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00:00Rainbow Warrior was a veteran of many Greenpeace campaigns all over the world.

00:04Campaigns against the dumping of nuclear waste at sea.

00:07Campaigns against whaling.

00:09This time she was to have led a protest flotilla to Muroroa Atoll in the Pacific,

00:13where the French test their nuclear bombs.

00:16The Warrior and her crew had had their share of skirmishes over the years,

00:20upsetting various governments and their navies.

00:22But the skirmishes always stopped short of actual violence.

00:25Until today.

00:26As dawn broke in New Zealand, Greenpeace officials at their headquarters in North London

00:30telephoned Rainbow Warrior's captain and surviving crew members

00:33and talked as well to Auckland police.

00:35Their conclusion? Sabotage.

00:37The Warrior, they said, had been blown up.

00:40Some kind of device had been fixed to the external part of the boat,

00:44at a particularly vulnerable part, here, around this section of the boat,

00:49where in fact there's not a double skin but only a single skin,

00:52which means that the explosion penetrated very quickly

00:55and by the time the first engineer ran to look inside the engine room,

01:01it was in fact almost full of water, so it was an enormous explosion.

01:05Who would have done it?

01:06I have no idea at all and none of us could speculate as to who would want to do such a thing,

01:12if indeed it was sabotage, because all our actions have been non-violent.

01:17Of course we have some very powerful people who are opposed to us,

01:20the French government and the British government, to name only two,

01:22or the Japanese whaling industry, or the Canadian sealing industry.

01:26All of them dislike what we do,

01:28but I can't imagine that any of them would take this kind of action.

01:32As police in Auckland continued their investigations,

01:35Greenpeace Tonight stepped up security at their many offices around the world.

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