Posted by: Harkey January 12, 2005
Koirala again ?humiliated? by airport security men
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Whats up with Koirala? Why is he desperately seeking attention as a baby with these comparatively trivial and selfish matters? Nepalnews.com: Koirala again ?humiliated? by airport security men In a unique recurrence of events, Nepali Congress president Girija Prasad Koirala complained that he was ?humiliated? by the security men stationed at the domestic terminal of the Tribhuvan International Airport when he dismounted from a helicopter Wednesday evening. Koirala returned by a Dynasty Air chopper from Chitwan at 4:45 p.m. ?My helicopter was about to touch down but it was suddenly diverted to the helipad of the army. The pilot said the airport tower instructed him to divert the helicopter to the army?s helipad. Armed security men turned up with dogs and carried out inspection inside the helicopter,? he said in radio interviews suspecting that the army men did so to humiliate him. ?But I am not going to be frightened by this kind of behavior. They had tried to misbehave with me earlier too. May be they thought they could scare me with guns,? he said adding that he was ready to face ?any kind of eventuality?. Few months earlier, an alleged mistreatment by the airport security personnel against the NC president at the airport had triggered street protests. Meanwhile, Royal Nepal Army spokesman Brigadier General Deepak Gurung said the security check was a usual process. ?Such checks are carried out on incoming helicopters under the guidelines of the security committee of the Civil Aviation Authority,? media reports quoted him as saying. ?In Koirala?s case, our bomb disposal team did try to carry out security check inside the helicopter. After the security men knew that Koirala was inside, they stopped, saluted him and let the helicopter return to the civilian helipad. That's it,? he clarified.
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