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Thursday, October 13, 2011

The French Agosta subs and Karachi-Gate affair

Agosta-90BOn May 2002, eleven French submarine engineers and four Pakistanis were killed in a car bomb attack in Karachi next to the Sheraton Hotel. This was blamed on al-Qaeda terrorists.

Not many people remember that the entire New Zealand Cricket team, staying in the Pearl Continental opposite, was about to board a bus to the National Cricket Stadium when the bomb went off.

An investigation is underway in France to look the claim by kins of the French victims that this was a revenge attack by disgruntled Pakistani officials angered by the non-payment of promised commissions in the sale of three attack class Agosta 90B submarines meant for the Pakistan Navy.

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