Europe ; Bus Hijackers Hold 11 in Athens, Demand $1 Million
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As the standoff gripped the nation, Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis postponed his departure for a European Union summit in Brussels by one day until Thursday.
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A hostage on a hijacked Greek bus said  in a mobile phone call from the vehicle Wednesday that her  captors wanted to fly to Russia and were armed with guns and  explosives.
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The U.S. embassy in Athens on Thursday reposted a $1 million reward for information leading to the arrest of unknown attackers who launched a grenade strike on its building a year ago.
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A woman hostage gets off a hijacked bus as special police forces surround it in eastern Athens Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2004. A Greek public bus with about 26 people aboard was hijacked and shots were fired at police.
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Two gunmen hijacked a bus with 25 passengers on board today, demanding $1 million dollars and a plane to fly them to Russia.
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A hijacked bus is seen on a street some 30 kilometres north of Athens December 15, 2004. Greek police forces surrounded the bus after two armed men hijacked it early Wednesday morning with 26 passengers
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Greek police surrounded a bus carrying  26 passengers that was seized by two armed hijackers along a  highway from an Athens suburb on Wednesday, police said.
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ATHENS (Greece): Greek police surrounded a bus filled with passengers that had been seized by gunmen in the Athens suburb of Marathon early on Wednesday, Greek police said.
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ARMED police and negotiators were today surrounding a bus after it was hijacked in Athens. Two men with a shotgun - who also claimed to have explosives - had boarded the vehicle at a bus stop.
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ATHENS : Armed men hijacked a bus in an Athens suburb early Wednesday, taking some 20 passengers aboard hostage, a police source said.
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ATHENS, Greece - A hostage standoff ended near Athens, Greece (search), seemingly without a shot fired, nearly 19 hours after two gunmen seized a bus carrying 26 people and threatened to blow it up.
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Two suspected Albanians armed with rifles and dynamite hijacked a packed passenger bus in Athens and warned they would "light the fuse" if a Thursday deadline for payment of a $1 million ransom was not met.
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A Greek bus hostage siege ended in the early hours of this morning when all 23 passengers were safely freed and two Albanian gunmen who had demanded a $1 million ransom surrendered, a police spokesman said.
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A Greek bus hostage siege ended on  Thursday when all 23 passengers were safely freed and two  Albanian gunmen who had demanded a $1 million ransom  surrendered, a police spokeswoman said.
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Two gunmen thought to be Albanians  hijacked a Greek bus with 26 passengers on Wednesday and  demanded a $1 million ransom and a plane to fly them to Russia.
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Two foreign gunmen hijacked a Greek bus carrying 26 passengers on Wednesday and demanded to go to Athens airport to leave the country.
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ATHENS: Gunmen holding six people hostage in a bus near Athens threatened to blow up the vehicle on Thursday morning unless their demands for a ransom and safe conduct out of the country were met.