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UAE, China: C-130 Shenanigans?

Sep 8, 2009 | 17:43 GMT

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Summary

A United Arab Emirates air force C-130 has been detained in India while apparently en route to China. Though few details are available, the particulars so far are hardly routine. One of the pilots reportedly confessed that the cargo was military in nature; and although the flight was cleared for transiting India, the cargo was not.

A strange incident in Calcutta raises questions about a flight -- and particularly its cargo -- from the United Arab Emirates to China....

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