Word: elphinston
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...best defended Games ever. Then three bombs go off right behind a police station. Although the blasts didn't injure, much less kill, anybody, they hurt global confidence in all of those elaborate security measures. "Any bomb that goes off in Athens is worrying," said Bob Elphinston, secretary general of the Australian Olympic Committee. The Defense College's Bossi says, "If these [security] systems are in fact in effect, then this attack is unacceptable. It shouldn't have happened." Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis was anxious to contain the damage. The bombings, he said, were "an isolated incident" that...
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