The tangled web of a failed terror plot

One of the two Pakistani nationals arrested for planning to bomb a Jewish restaurant in central Athens, which doubled as a cultural and religious center, has already admitted his part in the plan, Kathimerini understands.

The two will face an examining magistrate and a prosecutor Saturday.

The operation, code-named "Hyacinth," which led to the arrests of the two suspects, was a joint operation of Greece's National Intelligent Service (EYP) and the Hellenic Police's counterterrorism unit; Israel acknowledged Tuesday the cooperation of its own intelligence agency, Mossad, in the operation, though not the extent of its involvement.

It turns out that the Athens operation, which would result in the first known foreign terror strike in Greece since 9/11, was not an isolated plot, but has to be seen in the context of the Israel-Iran rivalry.

The Athens...