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Intelligence fiddles while Mumbai burns again
By Binu Paul, SiliconIndia
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Friday, 15 July 2011, 01:51 IST |
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Three years later on 11 July 2006, a series of seven bombs were exploded over a period of 11 minutes on the Suburban Railway. 209 people were killed and over 700 were injured in the deadly attack carried out by Lashkar-e-Toiba and Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).
The 26/11 attack in 2008 was a real shock for the mumbaikars as the attackers who invaded from Pakistani seawaters kept the financial capital of India under siege for three days. The assault included 10 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks across the city killing 164 people and injuring at least 308. There was a public outcry against the politicians and the police force for their ineptness in preventing such attacks.
In a burst of overconfidence, Home Minister P Chidambaram boasted of the first six months of 2011 being "most peaceful" in the last decade on July 6, 2011. However, the latest blasts came just a week from then killing 18 people and wounding 81.
Don't we have a permanent solution to tackle this menace? The repeated attacks in Mumbai points to the fact that our counter-terrorism methods are incompetent to the core and our intelligence agencies are not able to provide appropriate inputs at the right time. There has always been this blame game after each terror strikes; however, not many are happy with the way they function.
We need to learn many lesions from the excellent counter-terrorism efforts by the U.S. government which has been successful to prevent any further terror attack since the 9/11 terror attacks in 2001.
