Suez Canal attack by al-Qaida blew Irish cigarette smuggling ring

05/11/2013

Great story. Remember the rocket-propelled grenade attack on a Cosco vessel transiting the Suez Canal? Turns out that of all the containers on the ship that it could have hit, it struck one bound for Dublin, purportedly carrying furniture – only it wasn’t, it was ...

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Narasimhan Sundapalayam
November 06, 2013 at 7:18 am
A pious man would call it” nature’s Retribution.”

A Rationalist however would say it’s the “Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion”
An Indian will say ” In God’s Justice- there’s delay – not darkness’

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