Greek activists’ banner on the Acropolis saying ‘Powel killer go home’ hours before a scheduled visit by the U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (news – web sites) to Greece August 28, 2004. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell cancelled plans to attend the Olympics closing ceremonies in Greece because of the ‘press of business’ including crises in Iraq (news – web sites) and Sudan, U.S. officials said on Saturday. The decision was unrelated to anti-U.S. protests by about 1,000 people in Athens on Friday that were broken up when police hurled tear gas at demonstrators headed toward the U.S. Embassy, said U.S. State Department spokesman Kurtis Cooper.
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