Vancouver — RCMP interviewed the suspected mastermind of the Air-India disaster shortly before the bombings killed 331 people but the police did not ask him what he knew about an explosion in the woods a week earlier, a recently released internal RCMP report shows.
RCMP officers, accompanied by U.S. Secret Service agents, spoke to Talwinder Singh Parmar and another Air-India suspect on June 12, 1985, 11 days before the Air-India disaster.
However, the Mounties believed that the target of Sikh extremists at that time was Rajiv Gandhi, who was then the prime minister of India, and not Air-India aircraft.
Thai police say a group conspiring to bomb a string of Western targets in Bangkok wanted to carry out the attack this month, in the hope of killing as many tourists as possible. Among the targets was the Australian Embassy. Three Muslim men arrested for suspected involvement in the conspiracy faced court today, as investigators declared they had broken a cell of the feared regional terror group, Jemaah Islamiah.