ATHENS, Dec 13 (Reuters) – November 17, the Greek urban guerrilla group that gunned down British diplomat Stephen Saunders on an Athens street six months ago, said on Wednesday he was their most important target in 25 years. In a statement published by the daily Eleftherotypia newspaper, the group repeated its claims that Saunders, the defense attaché at the British embassy in Athens, was deeply involved in the Kosovo war. “Brigadier Saunders was the No. 1 at the embassy. He was the most important target we have hit in our 25 years of action,” it said.  November 17 shot Saunders on his way to work on June 8. He was their 23rd victim since the killing of CIA Station Chief Richard Welch in 1975. No one from the group has ever been caught. Britain has denied that Saunders was directly involved in the Kosovo war, a conflict that was deeply unpopular in Greece. Scotland Yard has been working with Greek counterparts to track down Saunders’s killers and Greece has pledged to step up the fight against terrorism, particularly ahead of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. In its statement, November 17 said that it had used two guns to kill Saunders and questioned why Greek police had not made this public. It said that as well as a .45 caliber pistol that is its trademark weapon it had used a G-3 semiautomatic. “Hiding that fact runs counter to their (the Greek police’s) desperate attempts to gather any information from eyewitnesses,” it said. The group said it used the G-3 in case the car Saunders was driving was armored, which it said it was not. It criticized the British government for not providing such an “important military official” with an armored vehicle.

Conclusions:
1. They drove up on a motorcycle with a high-powered rifle visible and no one noticed?
2. Tell clients, where motorcycle attacks are a possibility that they need to spend some time looking in the rear and side-view mirrors.