Back in the 70s it was plutonium from a Canadian reactor that India used in its first nuclear explosion and in 1998 it shocked the world with a series of nuclear bomb tests. |
I'm very disappointed in our boys program, which begins and ends with me. I'd never take anything away from another team, but (East Texas Christian) didn't win the game, we lost it. |
In fact, they're going to continue on their mission up in this region. I guess it's a small taste of what Canadians may have to expect in the weeks and months to come. |
It's not clear when or where it was going to be used, but suspicion is that it would have been used to target the coalition forces, including Canadians. |
The idea being to perhaps keep them on edge, to keep them from going outside of their camps, and perhaps even make them reconsider deploying their troops to this war-torn area. |
There are mountains on both sides which makes it an ideal place for them to hide. |
These soldiers travel this route every day, back and forth to the base, and when they do they face this risk. And they are sitting ducks, and they know it. |