Crooked in Canada

I really doubt anybody younger than 25 knows anything about the 1985 Air India bombings, the deadliest terrorist attack before 9/11, and other then what they hear in media reports or read in newspapers I wouldn’t expect them too know who Ripuduman Singh Malik is, or that he was acquitted in 2005 for the role he is alleged to have played in the terrorist attack that was planned and executed from Canada.

Why would they care about Malik anyway, he’s a Sikh terrorist, not a Muslim one like the one that has been sitting in Guantanamo Bay fooling Canadians into thinking he isn’t a terrorist or a threat to Canada.

Anyway Malik has decided to drop his malicious prosecution claim against the British Columbia government, and will not be pursuing the matter.  It’s the smart thing for him to do, especially when one considers that a lawsuit against the government could very well create a lot of headaches and problems for him, the kind of problems he was faced with when he was targeted as a suspect in the Air India case in the first place.

Or, maybe the federal government reached some sort of secret agreement with Singh which will see him walk away with a little bit of Canadian taxpayer’s money.

Nevertheless Malik has decided that it would be in his best interests to drop his statement of claim that the BC government maliciously prosecuted him (wasn’t it the feds who motivated the BC government into prosecuting Singh to begin with?) and now the only case he has to focus on is the one that the BC government has brought against him to reclaim the millions Malik was lent so that he could fund his legal team.

Why they lent Malik the money to begin with is beyond me. Since when do provincial and federal governments lend money to suspected terrorists to fund their legal team? That sounds a little f**ked up to me, doesn’t it to you?

In a new statement of defence Malik filed in that particular case he has taken out all references to Liberal MP Ujal Dosanjh, the man he claims is the reason he was charged with terrorism offences in the first place. For some reason Malik believes that the charges he was acquitted of were laid to advance the political career of Dosanjh.  Hmm, do you think the feds could have had anything to do with Malik dropping his claim?  Do you think the Harper government could have flashed some cash Malik’s way to convince him to drop a case that would have cost the federal and BC provincial government a lot of money and embarrassment in the long run whether Malik won his claim or not? Surely that lawsuit would have caused more headaches for both governments then fighting the lawsuit in a long drawn out affair that like I said could have embarrassed them.

Don’t get me wrong, had Malik moved forward with his lawsuit things could have turned out worse than he expected for himself after all he would have had to answer questions about the evidence that was gathered to charge him in the first place, and his answers could have and likely would have led to further investigations of him and his role in the bombing of Air India flight 128 in which 329 people on board were blown to bits, including 280 Canadian citizens.

At the end of the day, and irregardless of the fact that Malik was found not guilty of the terrorism charges he faced, I think he had plenty to do with the Air India bombing, that even though he didn’t build the bomb, he was the money man behind the plot.

Think about it, he is a member of Babbar Khalsa, a terrorist organisation that has been responsible for many terrorist attacks in Punjab, and then of course the fact that he is suspected of paying for the bombing of the Kanishka. Malik has so far manage to avoid being made accountable for his terrorist activities and associations, and had he pursued his lawsuit he would have opened himself up to even greater scrutiny of his activities, in fact I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if the federal government is still secretly investigating Malik and it is that investigation that is motivating Malik into rethinking his stance.

Ripudaman Singh Malik is a terrorist; it’s just that our national security agencies haven’t been able to build a strong enough case against him, if only because Malik hides behind Canada’s constitutional rights to keep authorities at bay. His time is coming however, and he will be held accountable for his terrorism ways even though he claims not to be a terrorist.

Personally, I think the bastard should suffer the same fate that the 329 people on board the Kanishka did, that he blown to bits, which by the way wouldn’t surprise me if it happened.

Karma is going to catch up with this particular motherf**king Sikh terrorist and it can’t come soon enough.

Profile of Ripudaman Singh Malik

Ripudaman Singh Malik, hailing from Punjab and currently based in British Columbia is one of the two terrorists remanded to judicial custody in Vancouver, British Columbia. Malik belongs to Babbar Khalsa, a terrorist outfit responsible for many terrorist incidents in Punjab. He was also a close associate of Talwinder Singh Parmar, who headed one of the Babbar Khalsa factions before being killed by the Punjab Police in 1992. Malik, who came to Canada in 1972 started off as a cab driver to later become a wealthy businessman. According to Canadian sources, he is believed to have assisted in funding the bombing of the Kanishka.

Malik is currently the President of a 16,000-member Vancouver based Khalsa Credit Union (KCU) that reportedly has assets worth $110 million. Canadian authorities have indicated that Malik manages two Khalsa educational institutions that receive financial assistance from the government of British Columbia. These educational institutions and the KCU have on many occasions been controversial due to the monetary assistance they have reportedly provided to the widow of Talvinder Singh Parmar. News sources in Canada have reported that Malik has contributed financially to the Federal Liberal Party and has also attended fundraising functions for the Canadian Premier Jean Chrétien. It is alleged that Malik has contacts with Ujjal Dosanjh, the Indo-Canadian Premier of British Columbia who was also the Attorney-General in British Columbia during the RCMP investigations. Sources in Canada have said that the RCMP conducted extensive raids in 1999 on KCU to scrutinize the activities of the International Sikh Youth Federation who held their meetings at the KCU-affiliated Khalsa school. Malik along with Ajaib Singh Bagri belong to the fundamentalist wing of the Sikh community in Canada and are reported to have waged an often violent clash with the more moderate functions for the control of lucrative gurudwaras.

Investigation into the Kanishka (Air India Flight 182) Bombing

The arrest of three Sikh terrorists in Vancouver, Canada for their alleged role in the bombing of an Air India (AI) flight on June 23, 1985 marks a crucial stage in the 15-year investigation carried out by the Canadian authorities in cooperation with the Indian government into the incident. The AI flight 182 Kanishka on June 23, 1985 from Toronto with a brief stopover at Montreal was en route to New Delhi when it exploded off, the coast of Ireland while it was preparing to land at the Heathrow airport. The mid-air explosion which killed all the 329 people on board is widely considered to be one of the world’s deadliest acts of terrorism and civilian aviation sabotage. Investigations reveal that it was one of two related bomb explosions allegedly carried out by Sikh terrorists. The other explosion occurred at the Narita airport in Tokyo killing two people.

The long drawn-out investigation, still in progress, into the AI flight bombing has been carried out by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in conjunction with police authorities in India, North America, Europe and Asia. After a 15-year probe, the RCMP on October 27, 2000 arrested two Sikh terrorists based in Canada for their alleged role in the incident. The RCMP arrested another unidentified suspect on October 29, 2000 and released him on bail after interrogating him for nearly 24 hours. The two terrorists arrested on October 27 identified as Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri have been remanded to judicial custody in Vancouver. Two other terrorist, Talwinder Singh Parmar and Inderjit Singh Reyat have been declared as co-conspirators in both the incidents. Talwinder Singh Parmar, a Babbar Khalsa terrorist was killed by the Punjab Police in 1992. Inderjit Singh Reyat was sentenced in 1991 to serve a 10-year imprisonment for manufacturing the bomb intended to blow-up the AI flight. Both Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri been charged on eight counts including criminal conspiracy and fist-degree murder.

Canadian authorities after protracted investigations have made a preliminary ascertainment to the effect that the flight was destroyed through a bomb that passed through the security-check at the Vancouver airport onto a Canadian Pacific airline. The bomb then found its way to the AI flight Kanishka in Toronto. Indications are that an unidentified suspect brought air tickets in Vancouver that allowed the two bomb-laden suitcases to pass through airport security. No passenger boarded the flight with these tickets. One of the two suitcases was transferred in Toronto to AI flight 182. The other suitcase was to have been transferred to an AI flight from Japan to India. But, the bomb exploded prematurely at the Narita airport in Tokyo killing two baggage handlers. The unidentified suspect was arrested in Canada as early as November 1985 but was released due to lack of evidence. Inderjit Singh Reyat was found guilty of manslaughter and making explosive substances among other charges and received a 10-years sentence and a firearm prohibition of 5 years for his role in the Narita airport incident.

The Canadian authorities, in the aftermath of the bombing, suspected Sikh terrorists of planting the bombs in revenge for ‘Operation Blue Star’, the 1984 security forces raid aimed at flushing out terrorists from the Golden temple in Amritsar. According to an RCMP spokesperson, the bombings were planned and organised in Canada. The Canadian probe, the longest and one of the costliest - the RCMP is reported to have already incurred an expenditure of 30 million Canadian dollars - was also a complex investigative process as it had too many people to interrogate in various countries. Moreover, in the initial phase, the authorities were unsure about the place or origin of the bombs - Canada, India or elsewhere. In the light of the evidence gathered so far and the recent arrests, the RCMP is in the process of planning arrests of at least four other suspects. The RCMP also believes that the release of a third suspect-although unidentified, sources claim that it was Hardiyal Singh Johal, a ‘prominent ‘ member of the Sikh community in British Columbia- would not be a setback to the ongoing investigation process and the formal charging of the suspects in the British Columbia Supreme Court.

Immediately after the 1985 bombing of the Kanishka, the Indian government had instituted the Justice B.N Kirpal Commission of Inquiry. The main agenda of the Kirpal Commission was to explore whether AI flight 182 had crashed due to an explosion, a machine failure, or human error. It arrived at a clear conclusion that the AI flight had exploded in mid-air and had fallen into the ocean because of a bomb which had planted in Canada. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which had assisted the RCMP in its probe also constituted an investigation process. The CBI findings established that the bombing was the handiwork of Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), a terrorist outfit in Punjab and the mastermind was Talwinder Singh Parmar, a front ranking leader of the same outfit. Since the main area of investigation is in Canada, the CBI was largely associated in collecting information, documents and evidence sought by the RCMP.

Official sources in India have reported that the while the Indian government views the arrests of the terrorists as a positive development, it would wait for the completion of the probe by the Canadian authorities before deciding on any future course of action. Reports also indicate that the government has so far not made any official request for the extradition of the arrested suspects as the offence was committed in Canada and the trial is also due to take place in the same country. Moreover, there are no proceedings pending against the arrested terrorists in India.