The investigation by Federal Bureau of Investigation of the US into the hijacking of the Indian Airlines plane to Kandahar in Afghanistan in 1999 remains "inconclusive".
The FBI had registered a case at its headquarters in early 2000 as an American national Jeanne Moore, was on board the IC-814 plane. The sleuths had examined Moore who had spelt the word "coffin" for the hijackers when they made a list of demands to the Indian government. "We have shared everything possible. Everything means everything but the agency is yet to conclude its probe,"
CBI director Vijay Shanker told reporters here. He said the FBI team visited India six times. "Important aspects has been taken up with the us government at the highest level. We have given them the location of hijackers and those (terrorists released in return for safety of aircraft passengers) as well," he said.
Asked about the delay in completion of investigations by FBI, Shanker shot back "go and ask them. They have an office here. How can I comment on their behalf." The CBI has secured Interpol Red Corner notice against the hijackers -- Ibrahim Athar, Sunny Ahmed Qazi, Zahoor Ibrahim, Shahid Akhter Sayed and Shakir and accomplices Yusuf Azhar and Abdul Rauf, alleged to be key conspirators.
The plane, which had taken off from Kathmandu, was diverted to Amritsar and Lahore before landing at Dubai's al-Minhat airbase where 27 passengers were released and the body of 25-year-old Rupin Katyal, who had been stabbed, was thrown onto the tarmac. From there, the plane was taken to Kandahar. The plane was at Kandahar airport from December 26 to December 31.
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