Mumbai, 9/11, Terrorist Attack, Pakistan and Israel

I wished to register my concern over the latest terror attack that happened in India, on the same day itself. Then I thought it is too early to comment on it, though it was the worst I have ever seen happening in India.

But I can’t help comment on two things. One, how it’s being reported in Pakistan by most of their media and secondly, some comments by some ‘Israeli Expert’ about how the situation was handled.

About the Pakistan media.

Thy reported it as its being carried out by Hindu terrorists. Absolute nonsense. The most stupid thing I have ever read recently.

They need to understand that there is nothing like Hindu terrorism. Hindu’s don’t have any such enemy to fight with. We are matured enough to respect any other religion that exists in this world or which are going to come. I agree that there are some Hindu extreme groups in India. They are not terrorists. Extremism and Terrorism has difference. What is happening in Thailand now is not terrorism, though one sees violence.

Look at some of the facts:

One terrorist has been caught alive and he himself admitted that he is a Pakistani and they came from Karachi, Pakistan, by sea route.

Intelligence department successfully intercepted (and recorded) the communication between terrorists and they spoke the Pakistani Punjabi with their accent.

He admitted that he is part of LeT, which is a muslim terrorist group.

The mobile phone recovered from the terrorists clearly shows they were in constant touch with somebody in Pakistan.

Look at the names of these terrorists – Abu Ali, Omar Shoib, Umer, Abu Ismail, Abdul Rehman… dose it sound like Hindu names?

They killed Jews deliberately; Hindus here don’t have any issues with Jews at all

They were very well trained (no nation offers such a training for a ‘Hindu terrorist’, in this world)

Their mobile phones (unfortunately for them, they could not clear the call history before they got hit by the commandos), the SIM cards, the GPS device used by them, the credit cards – these are all solid evidences and they did not even point to India.

Some Pakistanis reacted in a strange way - India is just blaming Pakistan as if they want a war with them and says ‘BRING IT ON’

Dear friend, we Indians don’t fancy war with anybody. In the history of India, we never attacked any other nation. And don’t get carried away by the act of these terrorists. So far, India and Pak fought 3 wars (including the one lead by Musharaf in Kargil) and all the time it was India who won.

Now about the Israeli Expert.

I understand that it’s by somebody who was a former official from the Israeli anti terror agency. Well, that means he is supposed to be an expert where as I am not at all an expert in fighting terrorism. His allegation is India’s fight back was ‘Ineffective, premature, too early firing’ etc etc

We all know why Israel responded to the terror attack. Its coz some Jews got killed which included a Rabbi.

I don’t know whether he did watch the live telecast by the media (not just Indian ones but international ones too did live telecast). I did. This was for the first time in my life that I spent this much of time in front of the TV. For the past three days, I got only 8-9 hours of sleep. I was following it up for about 20 hours or more a day.

Once the operation was over at the Jewish building, it was found that the Rabbi was the one who got killed first. That means the terrorist killed him very early, just coz he is a Jew and then he was a Rabbi. If that expert thinks if he was there he could have saved the Jews, he is living in Utopian world and underestimating the skills of the terrorist and the training they got from real professional agencies.

The terrorist came here to kill people. That includes Indians, westerners and yes Jews too. This Jewish institution was selected as a target months ago (as per the admittance of the caught terrorist). This is India and not Israel. We can not make out the difference between a Pakistani and Indian from their looks. Those guys visited this place months ago and planned this act.

That building is in thickly populated and congested area. Not even a single civilian or hostage got killed by the bullet from the commandos. And the commandos did not give any priority to save Indians or Hindus. They did not show any partiality and it is mostly Indians who lost their lives.

It is very easy to blame Indian agencies sitting in some other country. When dead bodies were taken out from the Taj Hotel, it was found that some of them already started decomposing. What does it mean? It clearly shows that terrorists killed many of them very early (it took 60 hours to flush out them).

Why this operation took this much of time? First of all, terrorist were very heavily armed. The checked into the hotel days ago, smuggled in all the arms and explosives well in advance. They had enough stuffs to blow up the entire hotel. The hotel has about 500 rooms. Terrorists had clear idea about the layout of the hotel since they studied it using various methods and then staying as inmates. Terrorist had hostages with them. Commandos had to open up each and every room with the master key, since inmates hesitated to open the door since they were not sure whether it’s the terrorists or the police who are knocking. Then they had to check the credentials of every inmate before taking them out. In some cases, commandos forcefully opened the doors. Every inmate who was rescued were personally accompanied by commandos till the ground floor. Their priority was to rescue as many hostages as possible than risking everything and kill the terrorists. Finally they did foil the terrorist’s plan to blow up the entire hotel.

So, common sense will tell why it took so long. But yes, there was a shameful delay in starting the operations (Shame on you dirty politicians plus bureaucrats and your system).