Huge arms haul intrigues India

[MetaTrope]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow/608934.cms

The firepower involved may be enough to keep an army brigade in fighting fettle for a year, but one week after the chance discovery near Chittagong of a massive illegal arms shipment, Indian and Bangladeshi officials have no idea who shipped the weapons or whom they were intended for.

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"1290 AK-47s, 1.1 million rounds, 25,020 grenades, 840 rockets - we've never seen anything remotely this big before," an official said.

[xchrom]

1. fighting fettle?

there's a turn of phrase you don't hear often.

[Veggie Meathead]

2. In order to understand this you have to recall that Indian

people are the last true Englishmen left on earth, probably from their
colonial heritage.

[yltlatl]

3. My guess is...

arms for either kashmiri paramilitaries or tibetan insurgents. Anyone who has a clue want to weigh in?

[jmcgowanjm]

4. Story about 26 policemen killed East India days ago

see if I can find it.

[jmcgowanjm]

5. Here it is-India land mine attack kills 26 police

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=India%20Police%20Killed

Also Nepal is experiencing some serious fighting.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

6. We have "advisors" in Nepal, too.

[yltlatl]

7. So maybe the arms were for this

People's War Group... Now who would want them to have plenty of weapons? Pakistan?