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where the movie makes another chance he takes

odds are he want to live to see tomorrow

Secret agent, man, secret agent man

man

man they've given you a number

and taking you a number and taking away your name.

Welcome, my friends, welcome you to this June 15th 2007 edition of the Corbett Report.

I am your host James Corbett podcasting to you as always from the sunny climes of Western Japan.

Next week, June 23rd, will mark the 22nd anniversary of the Air India disaster.

Anniversaries of course are not important in and of themselves, but they do give us a chance to

reflect on things that have passed and to ask questions about those events.

It is in that spirit that I turn the resources of our open source intelligence investigation

to the events of the Air India Flight 182 disaster and its subsequent investigation.

First some background about Air India, Flight 182.

On June 23rd, 1985, a 747 took off from Toronto on its way to London, Heathrow, en route to

an eventual destination of Bombay. The flight exploded at an

altitude of 31,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean just south of Ireland. All 307 passengers and 22 flight crew on board were killed.

Moments earlier, a second bomb, which had been intended for Air India 301 bound for Bangkok, went off at Nureta International Airport in Tokyo,

killing two baggage handlers and injuring four.

Suspicion for the bombing quickly came to rest with a group calling itself Babar Kulsa.

It was a Sikh separatist group devoted to creating a Sikh state in the Punjab.

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