US national detained after 4” blade found in hand baggage

Reminiscent of the case of David Headley,the American national,Winston Carmichael,is also convert from Christianity to Islam.

Written by Shishir Gupta

New Delhi | February 11, 2010 09:13 AM IST

1 min read

Indian authorities have detained US national Winston Carmichael of African-American descent at the IGI airport as he found to be carrying a four inch blade embedded in aphrodisiac “Himalayan Shilajit” resin in his cabin luggage on Wednesday morning while boarding a flight to Doha,Qatar en-route to New York. Subsequent inquiries with the NYPD have revealed that Carmicheal,a convert to Islam,has earlier being charged with dug related offences and some petty crimes in the States and some discrepancies in his Indian visa application but no terror connection has been unearthed.

Government sources said that the CISF at IGIA detained Carmicheal as he could not provide satisfactory answers to queries on why he was carrying the blade. His past record has revealed that he had travelled to Pakistan and then flown to Bangladesh before coming to India. He crossed into India from Haridaspur border on Indo-Bangladesh border.

However,as of now no terror connection has been revealed and further investigations are on.

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