Mumbai - a story of great letdown

Thank you Officers Karkare, Kamte, Salaskar, Unnikrishnan and the yet nameless brave who died trying to free Mumbai from the clutches of fanatics who like smallpox, the great plague and AIDS need to be purged from the face of this earth - and it is my hope that these spawn of evil culture will be denied an Islamic burial instead their bodies burnt to send a message that jihadists will be burnt in death.

And as cnn.com live video feeds showed the world another part of the world raped once again by perennial rapist Muslims, Indian media was like always emotional and verbose, Indian Politicians were conspicuous by their absence on the scene and the total lack of crisis management and urgency to save lives shocking.

Inept, inefficient and under qualified - Indian media and security forces shared those 3 traits - and the Indian guests invited by the Indian media talked which in the interest of being succinct could be called bullshit - "One more time and Mumbai will explode"; "Is this India's wake up call"; "We should teach the Politcians a lesson by voting" except the former Police Chief who said Officer Karakare was "the victim of the system, not a bullet".

Compared with questions asked by CNN's US guests it 's apparent that the average TV invitation worthy Indian guest was quite unaware in matters which are common sense to a US citizen and based on that commonsense questions which could or should have been asked (not in any articular order) are:

1. why was Officer Karakare's official bullet proof vest of inferior quality
   
2. how and how much should the Indian government pay Officer Karkare's family for giving him inadequate, substandard armor which got him killed
   
3. at what time were building floor plans and hotel guest lists provided to the authorities
4. why were hotel resident guests not evacuated floor by floor when it became apparent that hotel was under attack - its obvious terrorists could not have held all floors hostage at the same time
   
5. what was the dialogue between the hotel guests and hotel staff
6. what are the crisis management plans of the Taj and Oberoi hotels
7. who was and is reviewing Taj and Oberoi hotels' employee lists to establish any possible links between the killers and other staff
   
8. why were Imams and Psychologist teams not brought in to buy time in guise of negotiations
9. since both hotels have large windows why were the buildings not stormed simultaneously via windows in addition to elevators, air vents and staircases
   
10. where were top Politicians and Officials - Union Home Minister; State Chief Minister; RAW Chief and others - in plain view in a Crisis Management Mode on Television, maybe to send a message that Indian leadership is in the forefront of battling terrorism and not hiding behind walls and hyperbole
11. who was doing what to verify if Dawood Ibrahim was behind Mumbai Attacks the moment they started since there is history of his involvement in murdering Mumbaikars - at what time if any was Pakistan asked to hand over Ibrahim
12. why are the Bombay Mayor, Maharashtra Chief Minister, Union Home Minister still holding their jobs despite a huge lapse of intelligence, and mismanagement of gigantic proportions where 4 (reported) terrorists held the Taj hostage for 60 hours - what's the ratio then 100 cops to catch 1 terrorist
13. before these hotels are allowed to reopen who will establish guest safety and evacuation standards, and who is responsible for rolling out those standards nationally
    
14. what are the penalties to be levied against the Taj and the Oberoi for not having crisis management in place
15. why were US intelligence reports ignored by the Maharashtra government
16. what are the steps to safeguard India - and what role does the Corporate sector play
17. what will India do if Pakistan is involved
18. despite repeated terrorist attacks on Indian soil why has the Indian Government not sough help of International terrorism experts
19. what steps did the Government take to "tap' the activities of Muslim organizations after the Delhi terrorist encounters of September 2008
20. now that it's over the media is talking more about the Taj - "heritage, icon, beautiful" - and not about the the dead - when will human life matter to India? The killers knew how to kill in the Taj but the owners of the Taj and the Police did not know how to save lives in that building - so just as respect towards the dead and their families could the media stop talking about the damage to the Taj and focus on those who will not come back to life - the hotel will reopen the dead will not become un-dead - and frankly this lamenting for a monument while bodies are being brought out shows highest levels of Indian apathy and callousness towards human life, so for once you nation of preachy people act human.
    

And thank you again soldiers - but why die for a nation which can't give you a decent bullet proof vest? And you died for a whore not mother nation if India hands over the bodies of these dogs to their countries or their families.

Mumbai Attacks

So it's happened again.

About 67 days after Mohan Chand Sharma of Delhi Police died of terrorist bullets, now Ashok Kamte, Vijay Salaskar and Hemant Karkare are dead of terrorist bullets - all Super Cops with a stellar record of service and bravery; all dead fighting for country led by a Prime Minister and a State led by a Chief Minister with a record of weak waffling when dealing with terror, crime or crisis.

My deepest condolences to the families of the Officers who gave their lives for the country which perhaps doesn't deserve such ultimate acts of love and sacrifice because as heroes die the majority watches with apathy concerned more with Sensex than law and order and national unity and pride.

Punjab, Kashmir and now this - the apathy is the same general apathy of it's them, not me or mine or what can I do? The press was as divisive then as it is now - gleefully reporting death and murder without taking a moral stand, the intelligentsia as removed from reality as it is now - citing socio-economic factors as reasons over cocktails and affairs without lending a single tangible helping hand to the displaced victims of terrorists, and the average Indian as self absorbed with money and more money like he/ she is today without a concern for the nation, society, right, ethics and all things that make people human beings.

Now its out of rural areas. This time its not the hoi-polloi killed in Mumbai train blasts of couple years ago. Now its in the playing grounds of the rich, so maybe its a bit more scary and a lot more real for the rich, but for the average guy its the same - India being attacked with impunity while the Prime Minister whimpers and the Opposition which had bent over backwards to those hijackers when it was in power talks tough.

It's wasting heroism to die for a country soft on terrorism where nothing changes except number of dead heroes increases while for its leaders and citizenry India as a nation takes a secondary position to self interest; and its wasting heroism on a country when:

• Abu Salem - the master mind for the previous Bombay blasts - receives preferential treatment in a Mumbai jail
  
• Dawood Ibrahim is still a free man - for the record a known Muslim criminal who has funded attacks against India and the man behind Abu Salem, and known as India's arch enemy, lives in Pakistan and despite their numerous meetings the Weak Sikh has never asked Geroge Bush to help get Dawood extradited to India
  
• India doesn't do enough to protect it's citizens - AFTER HEZBOLLAH ATTACKS ON ISRAEL AND IN THE POST 9/11 WORLD FIGHTING TERRORISM IS A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP, ALLIANCE, COMMITMENT AND THAT INDIA HAS NOT SOUGHT HELP FROM ISRAEL AND USA PROACTIVELY MAKES IT SOFT ON TERROR, BECAUSE IT IS UNDER EQUIPPED IN TERMS OF SURVEILLANCE EQUIPMENT AND MODERN COMBAT TECHNOLOGY AND PRACTICES - attacks on the Parliament and trains shows its soft underbelly repeatedly, and also its unwillingness to fight terror with deadly force.
  
• India's lack of knowledge and commitment to deal with terrorism with world class ability, agility and capability means that the Police fight sophisticatedly trained and totally mind washed freaks without adequate infrastructural and tactical support so as a Cop you walk into the line of fire alone without your country or department giving you a trained team of Psychologists there to engage the terrorists in talks - in Mumbai why were Imams and Mullahs, and Psychologists not involved early on?
• The combat armor provided to Police Officers seems of inferior quality otherwise how would bullets penetrate a bullet proof vest - do experts agree that Indian police is armed with the right protective wear?
  
• Why die for a country where despite their failures to safeguard life and property both Manmohan Singh and Vilas Rao Deshmukh get to keep their jobs
  

World's new self proclaimed financial super power that calls itself India Shining looks weak and unprepared as it's brought to its knees by an unknown sect of rabid dogs who for over 36 hours violently hold hostage India's financial and fashion capital while (Shiny) Indians hopelessly blunder through the situation - attackers even used a Police vehicle for random drive by shooting. What makes India Shining really India Stupid is its total unpreparedness - an attack of this magnitude had to be planned for months if not longer, and that Indian intelligence did not hear a peep about it shows how tight lipped Muslims are when reporting something suspicious, and that Indian intelligence agencies have no intelligence gathering capabilities at Muslim grassroots level so be it Delhi or Train blasts before that or Mumbai attacks now India Shining is a blind, mute, deaf sitting duck one can kill at random, so why die for it when there'll be nothing except a medal for your family as martyr after after martyr has died while opportunist fool after fool has prospered and ruled?

To repay the debt to the heroes and to be really India Shining India needs to: get Dawood, hang Salem, tap every Madrassa and militant organizations' offices, get foreign Intelligence experts as RAW etc. have failed, train Indian police and para military forces to become experts in combating terrorism, stop all trade and commerce and cricket matches with Pakistan until proven that that nation is not behind attacks on India. AND Indian Press and Politicians UNIVOCALLY need to condemn terrorism and suppot execution of enemies of the State despite ideology platforms, otherwise they talk while heroes perish and its time they shut up and walked the patriotic talk where India comes first. Otherwise India is just a weak, 3rd world nation gotten lucky with its luck about to run out as luck and cowards rarely coexist for long.

Thank you Officers Sharma, Kamte, Salaskar, Karkare - may your families live long and be proud that you had the courage in the land of the weak and may your name live long in the land of the living dead.