision to go after these networks,” Rice said in an interview with the New York Times in her office on Friday afternoon, before leaving on a trip to the Middle East. Rice said Bush had acted “after a period of time in which we saw increasing activity” among Iranians in Iraq, “and increasing lethality in what they were producing”. She was referring to what American military officials say is evidence that many of the most sophisticated improvised explosive devices, or I.E.D.’s, being used against American troops were made in Iran. Read The Full Story Somali Islamists Held Meeting In Britain To Raise Funds 2007-01-13 00:14:41 Somalia's Islamist movement, whose leadership is accused by the U.S. of sheltering some of al-Qaeda's most wanted operatives, sent a delegation on a fundraising trip to Britain last year, the Guardian has learned. Led by an Islamist minister, the Union of Islamic Courts delegation received pledges of funding from members of Britain's Somali diaspora at a meeting at a north London school in November. According to one community leader, the Somali delegation also met sympathisers at the Finsbury Park mosque, which became notorious as a recruiting ground for radical Islam under its former imam Abu Hamza. Abdiwali Mohamud, a Somali community worker in Camden, said: "They were trying to influence people in a Muslim way, saying are you with us or with the unbelievers?" Although they were not officially recognized by Britain, the Islamists also held talks with Foreign Office officials, who urged them to negotiate with Somalia's government. Read The Full Story Skull Supports Theory Of Human Migration 2007-01-13 00:13:44 From a new analysis of a human skull discovered in South Africa more than 50 years ago, scientists say they have obtained the first fossil evidence establishing the relatively recent time for the dispersal of modern Homo sapiens out of Africa. The migrants appeared to have arrived at their new homes in Asia and Europe with the distinct and unmodified heads of Africans. An international team of researchers reported Thursday that the age of the South African skull, which they dated at about 36,000 years old, coincided with the age of the skulls of humans then living in Europe and the far eastern parts of Asia, even Australia. The skull also closely resembled skulls of those humans. The timing, the scientists and other experts said, introduced independent evidence supporting archaeological finds and recent genetic studies showing that modern humans left sub-Saharan Africa for Eurasia between 65,000 and 25,000 years ago; probably closer to 45,000 to 35,000 years ago for Europe. Read The Full Story 17 Injured As School Bus Hits Students In Pennsylvania 2007-01-13 00:12:54 A school bus driver lost control and struck several students as they left a high school Friday, then crashed into a retaining wall, sending 17 children to hospitals, said officials. The driver said the bus developed some sort of mechanical problem that left it "somewhat steerable but out of control,"  said Pennsbury High School Principal William Katz. Fourteen students on foot and the three on the bus were taken to hospitals, officials said. A 17-year-old girl in critical condition was being transferred to a hospital in Philadelphia, said a hospital spokeswoman. One boy dived under the bus as it veered toward him, suffering only scrapes and bruises. "The bus drove over him while he was laying flat on his back looking up," said Lower Bucks County Hospital spokesman Bob Harris. "Thank goodness the buses are high." Read The Full Story Isabel Peron Arrested In Spain Over Alleged Human Rights Abuses 2007-01-13 00:11:51 Isabel Peron, the former Argentinian president and widow of the caudillo Juan Peron, was arrested at her home in Madrid, Spain, last night after a judge in her home country launched an investigation into alleged human rights abuses during her tumultuous rule in the 1970s. Police acted on an international arrest warrant issued by the judge, Raul Acosta. Ms. Peron was driven to court last night and bailed pending an extradition request expected to follow by the end of February. Judge Acosta wants her extradited to Argentina to face questions about dissident killings during her 20-month rule. Ms. Peron, who is believed to be 75, is accused of having links to rightwing death squads which abducted and murdered leftwing activists during her 1974-76 rule, a chaotic period ending with a coup which ousted her and ushered in a dictatorship. Read The Full Story Iraq Government Greets Bush Plan With Resentment 2007-01-12 16:04:40 Iraq's Shiite-led government offered only a grudging endorsement on Thursday of President Bush's proposal to deploy more than 20,000 additional troops in an effort to curb sectarian violence and regain control of Baghdad. The tepid response immediately raised questions about whether the government would make a good-faith effort to prosecute the new war plan. The Iraqi leader, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, failed to appear at a news conference and avoided any public comment. He left the government's response to an official spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh, who gave what amounted to a backhanded approval of the troop increase and emphasized that Iraqis, not Americans, would set the future course in the war. Dabbagh said that the government's objective was to secure the eventual withdrawal of American troops, and that for that to be possible there had to be security for Iraqis. "If this can be achieved by increasing either Iraqi or multinational forces," he added, "the government, for sure, will not stand against it." Read The Full Story Russian Billionaire Detained In Prostitution Ring Investigation 2007-01-12 16:04:01 Mikhail Prokhorov, a billionaire often described as Russia's most eligible bachelor, was detained during an investigation into a suspected international prostitution ring operating at an upscale ski resort, a French prosecutor said Thursday. Prokhorov, 41, chief executive of the world's largest producer of nickel, Norilsk Nickel, was taken into custody Tuesday at Courchevel, a ski resort in the French Alps, after a lengthy investigation, said the prosecutor in Lyon, Xavier Richaud. With an estimated wealth of $6.4 billion, Prokhorov ranked 89th on Forbes magazine's 2006 list of the world's wealthiest people. Among the 26 people detained, said Richaud, were Prokhorov, 2 of his aides, 2 other people on his company's staff and 10 women. During the raid, $64,000 in cash was seized from a hotel at the ski resort, the Associated Press reported. The women are not under investigation for a crime, Richaud told Bloomberg News, and they are understood to have since left France. He said, "Mr. Prokhorov denied pimping." Read The Full Story Update: Missile Hits U.S. Embassy In Greece 2007-01-12 16:03:03 A rocket-propelled missile hit the U.S. Embassy in Athens early Friday morning, causing minor damage to an upper-floor window and a room that gets infrequent use, according to U.S. State Department officials and embassy officials in Greece. In a message issued Friday, the State Department indicated that "unknown persons" fired the missile at the embassy at 5:55 a.m. local time. No one was in the area of the building at the time, and no one was hurt, an embassy official said. About 400 people work at the U.S. Embassy in Athens. Athens police officials have said they believe the missile was fired from a building across the street, and they are investigating. Read The Full Story CDC Links Cold Medicines To Infant Deaths 2007-01-12 02:15:12 After investigating the deaths of three infants between 1 and 6 months old linked to cough and cold medication use, officials with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are emphasizing that these drugs should be used only after talking with a physician. Between 2004 and 2005, about 1,500 children younger than 2 years old were treated in emergency rooms for adverse events associated with cough and cold medications, Dr. A. Srinivasan and colleagues at the CDC note in Friday's issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. For each of the three dead infants, a medical examiner or coroner determined that the cough and cold medications were the underlying causes of death. Blood levels of the decongestant pseudoephedrine at autopsy were far above what's normally expected after therapeutic dosing in children between 2 to 12. Read The Full Story Group: U.S. Has Lost Credibility On Human Rights 2007-01-12 02:14:35 The advocacy group Human Rights Watch said Thursday that Washington's once-powerful role as a prime defender of human rights had effectively ended because of arbitrary detentions and reports of torture since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and the group urged the European Union to step up as a leader of the cause. Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, released the group's World Report 2007, an assessment of last year's global human rights practices, by saying that the counterterrorism record of the United States over the past five years has tarnished its credibility as an influential moral voice. He listed several practices he said were being used by the Bush administration in its fight against terrorism, including torture, arbitrary detentions, allowing CIA interrogators to use coercive techniques and the unsupervised handling of so-called enemy combatants held in other countries. Read The Full Story Britain Asks 48 Nations To Help Test For Polonium 2007-01-12 02:13:46 British authorities are working with officials from 48 countries to evaluate about 450 people who were in London around Nov. 1 and fear they might have been exposed to the radioactive polonium-210 that killed former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko. Britain's Health Protection Agency declined to identify the countries, but the United States is among them, according to U.S. health officials. People who think they might have been exposed are invited to submit urine samples and consult with doctors; for most, the exposure appears to have been harmlessly small. Litvinenko died Nov. 23 at a London hospital of polonium-210 poisoning. Police have since found traces of polonium at 17 locations in London, most prominently the Pine Bar at the Millennium Hotel and the Itsu sushi restaurant in central London, both of which Litvinenko visited Nov. 1. The two locations remain closed to the public. Read The Full Story Congressmen Have Little Confidence Iraq Leaders Can Deliver On Bush Plan 2007-01-12 02:13:03 President Bush's proposal to send 21,500 additional troops to Iraq encountered strong bipartisan opposition on Capitol Hill Thursday, and his top national security advisers, dispatched to defend the strategy, were greeted with a skepticism not seen from Congress over the past six years. Lawmakers said they have little confidence that the Iraqi government has the capacity to deliver on promises to take the lead in cracking down on violent militias and providing security in Baghdad, as the president's plan contemplates. Democrats and Republicans alike said they are concerned that Bush's plan, announced Wednesday night in a nationally televised prime-time address, is too little and too late and does not appear very different from previous efforts to secure the capital. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates sought to assure lawmakers that the plan can work if given time. Gates said he detected a much greater determination from Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to go after "all lawbreakers" with "no exceptions." He suggested that the prime minister will confront the militias fueling sectarian violence, including insurgents controlled by radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Read The Full Story Black Hole Triplets Spotted 2007-01-12 02:12:20 The discovery of three distant supermassive black holes in proximity to one another is giving astronomers a glimpse into the chaotic early years of the universe. Known as quasars, these incredibly bright objects are thought to be powered by gas falling into enormous black holes situated in the centers of galaxies. Although smaller than our solar system, a single quasar can outshine an entire galaxy of a hundred billion stars. Roughly 100,000 quasars have been observed in recent years, some of them double quasars, but this is the first time that three quasars have been found so near one another. The three quasars are separated by about 100,000 to 150,000 light years - about the width of our Milky Way. Read The Full Story Attackers Fire Rocket At U.S. Embassy In Athens, Greece 2007-01-12 02:11:35 Attackers fired a rocket at the U.S. embassy in Athens on Friday but no one was hurt, said police and the U.S. embassy. Greek anti-terrorist officers were on the scene. "This was a rocket attack launched from a building across the street. It landed inside a toilet on the third floor of the embassy," a senior police official told Reuters. "There are no injuries from the blast," said a U.S. embassy spokesman. Read The Full Story
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