Greek parcel bomb targets Merkel

German police disarm potentially harmful package at chancellor's office hours after similar parcels go off in Athens.

A spokesman for the German chancellor said the package from Greece 'would have been able to harm people' [AFP] Police have disarmed a potentially harmful package at the German chancellor's office that arrived from Greece, just hours after similar small parcel bombs exploded outside the Russian and Swiss embassies in the Greek capital of Athens. A spokesman for Angela Merkel, the chancellor, said the suspicious package, intercepted in the mailroom of her office, was personally addressed to the German leader and "would have been able to harm people''. Thomas de Maiziere, the German interior minister, said that not only did the package have a Greek return address, but authorities had been able to trace that it had been sent from Greece two days ago. "It contained an explosive device. Based on everything that we know, it was built in the same way and visually resembled the package that exploded at the Swiss embassy in Athens,'' de Maiziere said. Meanwhile in Greece police detonated suspect packages found at the cargo terminal of

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