Margin of Terror: A Reporter's Twenty-Year Odyssey Covering the Tragedies of the Air India Bombing

332 Pages·10.163 MB·English

by  Salim Jiwa, Donald J. Hauka

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MARGIN
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TERROR
A REPORTER’S TWENTY-YEAR ODYSSEY
COVERING THE TRAGEDIES OF
THE AIR INDIA BOMBING
SALIM JIWA
& DONALD J. HAUKA
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Jiwa, Salim
Margin of terror : the twin tragedies of the Air India bombing / Salim Jiwa and Donald
J. Hauka, Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-55263-772-7
1. Air-India Flight 182 Bombing Incident, 1985. 2. Trials (Murder)-British Columbia—
Vancouver. 3. Trials (Conspiracy)-British Columbia—Vancouver. 4. Bombing
investigation-British Columbia. 5. Terrorism-Canada. 1. Hauka, Donald J. 11. Title.
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This book is dedicated to the victims of terrorism everywhere in
the world. In particular, this dedication is to the families of the 329
people who died aboard Air India Flight 182 and the same-day
explosion in Tokyo that took two lives.

CONTENTS
Acknowledgements 19
Preface /11
1 Monks with Machine Guns: October 1981 /15
, 2 Enter the Tiger /33
3 Playing with Fire /52
4 Lost in Translation 165
5 The Terror and the Tragedy: June 1985 /86
6 The Doctor and the Rupee Man /123
7 The Duncan Project /160
8 Reduced to Ashes /195
9 On a Trail of Suspicion: 1992 to 1995 /223
10 The Brown Van: 1995 to 2003 /244
11 Day of Judgment: 2003 to 2005 /268
12 The Death of an Investigation:
A Post-mortem /292