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The Greek Government thought they had a handle on this group for a while, but apparntly the Commies are back!

Incidentally, I did a quick search for the term Revolutionary Struggle and found this interesting Wikipedia entry. This group isn't affiliated with the Greek perpetrators (except in ideology) and is now apparently dissolved, but the really interesting thing is that New Jersey Poet Laureate Amriri Baraka was once a member.

You remember Amiri Baraka. The one who was honored by the NJ Council on the Arts under then-governor Jim McGreevy as New Jersey's poet laurate but who responded to the 9/11 attacks with an anti-semitic conspiratorial rant?

"Who knew the World Trade Center was gonna get bombed;?
Who told 4000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers
To stay home that day?
Why did Sharon stay away??
Who? Who? Who?"

He's a darling in certain academic circles, kinda like Harry Belafonte. Derbyshire did a fun little write up.

Amiri Baraka's numerous literary prizes and honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Rockefeller Foundation Award for Drama, the Langston Hughes Award from The City College of New York, and a lifetime achievement award from the Before Columbus Foundation. He has taught poetry at the New School for Social Research in New York, literature at the University of Buffalo, and drama at Columbia University. He has also taught at San Francisco State University, Yale University and George Washington University. Since 1985 he has been a professor of Africana Studies at the State University of New York in Stony Brook.

I know that Baraka has no connection to the attack in Athens (except possibly as a kindred soul and a person of like mind) but it leads me to wonder if the Greeks will be anointing any of these fellows as their modern-day Homer?

I though it was Colonel Papadopoulos, in the Drawing Room, with a Ma Deuce.

Terrible news, and the Greek Government understands that the hotbed of terrorism from radicals is at their doorstep.

It does not surprise me that they are skeptic of Turkey's admission into the EU.

In my view, Iran was behind the attack on our embassy. Recall that, just a day ago, the United States attacked some kind of Iranian post in Iraq and arrested the Iranians inside. I think the Iranians are still in US cistody. The MSM describes that post vaguely, but some reports call it a "consulate" in the Kurdish sector.

Now the Islamic Republic is not going to let that kind of "provocation" (never mind that the Iranians are fomenting trouble in Iraq) go unanswered. No way. In fact, it also demonstrates to us, and to Europe, what will happen if we lean on Iran about their nukes.

The Greek leftist insurgency stopped decades ago. No; this is Iran. Expect another attack to raise the ante.

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