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Thanks for the update on this story...we aren't hearing too much about it outside of Greece...is it getting bigger play there? And how is Kiesling's article being received?

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia
by whataboutbob on Fri Mar 3rd, 2006 at 10:04:37 AM EST
Yes, it's, as you can imagine, still a huge and open story here. Unforunately there is more rumor produced than substance. The two things that we do now know, is that a. the company knew that something was wrong a month before they initially claimed, and that b. the Tsalikidis suicide was most probably not a suicide.

The government is trying to divert attention from this embarassing story as much as it can, and Kiesling's article (despite not revealing anything that wasn't already known in Greece) reopened that can of worms with a vengeance.

Kiesling, I think, that everybody likes over here, if solely for the guts it took (he quit 5 years short of a full retirement) to tell the whole neocon cabal to go to hell. He writes a monthly column for the English language Athens daily, Athens News.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake

by talos (mihalis at gmail dot com) on Fri Mar 3rd, 2006 at 11:08:35 AM EST
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Is there a more than hell freezes over chance that an elected Socialist government will ask the US base to go away?

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Fri Mar 3rd, 2006 at 11:22:08 AM EST
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No. The current Socialist leadership is, if anything, more pro-American than the Conservatives.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake
by talos (mihalis at gmail dot com) on Fri Mar 3rd, 2006 at 11:54:39 AM EST
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Sigh...

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Fri Mar 3rd, 2006 at 11:55:47 AM EST
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It wouldn't be a good thing if Greece did that anway. That's the kind of upheaval you don't want right next to Turkey, the Middle east and the Balkans.

One key thing to remember, for every base you lose, you need to start a new war to establish another base.

by Upstate NY on Fri Mar 3rd, 2006 at 02:13:22 PM EST
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One key thing to remember, for every base you lose, you need to start a new war to establish another base.
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Yap...so right!
by vbo on Sat Mar 4th, 2006 at 01:14:43 AM EST
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