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Strategies & Market Trends : India Coffee House
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To: JPR who wrote (10369)12/28/1999 9:08:00 PM
From: JPR  Read Replies (3) of 12475
 
New Delhi: India has apparently dispatched a team of crack commandoes aboard the relief plane that
flew into Kandahar on Monday. The plane was carrying a team of seven officials to negotiate with the
hijackers of the Indian Airlines Flight IC-814.

Other persons on board the plane were seven engineers and technicians, two doctors and a nurse.
There were also 13 crew members to fly the hijacked plane back in the event of the hijackers lifting their
siege. While these total 30, there has been no explanation for the presence of the 22 unidentified
members on the plane.

Top government sources indicated that the unnamed 22 comprised crack commandos specially trained
for rescue operations. The team itself was sent to Afghanistan after Taliban chief Mullah Mohammed
Omar gave an undertaking to the Indian government that no hostage would come to any harm.

The government began concretising its responses to the hijack only after it received the assurance, some
time early on Monday.Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee?s assurance to relatives of the crew who
met him on Monday evening that no harm would come to anyone on the plane is said to have arisen out
of Omar?s assurance: Vajpayee even said that they (the relatives) could hold him responsible and even
?hang? him if harm befell any of the passengers or crew. In a measure seen as kicking off the end-game
of the crisis, the Taliban council ? the Shura ? will meet to discuss the matter.

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