When I heard some details re the attack on the Sri Lankan Cricket Team in Lahore, there was one thing that made me, well, wonder: Apparently the Pakistani team was meant to travel in the same convoy as the Sri Lankan team, but was "delayed" on that morning. Apparently I was not the only one wondering:
Someone knew: Broad points finger over terror attack
ICC match referee Chris Broad has suggested that someone had advance knowledge of the attack on Sri Lanka's cricket team in Lahore and held back the Pakistan players' bus to keep them out of danger.
The Briton says he has no evidence of a conspiracy but pointed out that the bus carrying the Pakistan team in Lahore departed on its journey to the Gaddafi Stadium five minutes after the Sri Lanka bus.
Broad said that, although the teams travelled at different times in a previous Test match, the buses had travelled together on the first two days of the second Test in Lahore.
Source: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/03/ ... 35147.html
The Australian umpire Simon Taufel also had his thoughts on the matter:
He said he was relieved to have got out alive but was angry he and the other umpires were stranded in a "war zone".
"You tell me why supposedly 25 armed commandos were in our convoy and when the team bus got going again we were left on our own," Taufel said
Taufel said that, when a policeman got onto the bus, he thought they were saved, but then watched with dismay as the officer threw himself over injured umpire Ahsan Raza, "trying to save his own life".
"Chris Broad said: 'What are you doing in here, you should be outside defending us' and Chris then asked him to get in the front seat and drive.
"He said: 'I can't drive, I don't know how to drive.' :shock:
Source: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/03/ ... 36696.html
That doesn't sound like they put their elite commandos on duty that morning, does it? Were the killed police men pawns? Were certain Pakistani officials in on this?
Any thoughts?
Someone knew: Broad points finger over terror attack
ICC match referee Chris Broad has suggested that someone had advance knowledge of the attack on Sri Lanka's cricket team in Lahore and held back the Pakistan players' bus to keep them out of danger.
The Briton says he has no evidence of a conspiracy but pointed out that the bus carrying the Pakistan team in Lahore departed on its journey to the Gaddafi Stadium five minutes after the Sri Lanka bus.
Broad said that, although the teams travelled at different times in a previous Test match, the buses had travelled together on the first two days of the second Test in Lahore.
Source: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/03/ ... 35147.html
The Australian umpire Simon Taufel also had his thoughts on the matter:
He said he was relieved to have got out alive but was angry he and the other umpires were stranded in a "war zone".
"You tell me why supposedly 25 armed commandos were in our convoy and when the team bus got going again we were left on our own," Taufel said
Taufel said that, when a policeman got onto the bus, he thought they were saved, but then watched with dismay as the officer threw himself over injured umpire Ahsan Raza, "trying to save his own life".
"Chris Broad said: 'What are you doing in here, you should be outside defending us' and Chris then asked him to get in the front seat and drive.
"He said: 'I can't drive, I don't know how to drive.' :shock:
Source: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/03/ ... 36696.html
That doesn't sound like they put their elite commandos on duty that morning, does it? Were the killed police men pawns? Were certain Pakistani officials in on this?
Any thoughts?