| Intelligence shows al Qaeda has plans to target merchant shipping in a bid to disrupt world trade, Britain's top Navy officer said in an interview published on Thursday. "We have got an underlying level of intelligence which shows there is a threat," the Royal Navy's First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral Sir Alan West, was quoted as saying by Lloyd's List maritime newspaper. The Defense Ministry confirmed West had given the interview in which he reiterated previous warnings about the threat of an attack on the world's commercial fleets |