British anti-terrorism experts in Athens

Britain has sent a team of anti-terrorism experts to Greece, following the murder of a British diplomat in Athens.

The Foreign Office said the team had been invited by the Greek authorities to liaise with their local counterparts.

Brigadier Stephen Saunders, the military attache at the British embassy ,was ambushed as he drove to work early on Thursday morning.

Police say the murder weapon, a pistol, has already been used in five attacks by the leftwing guerilla organisation, November 17.

The group has been active for twenty-five years, but none of its members has ever been caught. A BBC correspondent in Athens says it's not clear why a British diplomat was targeted, but he says Britain has been unpopular in Greece since last year's NATO intervention in Kosovo.

Many Greeks sympathize with Serbia.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service