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  • What Rajiv Gandhi told Canada's PM after Air India blast'85

    05/02/2007 10:01:33 PM PDT · by sukhoi-30mki · 1 replies · 935+ views
    What Rajiv Gandhi told Canada PM after A-I blast May 03, 2007 09:54 IST In a phone call just after the bombing of the Air India plane in 1985, then Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had asked his Canadian counterpart why all the baggage on the flight was not removed and rechecked in Montreal when three pieces were found to be suspicious. Gandhi had suggested to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney that Canada had breached international procedures by not re-screening the luggage on Flight 182. Details of the emotionally-charged exchange were revealed on Wednesday in declassified government documents released at the...
  • (Canada) Police had hint 11 days before 1985 Air India bombing, inquiry hears

    05/01/2007 2:46:59 PM PDT · by Gengis Khan · 1 replies · 551+ views
    CBCnews ^ | May 1, 2007
    The Air India bombing inquiry has been told of a hint of coming disaster 11 days before Canada's worst mass murder. A former Vancouver police officer, Don McLean, testified Tuesday at the inquiry in Ottawa about an exchange between two men he described as Sikh militants on June 12, 1985. He quoted the first as saying: "No consuls have been killed. No ambassadors have been killed. What are you going to do? Nothing?" The reply, he said, was: "You will see something be done in two weeks." The conversation took place in the basement of the Vancouver-area home of a...
  • AI bombing: Canada not to appeal verdict

    05/05/2005 4:14:31 AM PDT · by Gengis Khan · 6 replies · 227+ views
    The Times of India ^ | WEDNESDAY, MAY 04, 2005 05:35:44 PM
    VANCOUVER: In a disappointment to relatives of the victims of the 1985 Air India bombing that killed 329 people, Canadian prosecutors have decided not to appeal against the acquittal of two main accused in the case. An e-mail sent by the Crown to relatives of the victims said: "Members of the prosecution team, senior members of the Criminal Justice (Branch), have conducted an exhaustive review and have come to the difficult decision that there are no grounds on which the Crown could launch an appeal," media reports here said today. A spokesman for the Crown would not comment. Justice Ian...