Greek police said yesterday they found guns and two hideouts used by a prominent far-left extremist group, Revolutionary Struggle, after arresting six alleged members.
Police chief Lefteris Oikonomou said two nine-millimetre handguns, bullets and over €119,000 in cash were found in a backpack stored in the boot of a car belonging to one of the suspects.
Neither of the guns have been matched to the group's known attacks, he said.
In one of two computer hard disks also stashed in the car boot, the police found fake identity cards and over a dozen manifestos claiming Revolutionary Struggle attacks, including bomb strikes against ministries and banks, an attempt against the life of a minister and a rocket strike against the US embassy in Athens.
The hard disks also contained information on Greek politicians, businessmen and journalists, the addresses of quarries and other companies employing explosives, bomb guidelines, and information on armoured car models.
The police also found two hideouts allegedly used by the group in the central Athens district of Kypseli, Mr Oikonomou said.
Six alleged members of the group, including a woman who is six months pregnant, were arrested over the weekend.
Revolutionary Struggle, which appeared in 2003, is deemed by authorities to be the country's most dangerous far-left organisation and is on a European Union and a US list of terrorist organisations.
The United States put a bounty on the group after it fired a rocket at the US embassy in Athens in 2007 without injuring anyone. Other strikes include a bombing attack on the Athens Stock Exchange in September and several banks.
Greece has seen a wave of attacks by far-left groups following the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old boy by a policeman in December 2008 that also sparked protests and street violence around the country.
Greece and the US have offered a combined $2-million (€1.5-million) reward for information leading to the dismantling of the group.
Revolutionary Struggle is considered the successor of November 17, the extremist organisation that killed 23 people between 1975 and 2000 before its demise in 2002.
In contrast to November 17, Revolutionary Struggle has not killed anyone - but nearly did in January 2009 when it ambushed a police patrol behind the Greek culture ministry and seriously injured a young patrolman.