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Consignment from China

Reveals an interview of defence magazine representative to Prothom Alo
Anthony Davis, representative of Asia Region of Jane's Intelligence Review (JIR), a UK-based leading defence magazine of the world, said that the seizure of 10 truckloads of arms in Chittagong was not a normal event.
Seizure of arms was nothing but an accident, he added.
Before smuggling arms consignment it was ensured that everything was okay so as not be caught, he said.
He also said the first plan was to smuggle the arms through the Chin province in Myanmar after offloading the consignment at Cox's Bazar but sensing the route unsafe they did it through the coastal area of Chittagong.
Davis revealed the information while giving an interview to the correspondent of the Bengali daily Prothom Alo, at Bangkok February last year.
I am quite sure that the consignment seized in Chittagong originated from China. I firmly believe that the arms were pur-chased from a semi-government weapon producing factory North China Industry Corporation' through an agent of Hong Kong-based Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN), he said.
"A Pakistani intelligence agency is known to have arranged the money for the NSCN agent," he said adding, 'But there is no documentary evidence of it." FROM PAGE 16
He said that intelligence agencies like that perform their jobs so subtly that it is very hard to get any documentary evidence.
Ruling out any possibility of the presence of any Bangladeshi at the meeting held in a hotel in Bangkok about arms purchase and transportation planning, Davis said that nobody from Bangladesh knew about the matter.
But, it was supposed to be in the knowledge of intelligence agencies of Bangladesh that arms would be delivered over the land of Bangladesh, as it was hard to believe they wouldn't know about such a huge consignment of arms haul being transported through the country, he continued.
Davis believes that people involved in transportation ol arms and ammunition knew the matter.
Mentioning the huge network of India's United Liberation Front of Assam (Ulfa), he said it was gathered from different sources that Ulfa owns the two trawlers for reshipment at the outer harbour and ferrying them to the Chittagong coast.
"A reliable source of Ulfa confirmed me that they own some trawlers that travel to Chittagong," he said, adding, "Which is why, I think, they use their own trawlers for smuggling arms for their own safety and security.
When asked about his report on the Chittagong arms haul and his sources of information, he said "I have been working on such issues for long 30 years.”
"Besides, I mentioned in the report what I made out after close scrutiny of opinions of intelligence officials, information provided by people involved in the international network of arms smuggling and some reliable sources.
WHY JANE IS IMPORTANT Jane's Information Group is known worldwide as the most acceptable and information provider on defence and terrorism. About 180 government and non-government agencies are Jane’s subscribers.
Jane launched Jane's Intelligence and Jane's Terrorism and Information Centre on online in 2003 for its subscribers. John Frederick Thomas Jane, an English journalist and litterateur, published a newspaper in 1898 with a hand-drawn photo of a warship and named it as Ironclads of the World.
In 1909, another issue was published with a photo of
aeroplane on the cover page. Jane was the founder of the British Intelligence agency MI5. With the passage of time the very defence-related magazine of Tomas Jane turned into 'Jane’s Information Group'.
Jane's Defence Weekly has regularly been published since 1984. Jane's Intelligence Review is another magazine of the group. It publishes investigative and research reports on international security, regional conflict, organised crime and arms smugglings.
Anthony Davis has been working as an investigative journalist in the Londonbased Jane's Information Group since 1988. Before that, he worked with many powerful newspapers like Washington Post, London Observer, Time and Asia Week.
Conflict in Afghanistan, Kashmir crisis, Sri Lanka's ethnic crisis, activities of the terrorist groups of Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand and the Philippines and emergence of militancy in Bangladesh are among the issues he wrote on.
Davis has long been preparing reports on arms smuggling and terrorist activities through spot investigation. His first report on the Chittagong arms haul was published on May 1,2004.
His second investigative and informative report on the same issue came out on August 1 the same year. On July 1,2006, Davis's investigative report on emergence of militancy in Bangladesh was published.
Later, the Prothom Alo contacted the JIR and fixed the date of meeting with Anthony Davis. In the last week of February last year, the Prothom Alo correspondent met Davis in Bangkok.