Mumbai terror – deeper analysis

India was fully exposed with all its weaknesses before the entire world during the mumbai seige.
So, What went wrong? Almost everything went wrong. Only the spirit of Indians minus politicians, valour of NSG commandoes stood high like Mount everest.
It almost puts me to shame, if i hear the sentences ‘Emerging power – India’, ‘Supoer power – India’.

So, lets travel the path of terrorists and see and feel the sorry state of Indian state.
1) Terrorists kill 5 people on trawler and slit the last remaining person after sailing closer to the shore. Terrorists sailed in Arabian sea so long from Karachi to Mumbai undetected. Was our navvy sleeping? What happened to Taxpayers money that bought submarines, high end naval ships with cut-throat technologies? What happened to our medias screaming headlines ‘India a major naval power’?
Where were our sea petrolling guards?
2) Assuming these terrorists sailed through successfully, was there no immigration check at the port?
What a shame?
3) Ok, our tax money isn’t enough to cover our populist subsidy schemes. Agreed. So, our maritime infrastructure and immigration checking system is in shambles. But what happened to metal detectors at CST? Why there was no one at the place where metal detecting pass through units were placed?
4) Ok, our Lalu prasad yadav was amanaging our railway stations well and turned loss making railway ministry into money miniting printing press. How did he actually achieved this? Did he do cost cutting by removing all security systems or personnel to check the passengers in and out of the station? Or the employees were napping?
4) Taj hotel the icon of growing and emerging India.  Ratan tata has miserably failed to protect his great grand fathers hard work. If Taj hotel got destroyed then the responsibility lies with no one but him. I listened carefully to his interview on CNN with zakaria. He gave a losuy explanation of why he removed security just before the carnage. He said that the reason to remove the security was diminished threat of terrorism. Also, he defended shamelessly that the security was put in place on the front side of the hotel and not on the back side. So, according to his lousy defense, carnage in Taj couldn’t have been prevented because terrorists entered hotel from behind. So, my question. Why didn’t you put security checks at the back of the hotel? By your own submission, your security apparatus is inadequate. Running a 100 year old hotel is one thing and protecting it is another thing. You failed in protecting guests, property and investors money. You cheated the guests and investors alike with a false assurance of safety? Who will trust in your Taj hotel again?
5) Coming to our police force. Police spent all the money in upgrading their stations ans automobiles, but didn’t spend a penny in upgrading to the latest technologies as well as defensive/offensive equipments. Do they know anything about Taser guns? I bet they know John Abraham and his bike.
Our police constables looked like meek spectators and in some cases were running for their safety.
Why did slain ATS chief Hemant went to battle field? Why did he allow the TV coverage of his wearing jackets? Instead of coordinating the whole episode why did he run by himslef to the frontline?
6) NSG commandoes donot have latest gadgets for handling hostage situations. Our government may have  thought, why do these commandoes need them, when there is hardly one or 2 hostage situation in a year or 2.  They don’t have their own helicopters. What a joke.
7) coming to Political parties. BJP is smiling and shedding crocodile tears on mumbai terror. This saffron party is thinking voters will push BJP to victory because UPA failed in counter terrorism efforts. The root cause of all evils in India is BJP, RSS, VHP and bajarang dal. These saffron outfits demolished babri masjid, allowed the massacre of muslims in gujarat, attacked christians and even released dreaded terrorirts during kandahar plane hijacking episode.
BJP even took kargil to its face and allowed our parliament to be attacked. If BJP thinks that there credentials are stronger, then it is fooling itself. This time the anger in common people is against the enetire political calls. Its is not directed to this or that party. These good for nothing polticial leaders have Z security while common people suffere in routine terrorist attacks.
It would be good for NDA to join forces with UPA and form the consensus. Show to the world that political class is not divided, but united with a common response to the escalating war like situation between India and Pakistan.
Tada or POTA is not the response people are looking for. They need concrete evidence that things started to change. Counter terrorism efforts have miserably failed under UPA sarkar.
Forge cooperation between all state ATS agencies, IB, RAW. Provide adequate tools to our Police personnel. Reduce the subsidy burden and use the tax money to protect the Indians.
Protect our borders with strict immigration check at all entry points. Warn all Public and private companies to screen all employees before hiring. Warn all renters to screen all the occupants. Warn all hotels and tourism departments to implement strictest security measures all times.
Government should ensure that every citizen has an address along with ID card. This needs huge investments, but we need to accomplish this. Had we not spent money on pay commision hikes, farmer loan write offs, we could have that money today to do just that.
More updates soon.

Filed under: Finance India, India blogs, Indian Bloggers, ISI, JEM, LET, mumbai carnage, mumbai massacre, mumbai mayhem, mumbai terror, mumbai terror aftermath, mumbai terror counter terrorism failure, mumbai terror deep analysis, mumbai terror deeper analysis, mumbai terror what next, mumbai terror what went wrong, pakistan connection, pakistan link, pakistani connections, pakistani links