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Kanishka tragedy could have been avoided: CSIS
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India Abroad
06-13-2003
A senior investigator at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service
reportedly admitted one year after the June 23, 1985, Air-India tragedy
that CSIS agents might have prevented the deaths of 331 people if they had
recognized the sound of a home-made bomb that was tested in the woods near
Vancouver a few weeks before the disaster.
The home-made device was reportedly tested by Babbar Khalsa leader
Talwinder Singh Parma...
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