In Greece, the left-wing group November 17 was dismantled after the arrest of 18 of its members and the seizure of its entire operational equipment. As already argued above, until 11 September 2001, terrorism was seen as a “less fundamental security threats (Krahmann 2001: 6):” within the context of expectations of peaceful change and intergovernmental cooperation, contemporary European governments are increasingly free to address less fundamental security threats than those which challenge their state borders and seek the collaboration of a broad variety of state and non-stat.