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Fri 01 Jan 2010Explosives fiasco blamed on police dog-handler
SLOVAK INTERIOR minister Robert Kalinak has refused to resign over the botched airport security test that saw a passenger unwittingly carry explosives on a flight from Slovakia to Dublin, despite fierce criticism of his government’s handling of the case.
The minister accepted the resignation of Slovak border guard chief Tibor Mako, a day after Mr Kalinak’s spokesman insisted that the fiasco was the sole fault of a police dog-handler who forgot to remove one of two samples of explosives placed in a man’s luggage as a test for sniffer dogs.
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