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Explosives meant for Al-Qaeda?

Athens: The head of Greece's intelligence services said on Wednesday he could not exclude the possibility that the explosives seized from a Sudan-bound ship were intended for the extremist Al-Qaeda network of Osama bin Laden. ``The cargo is very large, I cannot imagine how Al-Qaeda could take 680 tonnes of TNT, but on the other hand, we can find out what it was intended for,'' Pavlos Apostolidis told the private Greek television channel Mega. ``So, I cannot exclude that Al-Qaeda or another group close to it was the final destination of the shipment.'' Greek authorities on Sunday seized the Baltic Sky in the eastern Mediterranean allegedly loaded with 680 tonnes of explosives, including TNT and 8,000 detonators. (In the picture, the Ukrainian captain, Anatoliy Baltak, right, is being escorted by a plainclothes police officer outside a court in Messolongi, western Greece, on Wednesday.) — AFP

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