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Mon, 09/20/2010 - 22:32
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More concerns raised over Games security
Security concerns have been raised by an Australian television news crew which says
it has filmed explosives being sold from illegal shop fronts in New Delhi, just
weeks before the Commonwealth Games begin in the Indian capital.
The Seven Network news crew secretly filmed the sale of ammonium nitrate and a range
of other explosives, in a report shown on its news broadcast on Monday night.
They also filmed a salesman offering them a remote detonation kit, which could
trigger up to 200 explosions, in a restaurant carpark. The kit was built into a
rolling suitcase.
Seven says they took the suitcase casing and repeatedly breezed past armed police
security at the main arena for the Commonwealth Games.
Ammonium nitrate was the explosive used by in the 2002 Bali Bombing and in the
Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995.
Security concerns surrounding the Games, starting on October 3, have been heightened
by an attack on tourists on Sunday.
The outlawed terror group Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the attack in
which gunmen on motorcycles fired at a tourist bus at the Jama Masjid mosque
injuring two Taiwanese nationals.
Indian Mujahideen warned they were preparing for a "great surprise" during the
October 3-14 Games.
But the Commonwealth Games Federation has dismissed any link between Sunday's mosque
shooting and the Games.