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| India-Pakistan |
| Explosives missing from Indian ship |
| 2005-12-28 |
| Via ThreatsWatch India's defence and interior ministries were investigating how 100 tonnes of explosives went missing from a merchant navy ship bound for Iran, officials said Wednesday. The six missing containers of explosives were intended for road construction in Afghanistan where India's Border Road Organisation was constructing a highway. "About 100 tonnes of explosives meant for the Border Road Organisation in Afghanistan were reported missing on the 26th (of December)," said a government official who did not wish to be named. "We are treating this as a serious security matter," the official said. The captain and six crew of the Iran-bound ship were detained for questioning. The ship set sail from the western city of Mumbai city Thursday for the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas where the consignment was to be offloaded to be taken to the project site in Afghanistan. The containers were discovered to be missing just 10 to 15 nautical miles off Mumbai. The official said the captain's claim that the cargo was lost as the sea was choppy was being investigated. He said officials from customs, police, Indian navy, coast guard and other security agencies were enquiring into the incident. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #4 As Scooby would say: Ruh, roh! |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2005-12-28 18:26 |
| #3 I'm wondering if they could not buy the explosives from Iran.. Granted it is Indian foreign aid and local suppliers will be used but this is rather sensitive cargo to be shipping like this... |
| Posted by: john 2005-12-28 17:35 |
| #2 India shipping explosives to the mouth of the Persian Gulf and then through Iran. 100 tonnes missing aside, is this a good idea? Does Afghanistan need level highways bad enough to justify this? |
| Posted by: Darrell 2005-12-28 16:42 |
| #1 he Director of the shipping company Unimarine Ltd Samsu Sheroff said about six hours after the ship had sailed, the vessel encountered a very choppy sea and the master of the ship reported that one of the containers in the deck been loosened and might fall in the sea... When the ship was asked on December 24 to return to Indian territory, the master turned around to come to Mumbai and "in the bargain other five containers on board were lost.... BS. This has Bombay Mafia written all over it... and these folk supply the jihadi groups.. Gawd... one hundred tons of explosives... |
| Posted by: john 2005-12-28 16:25 |