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(From Arabies Trends)
Byline: IASON ATHANASIADIS ATHENS
In central Athens, there is another demonstration assembling outside the concrete monolith of the US embassy. Banners urging an end to the occupation in Iraq ripple in the breeze under the watchful eyes of massed vans of riot police. It is an ordinary scene in Europe's most anti-American country. Rotten fruit, stones and the occasional Molotov cocktail are lobbed at the American embassy and other symbols of the "new world order" as a matter of course.
While demonstrations against US foreign policy are part of the pulse of daily life in a country with longstanding ties to the Arab world, ...