Aren't you pissed off?

We have a S.W.A.T. team equivalent only in Manesar, and it takes them 9 hours to get to Bombay to shut down terrorists.

We have the Bombay Police force who have only lathis and .303 Lee-Enfield Rifles. The Lee-Enfield is incidentally, "the longest-serving military bolt-action rifle still in official service." Are we supposed to be proud that we respect tradition by using the same ancient weapons to combat automatic and semi-automatic guns?

I read somewhere that the snipers couldnt get a shot off because the scopes fitted on their guns were not powerful enough for them to make out whether the people moving inside the rooms were guests or terrorists.

Our NSG or Police don't even have night vision devices that any kid who has played any video game today will tell you wouldve helped reduce this terrorist attack, possibly by half the duration that it actually lasted.

If you've been to Leo's after the attack, you will notice a huge hole that one of the terrorists' bullets made in a lamp post. A Lamp Post, for heavens sake!! and the Mumbai Police with their Lee-Enfields were trying to fight the terrorists in their khakis. I get the whole "Mard Aaamhi Marathe Khare"(We are true maharashtrian men) theory, but this is just stupid!

Aren't you pissed off?

Night vision goggles were first used in WW-2. In a lot of countries, even civilians can own night-vision goggles. And the Indian police don't have them even today, 60+ years after they were first used. But of course we Indians are resourceful... we will use floodlights to light up hotel rooms.

Have any of you been to www.precisionremotes.com ? I suggest you go there and take a look at the kind of devices they sell to the US Dept of Defence. Now those kinds things would end a hostage crisis in a hurry.

Recently in October of this year, there was a hostage situation in Brazil. Some of the reasons for failure that were widely publicised are as under
1. Allowing the kidnapping to last for so many days(100 hours),
2. Not shooting the kidnapper with a Sniper,
3. Taking too long to storm into the apartment after the explosion of the door (The Nariman House operation made some similar mistake)
These 3 mistakes are classic No-Nos in a hostage situation, according to SWAT instructor Marcos Do Val.

India refuses to learn from previous fuck-ups. In 1995, 6 tourists were kidnapped by Al-Faran in Kashmir and they demanded the release of Maulana Masood Azhar - founder of the Jaish-e-Mohammed. India had arrested him in 94 for his involvement with the Harkat-ul-mujahideen. Both HuM and JeM are widely acknowledged to be supported by the ISI and Osama Bin Laden respectively.
In 1999, India saw another hostage drama - IC 814, where a plane was hijacked and taken to Taliban controlled Kandahar. Masood Azhar was released by the BJP government in exchange for the hostages. Masood was soon seen in Pakistan running around making fiery speeches.
The JeM also carried out, under the leadership of Masood Azhar, the attacks on the Indian Parliament.
After 9/11, when USA forced Pakistan to get its act together, Masood Azhar was detained for a year by Pakistani authorities in connection with the Indian parliament attack, but was never formally charged. The Lahore High Court ordered an end to his house arrest on 14 December 2002.

This is just the Pak - Masood Azhar connection. The Akshardham incident was very similar to the Bombay terror attacks. With 2 terrorists firing indiscriminately and throwing grenades at people. On that day, it took 7 hours for the NSG commandos to get from Delhi to Ahmedabad. And yet, we did the same thing?

Why are we refusing to learn anything from past experiences? Pakistan has constantly supported these activities and we do nothing but talk, our forces are constantly found wanting and we do nothing btu talk, we give our brave men lathis to work with and they got shot and we do nothing but talk.... do we, the people of India really deserve this rubbish?

Aren't you pissed off?