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From: jbtubman@water.UUCP (Jim Tubman [LPAIG])
Newsgroups: net.travel
Subject: Re: Airport safety
Message-ID: <671@water.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 11:37:17 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  4 11:37:17 1985
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Reply-To: jbtubman@water.UUCP (Jim Tubman [LPAIG])
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <1734@amdahl.UUCP> dss00@amdahl.UUCP (dss00) writes:
>What is even more interesting that there was almost no criticism
>of the security at Canadian airports where the explosives that
>blew Air India 182 out of the sky were put on board. Oh sure!
>That the plane was blown away by explosives is in itself a speculation.
>But then how about the bag that blew up at Narita airport?
>That one came from Canada.
>
>Its high time some thing is done to protect civilian population
>from being caught in the cross fire.
>
>Deepak S. Sabnis ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,amd,nsc}!amdahl!dss00    (408) 746-6058

Actually, there was scads of criticism of Canadian airport security.
New X-ray and explosive-sniffing machines were brought in within days.
There were also 4 hour lineups for international departures as all luggage
was searched by hand.  The big suspicion now is that the bombs may have been
an inside job (either a package given to the pilot, or a bomb placed by a
baggage handler).

India was the real target of the Air India attack; Canadians aren't worth a
terrorist's time.  It's a damn shame that Canadians were killed because of a
struggle on the other side of the world; a struggle that we could exert
little or no influence on anyway.  (It's just as bad that Indians and
Japanese were killed, too.)

						Jim Tubman
						University of Waterloo