Time
November 4, 2010
The two baby-faced young men who faced a Greek prosecutor Thursday on terrorism charges were caught carrying small parcel bombs that, according to some reports, were only about as powerful as firecrackers. But Panagiotis Argyrou, 22, and Gerasimos Tsakalos, 24, set off international panic this week for their alleged involvement in a letter-bomb plot that sent at least 14 booby-trapped packages to several embassies in Athens and the offices of three high-profile European leaders.
While three of the letter bombs, the first of which were discovered Monday, reached their intended targets, only one caused injury. A woman at a private courier company was lightly burned when one of the packages detonated in her hands. But fear spread worldwide after potentially deadly explosives from Yemen were found last Friday on a cargo plane bound for the U.S.
Greece has suspended delivery of all international air mail until Friday, and at least five more suspicious packages were found today. But police and terrorism experts say the Greek mail bombs have no connection to the Yemen bombs or the al-Qaeda brand of international terrorism associated with the cargo-plane plot. "This is the work of a small group of radicals who are isolated from and by Greek society," Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas told TIME on Wednesday. "The whole of Greek society is fighting them."
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