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IN DEPTH: AIR INDIA
The Coverup
CBC News Online | September 8, 2003
Updated September 9, 2003


On The National September 8th and 9th, Terry Milewski weaves through 16 years of paperwork surrounding Canada's most expensive crime investigation.

Court documents related to the Air India trial suggest that CSIS agents knew immediately who their prime suspect was when the airliner was blown up. That's because they had been wire-tapping him for months.

REAL VIDEO:
The plot:
Part one (runs 12:44)
Part two (runs 9:07)

The failure:
Part one (runs 14:47)
Part two (runs 9:26)
Right from the start, one radical priest, Talwinder Singh Parmar from British Columbia, was the prime suspect in the plot to bomb Air India. It's striking how long the case took to come to trial when the prime suspect was known on day one.

Here are excerpts of court documents showing the CSIS investigation and the RCMP inquiries that followed.

Timeline:
Original documents:

The CBC's Terry Milewski has collected a number of documents used in the investigation of the crash of Air India Flight 182. See below:







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AIR INDIA MAIN PAGE INQUIRY FAQs QUOTES KEY CHARACTERS THE VICTIMS SHYLA AURORA: REMEMBERING JUJU THE VERDICTS THE REACTIONS: VICTIMS' FAMILIES THE REACTIONS MALIK FAMILY STATEMENT THE BOMBING THE COVERUP CBC NEWS STORIES, 2003-2006
TIMELINES: THE BOMBING THE DOCUMENTS THE INVESTIGATION THE TRIAL AFTER THE TRIAL
PHOTO GALLERIES: AIR INDIA MEMORIAL AIR INDIA VERDICT AIR INDIA
SIKH POLITICS IN CANADA: Main page World Sikh Organization Air India and the Anti-Terrorism Act Why is Canada's largest Sikh temple being sued by its own members? Sikh militancy and the Air India attack
VIEWPOINT: YOUR LETTERS NOTEBOOK
CBC ARCHIVES: AIR INDIA INVESTIGATION
THE NATIONAL: A RAY OF LIGHT REASONABLE DOUBT

DOCUMENTS:
"I recall my first thought ... Parmar did it ... as soon as I heard the plane went down, I thought that Parmar did it."
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AirDisaster.com page on Air India bombing

Aviation Safety Network - transcript of final minutes of Air India 182's cockpit voice recorder

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