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To: Lola who wrote (9079)	10/29/2001 10:42:07 PM
From: isopatch	Respond to of 27666

Thanks. Excellent article/eom

To: Lola who wrote (9079)	10/30/2001 1:21:50 AM
From: Glenn Petersen	Respond to of 27666

What the hell? India is stuffing Afghans into toilets and smuggling them into Heathrow. <ggg> in.news.yahoo.com Afghans hide in Air India toilets, reach Britain NEW DELHI (Reuters) - At least two Afghans hid in toilets on an Air India plane and reached London without passports, valid tickets or visas and sought asylum, newspapers reported on Tuesday. The stowaways boarded an Air India flight from Bombay to London with a stopover in New Delhi on Sunday. But instead of disembarking in New Delhi, they stayed on the plane, the Hindustan Times said. The paper quoted officials of the state-run airline as saying two Afghan nationals hid in the toilets and managed to reach London without being detected. "The two men rushed to immigration at Heathrow and demanded political asylum. They were taken away for interrogation," Air India's commercial director V.K. Verma was quoted as saying. The Economic Times, however, said there were four Afghans on the flight who made it to London without travel documents. A spokesman for the airline declined to make any immediate comment on the newspaper reports. The security breach coincided with the start of the government's Aviation Security Week designed to reinforce security measures at airports around the country. India has been on heightened alert since the September 11 air assaults on the United States. There have been two hijack scares in India since then.