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More than 100 tons of commercial-grade explosives being transported aboard the Honduran-flagged merchant ship MV Eugenia fell overboard in bad weather off the coast of Mumbai, India, on Dec. 22, 2005, the shipmaster claimed. With wind speeds never topping 10.4 mph that day, however, the ship unlikely encountered waves large enough to knock six large containers off its deck -- raising the possibility that the explosives were offloaded at sea for sale on the "gray" arms market.
From that location in the Arabian Sea, the explosives could easily end up in the hands of militants in South Asia, the Middle East, the Horn of Africa -- or all of the above. There is a lot of money to be made from selling 100 tons of high explosives, and the introduction of such a large amount on the illegal arms market puts a great many people at risk of militant attack.
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