November 27, 2008

Mumbai attack: Unanswered questions

Terrorists coming via sea in rubber boats with heavy artilleries like AK 47 and AK 56 to Mumbai Gateway of India and then entering heavily guarded luxury hotels and going around the city at peak hours creating havoc with great impunity.
100 plus killed and scores injured. Among those killed were top ranking officers who were heading the Malegaon blasts. This investigation was heading to a greater conspiracy where top who is who of the country were involved.
The Mumbai ATS released information about some top ranking army officials and some Hindu radicals involved in various bomb blasts in the country. The ATS Chief is believed to be having more startling information on some high ranking political figures too who were part of the conspiracy.
But the world will never come to know about that any more. Hemant Karkare, one of the finest officers of Mumbai Police, who had all the information is no more. Along with him died some other good officers who were part of a team that some right wing parties accused of maligning Hindus by arresting sadhus and sadhvis.
It is not palpable how these terrorists arrived from sea, heavily guarded by Coast Guard and the Navy. How top officers were not shielded enough, who ordered them to be on the scene or informed them about this attack, how they got shot from close range? All these questions may perhaps will remain unanswered.
Bhupendrasinh Solanki, the Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament from Godhra, Gujarat, was at Mumbai's Taj hotel when the terrorists attacked it. Purushottam Solanki, a BJP legislator was the first to rush to Akshardham in Gandhinagar when terrorists attacked it. He, infact, rushed with a gun as if the terrorists called him before attacking the shrine.
The Akshardham attack remains as elusive as the identity of its attackers. The only person who identified the terrorists and their origin was India’s prime minister in waiting, Mr L K Advani who spelled out their names and their native places within hours of the attack.
India TV immediately released news about a possible international angle to this attack saying the underworld and the locals ganged together to help the international groups to carry out this attack.
But it is yet not clear how they are going to benefit from this attack. Who will benefit from the death of ATS chief? How did he arrive at point blank range and why? What are those secrets that still remains in the files of ATS or perhaps with Karkare whose lips will never be open now.
India is slowly turning itself into another Rwanda. A Rwanda with more liberties and freedom to move around. A Rwanda with closed group conspiracies. When will the Indians come to know the truth?

3 comments:

Manjunath said...

Its high time we know who the actual culprits are,it would be such a disgrace if we find out that an Indian was involved in it.

Impressive writing.

Ria said...

The truth from any angle in India gets murkier and dirtier day by day. Your perception of the conspiracy seems like Bull eye.

Anonymous said...

alex,
either you have an anti-hindu axe to grind, or youre just comebody who sees too much into everything. it is not impossible for terrorists to penetrate coastal security. AK47 and AK56 are not heavy artillery (please check the dictionary) they are automatic rifles. The hotels were not heavily guarded; they were barely guarded by unarmed security staff.

You need to learn a bit more about how systems work. If Hemant Karkare is killed, it doesnt mean information disappears with him. You should understand that there is a team and the information is shared. The other two police officers were not members of the ATS, you can check that if you wish. Top officials are "not shielded", they have to take care that they are well equipped; in this case they obviously werent. They arent children who somebody needs to put a bulletproof vest over.
What's the Akshardham attack got to do with this, or an MP from any party? There were 3 or 4 MPs in the Taj that time, big deal.

I suggest you make a trip to Rwanda and then come to India. But first of all state which country youre from because you dont sound like an Indian citizen, but certainly an anti-Indian one.