200 + Dead known so far ...
~1000 Injured known so far ...
1.25 Billion Indians worried and
~6.5 Bn World confused about India ...
Victory !!! The akas of the seperatist forces must be rejoicing. What they wanted to achieve has been achieved. They have written their success story, with blood and flesh of innocent people.
The image of India as a state who is falining to protect itself from inside and outside has been painted in red. News bytes of burning taj, crossfiring between commandoes and terrorists, photos of Indians and foreigners killes, live accounts from those rescued...; the world is seeing it all !! They precisely attacked the place where it would hurt most. Leave tourists not thinkingof coming to India. Big business heads will think thriice before coming to India on a business trip. So, no tour to India, no business trip to India, perhaps no business outsourcing going forward. The damage is done, the aftermath is to come.
Whom to blame ?
The government has done the routine duty to condemn the attacks and to condole the losses. I am sure they do not read the messages from paper now. They have done it so many times that they should remember all. As usual goverment is pointing fingers towards security agencies and agencies are complaining about inaction. There are one thousand and one reasons. One which seems prominent is inability of the leaders to join the dots and think ahead of the enemy.
Its long when we started strenthning the border between India and Pakistan, making it difficult to invade. Its long (as old as 2002) that Indian intelligence got information about Lashkar operatives being trained in Marine commando techniques near Mangla dam along the Border. Late 2006, Intelligence also learn about Faisal Haroun, a Lashkar top guy, who commanded LeT opearations from BanglaDesh. Haroun had been using a shipping network (with merchant ships and small boats) to smuggle explosives into India.
Wasn't this good enough to give a clue and tighten the security at sea routes ?
The Intelligence forces recommended to step up counter terrorism defences back in 2006. In 2007, evidences were found of increased Islamist activities in Maldives ( Haroun wanted to use a deserted island in Maldives as control centre for LeT activites). It was planned to set up coastal police stations, more boats, jeeps, motorcycles etc for mobility along the cost. Not even 50% of this has moved to implementation.
What an example of negligence.
Guess what, now we will be more vigilant at sea. Will that be helpful now ?
So what will be the next innovative method of attack ? Air ? ( remember Puruliya, how easy it was for aeroplanes to drop weapons ?).
Until we learn to join dots, we would come to know only after we read the newspaper coloured in red !!
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