Revolutionary Organization 17 November

Greece's conservative opposition hammered the leftist-led government on Thursday after an attack by self-styled anarchists on the office of New Democracy MP Miltiadis Varvitsiotis.

"What more, one wonders, needs to happen for the government to realize its obvious responsibilities?" the party said in a statement.

The staff of the US Embassy in Athens on Friday observed a minute's silence for members of the US Foreign Service killed by the now defunct Greek domestic terrorist group November 17.

They did so on the occasion of Foreign Affairs Day, an annual commemoration of those who lost their lives serving the US overseas.

Dimitris Koufodinas, a leading member of November 17, Greece's most deadly guerrilla group, emerged from Attica's maximum-security Korydallos Prison at 9 a.m. on Friday on a two-day leave, just three months after a previous furlough, against a strong reaction by opposition politicians and the US government.

A decision by prison authorities to grant a fresh two-day furlough to convicted November 17 terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas triggered a reaction from New Democracy lawmaker Dora Bakoyannis, whose husband, Pavlos Bakoyannis, was gunned down by the radical Marxist group outside his downtown Athens office in 1989.

New Democracy vice president Adonis Georgiadis has criticized a decision by prison authorities to grant a two-day furlough to convicted November 17 terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas.

"They are no even keeping up the pretences anymore," Georgiadis tweeted on Thursday.

A leading member of November 17, Greece's most deadly guerrilla group, has been granted another two-day leave from prison.

Dimitris Koufodinas is expected to leave the maximum security prison of Korydallos in Athens on Friday at 9 a.m.

The two suspects arrested for during the widespread riots around the area of Exarchia near the Athens Polytechnic during celebrations of November 17 were charged with the felony of possession of explosives by the 9th district prosecutor on Tuesday. The two suspects, a German and a Greek national were released after they presented their defence to both the prosecutor and investigator.

Many areas around the centre of Athens are in complete lockdown, as celebrations for the 44th anniversary of the 1974 Polytechnic uprising will culminate Friday with the traditional march towards the US Embassy later in the day.

The Greek state has deployed 7,000 police officers in the wake celebrations and events for the 44th anniversary of the Polytechnic uprising in 1974.

Just two days before the annual protest march marking the anniversary of the November 17, 1973 student uprising that precipitated the fall of the Greek junta, some 70 self-styled anarchists, including several from Albania and Central European countries, occupied the building housing the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), which used to be the Athens Polytechnic, in the city center o