Word: karmon
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...radicals or anarchists with no known ties to al-Qaeda or other global networks. The first bomb went off at 3:55 a.m. in a location where there were unlikely to be passersby; the anonymous bombers telephoned a warning - in Greek - to a local newspaper 45 minutes before. Ely Karmon, a counter-terrorism expert at the Israel-based International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism who advised Greece on its preparations, agrees that the Greek groups are "more of a nuisance than a real terror threat for the Olympics. They may cause a bit of panic [in case of an attack...
...Unlike the terrorists in New York, Istanbul and Madrid, Karmon and others say, the Greek anarchists are seeking to test the establishment, not kill large numbers of people. The most likely suspect in Wednesday's attack is a group called the Revolutionary Struggle, which was behind a similar strike outside a courthouse last year. Greek terrorism experts believe the bombs were less a warning of things to come than a political provocation aimed at embarrassing the government. They succeeded. There were plenty of red faces among the Greek delegation that arrived in Washington later that day to brief...
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