Date: 29 Nov 2008 04:58:06 -0000 From: "jane gillian rodrigues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ONLY GOD KNOWS IF............ Mario observes: Perhaps for now. After the investigation, everyone will know. Jane Gillian wrote: The Indian govtmt should now insist that every hotel in India, as well as US, French, UK and Israel embassies or centres, employ commandos, for their protection. Mario responds: We lost some 3,000 citizens on 9/11 in the USA, mostly in attacks on civilian targets. The US government did not insist that every airplane have security forces, though no one now knows whether they are there or not, to keep the terrorists off guard. They did not insist that every building employ commandos for their protection. Yet, even in an open society like the US, the terrorists have been unable to launch an attack again for seven years now, even though they want to, and want to die in the attack. The difference in the US was the feckless and careless government we had in the eight years before the 9/11 attack, and the government we have had since which did not tolerate lax attitudes towards terrorism, counter-attacked them wherever they were to be found, found ways to intercept their communications and has kept them off balance with techniques that are also available to the Indian authorities once they decide to get serious about defending Indian citizens. Jane Gillian wrote: The congress govtmt is going to once again drag its feet and keep this teenage terrorist in prison for the next 15 years without taking any action and prove to the world that INDIANS ARE GUTLESS. Mario responds: I share your outrage at the lax attitude of the Indian government at the local, state and federal levels for being unable to put in place methods and procedures and intelligence gathering networks and surveillance laws that are effective, even in a difficult situation like urban guerilla warfare. However, I think it is a shame that you have chosen to malign all Indians as gutless. The Indian security forces were heroic and did not hesitate to confront and counter attack these terrorists, and several gave their lives on behalf of their fellow citizens and perfect strangers. The staff at the hotels similarly did not panic and heroically helped wherever they could, and some of them gave their lives to save perfect strangers. Even though they were caught by surprise, the security forces were on the scene within minutes, and in some 60 hours defeated the attackers in a very difficult combat zone where there were hundreds of rooms for the terrorists to hide in, hostages whose lives were in danger and heavily armed and well trained terrorists who were not afraid to die. Worse catastrophies have befallen India and Indians before and the country has survived. One hopes that the Government at all levels now comes to its senses and puts in place methods and procedures that will make such attacks difficult in the future, and recruits its many patriotic Muslims in doing so, because it is their religion that is being given a black eye by the heretics.
