A Russian plane registered in Georgia and staffed by a crew from Kazakhstan and Belorussia stopped in Bangkok for refueling enroute between Pyongyang and Sri Lanka. Acting on a tip, Thai police searched the plane and found 40 tons of heavy weaponry. Read the details in this Times Online report.
Thai Police Seize 40 tons of NK weapons
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The weapons ultimate destination is believed to be Pakistan. This makes me wonder why the Pakistanis need weapons and surface to air missiles from North Korea for? Could these weapons ultimate destination be to the Taliban?
The weapons ultimate destination is believed to be Pakistan.
Source?
Pakistan is mentioned as a possible final destination at the end of the Times article linked in the OP.
As Sonagi said at the end of the Times article it mentions Pakistan as the possible final destination. The AP is reporting the same thing.
I’m getting the same from AP, Pakistan or the Middle East. If Pakistan is the final destination, it would raise some interesting questions since they have been receiving a bundle from the US in military aid. Makes you wonder what the reaction will be if the end user is the Taliban.
I denounce myself in advance for saying so, but I kinda wish this transport plane could have gotten a missile shot up its tailpipe, just to see all that commie ordnance explode before it fell into evil hands.
Hey Mr. Taliban, tally me banana…
When they say Pakistan, do they mean it will go through the Pakistani military to the Taliban or some other factions?
This was stupid, Thai police was acting from tips from CIA. So they eventually let the real big fish getaway. They should have planted tracking device and let them go. So that they could see who was real buyer. Why Thai police done this stupidity is unknown but they sure are not smart people.
CIA maybe didn’t care where it was going to (if indeed they don’t know, which is a big assumption). I would think probably they cared more about exposing the weapons as north korean weapons.
^ So they only cared about exposing weapons came out of North Korea but didn’t cared about where it was going? That’s very stupid considering CIA is fighting against to terrorists. Also, we still don’t know if these exposed weapons were actually North Korean made. Most nasty stuffs are mostly blamed at North Korean when biggest illegal firearm exports are coming out of China, Russia and America. Most thugs and terrorists now using Chinese/Russian weapons not North Korean arms.
If CIA cared more about where it’s going, they wouldn’t have tipped off the Thais.
Why aren’t all flights in and out of North Korea being monitored and suspected gun running planes trailed for their final destination?
Were these arms manufactured in North Korea?
The article make no mention of where the aircraft originated from. It says it made a pit stop in Thailand for refueling, where it was apprended. It also says that it was bound for Sri Lanka for additional refueling. The Ilyushin-76 cargo aircraft has a range of 5000 km. It could have made the trip to Pakistan from Thailand without stopping in Sri Lanka. Why did it need to stop in Sri Lanka?
That additional fact throws a big monkey bar into the story because it is known that China is supplying weapons to the Sri Lankans to defeat the Tamil Tiger rebels. So was it really bound for Pakistan? Are the weapons really North Korean?
Something doesn’t add up here.
Reports I read say it came from NK (North Korea).
There has been multiple articles that say the plane originated from Pyongyang. Also the Tamil Tigers have been defeated by the government so these weapons aren’t going to them. I figured they were stopping in Sri Lanka to wait for the right window of opportunity to fly to their final destination if it was indeed Pakistan.
I just caught “…Police seize 40 tons…” and thought, “Oh, great. Here we go again.”
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