Arms-carrying plane headed for Sri Lanka

The mystery of an aircraft seized in Thailand with a cache of North Korean weapons deepened further Wednesday when a senior Thai police officer said it was not headed to Iran as some reports have indicated.
The five-man crew charged with illegal arms possession also insisted their destination was Sri Lanka and not Iran when it was seized in the Thai capital where it made a refuelling stop, their lawyer said Wednesday.
Defence lawyer Somsak Saithong told the Associated Press shortly after visiting the jailed crew that they also denied any knowledge of accused international weapons trafficker Victor Bout, who is in the same prison battling attempts to be extradited to the United States on terrorism charges.
There has been much speculation since it was impounded Dec. 12 about where the plane was headed and whether it was linked to Bout.