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[Mikiko]

its not right to blame the president only beacuse If the public sector system handled the dangerous cargo differently and all safety measures were taken then this distster could have been avoided. It is the way the whole public sector is functioning with no rensbonsibility . ( See the article below in Politis paper ) This has been the case before Chrystofias was in charge and obvioulsy Chrystofias can not change the system alone.

http://www.politis.com.cy/cgibin/hweb?- ... V=articles

PASYDI were always against measures affecting rights of the employees in the government even if these rights were essential to make the public sector more effective . What is needed is less state . public sector to be reduced and more functions to be offered to the private sector . Public sector will always be ineffective and disfunctional.

[Kikapu]

Kasoulides. Had he been the President, all these people taking pot shots against Christofias would have been very crossed with him because for sure he would have handed the boxes to the Americans (the right thing to do) but as every one knows, the extreme right in Cyprus, just like the soviet-style left, have antiamericanism as their pastime hobby.

Bananiot,

This question has been bothering me for some time now. Perhaps you can answer it for me.

Is it possible, that all the weapons from the containers were removed a while back to supply the CNG, and instead, they were replaced with high explosives and the whole explosion thing was a deliberate arrangement in order to conceal the seizure of the weapons by the CNG. The only problem was, they may have used just a little bit too much explosives. What do you think.?

[Bananiot]

Oh my God Kikapu! Since when have you become a conspiracy theorist? Well, I have not heard of such a scenario yet.

[Kikapu]

Oh my God Kikapu! Since when have you become a conspiracy theorist? Well, I have not heard of such a scenario yet.

Well, you know me. I like to ask a lot of questions.

But really. I saw couple of armature videos of the explosion on YouTube, which had a few loud bangs and strong flashes, but what I did not hear was constant repeat of bullets, shells, missiles, Triple A's and so on going off one after the other for a very long time, which would have turned the night sky into the biggest fireworks in the world, not to mention these exploding ammunition ending up at different locations within the 10KM radius from the base. Maybe I'm wrong and that the only thing that was in these 100 or so containers, was just gunpowder, dynamites, TNT, nitroglycerine and other high explosives, which may be the reason why there was ONLY few loud bangs and few bright flashes on the video and not like exploding ammunition leaving tracers at the night sky.

But if these containers did contain weapons, just how often does the CNG get 100 containers of weapons just "wash ashore" out of the blue and what shame it would have been to let them just rot there, or worse, give them to the British or the Americans.