Thaths wrote:
I have been following the reportage on the investigations following
the shooting at IISc some time ago.
Amidst all the media fuss over the IISC shoot out, IMO, there's been a
potentially much larger story that's being ignored.
100 tons of explosives go missing within 10 miles of the Bombay coast,
and 15 days later, there is still no sight of the missing cargo.
Now tell me this isn't scary...
~Cheeni
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4564852.stm
Containers carrying 100 tons of explosives to Afghanistan have slipped
from a cargo ship into the sea off the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay).
[...]
http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEH20051229083706&Topic=0&Title=Nation&Page=P
(bugmenot required)
Home Secretary V.K. Duggal said all states - especially those on the
western coast like Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa - had
been put on alert after the home ministry learnt that the explosives had
gone missing.
[...]
Replying to pointed questions, Duggal admitted that certain loose ends
remained in the probe into the matter.
[...]
He, however, hastened to add the situation was "very much under control"
and said navy divers had spotted certain metallic objects in the sea
that could be the six containers of explosives.
[...]
While the Eugenia dumped the first container of explosives in the
Arabian Sea Dec 22, it informed Indian authorities about this only the
following day. And it informed authorities about the dumping of the
remaining five containers only on Dec 26.
