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(Nov. 24) -- A Greek anarchist group says it was behind a spate of mail bombs against foreign targets earlier this month.
Two men who were arrested in connection with the attacks wrote a letter to news network Indymedia. It said they were part of a group called Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, which sent the bombs, The New York Times reported.
The pair said they were involved in "the dispatch of parcel bombs to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the headquarters of the World Court in The Hague and the embassies of Belgium and Mexico in Athens," Agence France-Presse reported.
More than a dozen parcel bombs were sent earlier this month, mostly to foreign embassies in Athens and international organizations such as Europol. One person was injured and police carried out a controlled explosion of two packages.
"We are very proud of our action," the letter said. It was signed by Panayotis Argyriou, 22, and Gerassimos Tsakalos, 24.
The group, also known as Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, first came to prominence in 2008, when it launched arson and bomb attacks on government buildings and the homes of several Greek politicians. Nobody was hurt in those attacks.
John Brady Kiesling, a former State Department official and author of a book on U.S. diplomacy, said that this month's bombs were a display of solidarity with the global anarchist movement.
"Anarchists have come to grief in each of the countries mentioned, and Europol, Eurojust, and the European Court are believed to be part of a sinister New World Order of integrated continent-wide oppression of dissidents," Kiesling wrote on his website on Nov. 8.
The letter's purported authors were arrested just hours after the first bomb exploded in a post office. That device was addressed to the Mexican Embassy in Athens.
"Even in the difficult conditions of our imprisonment, we are not going to stop publicizing our positions in favor of armed violence and revolution," the men wrote.
Greek Anarchist Group Claims Responsibility for Mail Bombs
Nov 24, 2010 – 2:30 PM
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