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Explosives found at suspected Greek militant hideout
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Sat Apr 17, 2010 1:28pm EDT
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek police found 195 kg (429 lb) of explosives on Saturday at the hideout of a suspected member of the country's most militant guerrilla group, Revolutionary Struggle, who was detained earlier this week.
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Police said they had found the stash of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil in a garage registered to a name found on a false identification card seized in raids last week that led to the arrest of six suspected members of the group.
"It is a quite big quantity," police spokesman Thanassis Kokkalakis told Reuters. "It could have brought down a 6-storey apartment block."
Police said the explosive was the same type used in a bomb claimed by Revolutionary Struggle that seriously damaged the Athens Stock Exchange last year.
Prosecutors have charged the six with participating in bomb attacks, participating in a terrorist group, attempted murder, and other crimes. The accused have denied any wrongdoing.
The arrests followed a surge in bomb blasts this year across Athens, which has a history of attacks from left-wing guerrillas that have killed more than a score of people, including diplomats, businessmen and politicians in the past four decades.
Since coming to power in October, the socialist government has made combating guerrillas a priority. The arrests were seen as a victory at a time when the government has had to implement tough austerity measures to fight a growing economic crisis.
Revolutionary Struggle emerged in 2003 after police captured deadly urban guerrilla group November 17. It is best known for firing a rocket-propelled grenade at the U.S. embassy in Athens in 2007. It also tried to kill a minister in 2006.
(Reporting by Angeliki Koutantou; Writing by Michael Winfrey; Editing by Jon Hemming)
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