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Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 11:20 am Post subject: Canada 'warned' of Air India plot

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6610261.stm

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Canadian police were warned of a plot to blow up an airliner months before 329 people were killed in a bombing in 1985, a public inquiry has heard.

An unidentified witness said he had been approached by the plotters to help plant a bomb on an aircraft.

Air India Flight 182 blew up off the Irish coast on its way from Canada to India, killing everyone on board.

A criminal trial sentenced one suspect to five years. The inquiry is now looking at how the case was handled.

Two other suspects were acquitted in 2005 after one of the longest and most expensive trials in Canadian history.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4357235.stm

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Tapes destroyed

After charges against Parmar were dropped in 1985, the next embarrassment for the investigation came with the news that the Canadian secret services (CSIS) had destroyed tapes of telephone calls made by Sikhs suspected of involvement in the Air India case.

In his verdict this week, the judge in the trial described this as "unacceptable negligence" but members of parliament who have called for an inquiry regard it as far more serious than that.

In 2000 a former secret services officer told the Toronto Globe and Mail newspaper he had destroyed the 150 hours of tapes rather than hand them over to the Mounties, because he feared the identity of informants would be revealed.

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