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GREECE IS A GREAT PLACE to spend one’s Fourth of July. After all, it is the birthplace of democracy. And there is never any shortage of metaphorical fireworks. The pyrotechnics have been especially volatile over the last week. My wife and I experienced both a near-mutiny at sea and a semi-close brush with a terror attack. The mutiny occurred Saturday, when we set out from Athens to our secret island hideaway in the Saronic Gulf. We took the 5 pm Flying Dolphin hydrofoil from Piraeus. After some time, we noticed that the boat was chugging along at a dead crawl,...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A suspected member of the deadly November 17 terrorist group confessed Sunday to the murder of British military attache Brig. Stephen Saunders, state-run television said. Savas Xiros told investigators he fired the shots at Saunders after his accomplices' weapon jammed, state-run NET television reported. ``I shot Saunders ... I fired four times,'' Xiros said in 10 hours of testimony from his hospital bed, according to NET. Saunders was killed in June 2000. NET said Xiros confessed to involvement in nine killings and dozens of bomb and rocket attacks, and apologized to the families of his victims....