A draft bill tabled by the leftist SYRIZA government may offer a “get out of jail card” to convicted “November 17” assassin Savvas Xiros in the coming period, yet another government who lost five of its diplomats and military personnel to the ultra-marxist terror gang apparently hasn’t forgotten the case.

The US embassy, via its Facebook account, posted a message on Friday in remembrance of USN Capt. William Nordeen, whose car was bombed by the terrorists in June 1988.

Savvas, one of three Xiros brothers convicted as members of the far-leftist group, blew off a good portion of his right hand, lost much of his eyesight and hearing in a blast caused by a bomb he was planting at the port of Piraeus in June 2002.

With the premature blast, alternately blamed on a cheap alarm clock, Xiros’ attempt to cram it into a crevice behind a ticket kiosk or just plain shoddy construction, “N17’s” days were numbered, with more than a score of suspects arrested over the summer of 2002 and later tried and convicted.

The Facebook account reads:

“…In honor of our fallen: Captain William Edward Nordeen, U.S. Navy, was serving as the Defense and Naval Attaché at the U.S. Mission to Greece when he was murdered on June 28, 1988 by the terrorist organization November 17.

The 51 year-old U.S. Navy officer was driving in an armor-plated sedan near Athens when a car bomb was detonated next to him via remote control. He was thrown from the car and killed by the blast. Nordeen was survived by his wife, Patricia, son William E. Nordeen II and daughter Annabel. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors. Captain Nordeen was one of five American embassy employees killed by the November 17 terrorist organization.

Savvas Xiros was convicted in the murder of Captain Nordeen, as well as in the March 13, 1991 murder of TSgt. Ronald Stewart, U.S. Air Force, who was serving at a Hellenikon Air Base in Greece, as well as attacks that killed eight other individuals. He was convicted for firing a rocket at the U.S. Embassy, for participating in 71 attempted murders (including an attack on a bus carrying U.S. military personnel), for 41 illegal explosions, and for 13 robberies and attempted robberies…”

Later in the day, US ambassador to Greece David Pearce @daviddpearce Tweeted the following:
“Remembering our fallen: Capt Bill Nordeen, U.S. Defense Attaché, Athens. @syriza_gr @tsipras_eu @PanosKammenos http://fb.me/44CPpQyiY ”