Blast rips through U.S. embassy compound in Athens

I saw this breaking story on CNN TV news. I found a Yahoo News story on this bombing:

ATHENS (Reuters) - An explosion ripped through the U.S. embassy compound in central Athens on Friday, a police source said.

It was not clear what caused the blast and there was no immediate word on whether there were any casualties.

Police cordoned off all roads around the embassy.

Police officials at the scene said that whatever caused the explosion damaged the official embassy sign outside the mission, but there was little other indication of the extent of damage inside.

There is not much information yet on this story. I'll certainly be looking into this tomorrow through the MSM web pages. First thoughts--it is more than a coincidence that this blast took place just one day after Bush's surge speech, and the U.S. raid on the Iranian consulate in northern Iraq. And now we have this bombing of the American embassy in Athens, Greece.

Talk about the escalation in the level of violence here.