THE LOOMING CRAPPER:

Blast at U.S. Embassy called terrorism (DEREK GATOPOULOS, 1/12/07, Associated Press

Police cordoned off streets around the U.S. Embassy in Athens early today after an explosion inside the embassy compound that a senior police official said was an ``act of terrorism.''

The blast smashed glass in the front of the building near the U.S. emblem of the embassy. Police did not report any injuries and embassy officials could not immediately be reached for comment.

''This is an act of terrorism. We don't know where from,'' Attica police Chief Asimakis Golfis said. ``There was a shell that exploded in the toilets of the building. . . . It was fired from street level.''

Boy, that Zawahiri really knows how to regain the momentum, huh?

Posted by Orrin Judd at January 12, 2007 9:15 AM