November 3, 2010
If Europe’s leaders didn’t already have enough reasons to worry about Greece these days, they have just found another: the country’s loony, left-wing extremists have discovered a new way to export their form of anarchy and terror abroad.
In the past two days, Greece’s far-left fringe group, the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei is suspected of sending more than half-a-dozen mail bombs to various leaders and embassies around Europe and the world. They have targeted French President Nicholas Sarkozy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, as well as a spate of foreign embassies in Athens including those of Switzerland, Russia and Chile, among others.
What they are after—and why they selected those targets–is still not entirely clear: theories abound in Athens these days. But Greece is no stranger to far-left groups and any observer of modern Greek history knows that the tradition of a radical (and frequently violent) left has deep roots in the country.
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