Snipers, Commandos to Welcome Merkel in Greece
October 08, 2012 at 07:44 AM EDT
Debt-swamped Greece braced for two days of strikes, protests and potential violence as German Chancellor Angela Merkel, long demonized for her tough-talking, austerity-minded approach to Europe's deepening woes, prepared to visit the epicenter of the crisis, three years since it began here.