NO ! I am not talking about our NSG commandos who, in a 60 hour ordeal, with support from Navy commandos, RAF, Firemen, Army and Mumbai Police; gunned down the handful of millitants who took the country on siege.......
I am talking about the terrorists who came well planned / well armed and unmatched fearlessness. Such brazen confidence, could have come with one and only one thing ....... they knew that our intelligence services are not good enough..........they were also sure that even if from some source, the intelligence information does even reach the ears that matter...........those won't be taking any action on the information.......and eventually, tht's what seems to have happened.
They won the battle in all completeness of their mission even as we celebrate, how we gunned them down. They achieved all three of their goals :
- Pinch India where it hurt them the most - Mumbai: Brought out in open, the false sense of security of Indians.
- Push the peace process between India and Pakistan, back by 18-20 months again.
- Killed as many as they could and got killed as Fidayeen.
As for the reports available, there was enough intelligence information available to have concluded about the possible attacks........and still our famed and glorified security agencies couldn't protect it from happening.
Like everybody, I too am angry.....I too am anguished........not at the politicians (who everybody just loves to hate)..........I am feeling bemused.......Assam has been burning for so long, our brothers and sisters in Jammu and Kashmir, face this kind of ordeal every day.........., naxal affected areas of AP, Orissa, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal.......goes through all the bombings and hostage situations every second day.........but nobody cares. Life goes on......as anything. Nobody gives a call for " Change" , "Spirit " etc. And now when a part of a city was affected, when symbols of Indian luxury were attacked, when the politically most uncaring section of society is shot at; the media and all are talking of "Change"
Where have been this media and all these celebrities, when other parts of the country had been burning. Are those parts any less Indian than Mumbai - a city, for whose leaders, in recent times the only mantra of success was being seen as a more pro-marathi (regionalist fundamentalists) leaders.
I am pissed off.........not on those terrorists or their group, but on the Indian government / media / intelligence agencies, who after every single terrorist incident have one and the same answer - Its Pakistan and ISI who did it, with or without proof(same thing also happens across the border, where India and Raw are blamed for all and every bombings in Pakistan's territory). In the current situation, even if we have proof and place it either before Pakistan / world media, the question is whether the Pakistani government be able to do anything except accept it.....does that failed state even has control over its own territory......its doubtful !! Even if the current pakistani government tries to take any action, hardliners, ISI and millitary along with anti state elements might topple the government itself. That would be a situation, which even India won't like.
Another disgusting situation is about the lone captured terrorist. Our police seems to be totally being led (or misled) by a person about whose mental state (being on drugs / torture by police), is itself under doubt.
God Save this country !!
