Typical frat-house hijinks. Err, well, maybe not the same kind of Greeks. Bad joke. War crimes don't have a statute of limitation (just ask Henry Kissinger), perhaps Ms. Rice won't be lounging on a beach on Chios anytime soon.
Athens police have fired teargas during a clash with anti-war demonstrators protesting against a visit by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.Some protesters hurled petrol bombs, sticks and stones in return.
Ms Rice is meeting Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis as part of a five-day trip to Europe that also includes Turkey and Bulgaria.
Thousands of protesters are said to have gathered in Athens. Some 5,000 riot police have been deployed.
Television pictures showed protesters throwing petrol bombs and using sticks as riot police advanced, the air thick with tear gas.
The protesters were trying to reach the buildings where Condoleezza Rice is meeting Mr Karamanlis and her Greek counterpart, Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyianni, but many retreated under the police pressure, reports said.
Self-styled anarchists trailing the demonstrators continued fighting police, burning cars and smashing shop fronts.
“We are not protesting just against Rice, but the imperialist, war-mongering US government,” school teacher Panayiotis Hiundis told Reuters.A senior figure from Greece's Communist Party accused Ms Rice of using the one-day visit to drum up support for an offensive against Iran, which the US accuses of trying to build a nuclear bomb
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