MUMBAI: The battle-scarred Marine Commandos, engaged to flush out terrorists from the Taj hotel, are surprised at the level of training theirIt's looking more and more like the recent terror operation in Mumbai took months of planning, if not longer. The Indian Coast Guard is reported to have seized at least one "mothership" from which a number of small craft carrying terrorists originated from before making landfall in Mumbai. One captured terrorist claimed that the operation had been in the works for more than six months.
adversaries evidently received
and the money and the massive firepower at their disposal. The commandos have also been shocked by the familiarity and ease with which the terrorists operated inside the Taj and the Trident.
The Marine Commandos, popularly known as Marcos, are men handpicked by the Indian Navy to undertake combat and rescue operations on sea and, if required, on land. Maharashtra chief secretary Johnny Joseph was quick to seek their help on Wednesday evening till the National Security Guards (NSG) team arrived from Delhi on Thursday morning.
It is imperative that leading nations (read India, the U.S., etc.) get a handle on these intelligence failures. Intel, however, is a hard thing to judge. This may have slipped through the radar but we may never know what other operations are stopped by various world intel communities. Nonetheless, it is dispiriting to see such a plan executed so well with so little warning.
Mumbai is yet another reminder that the War on Terror rolls on and will for a long, long time. God bless the warriors, both Indian commandos and the hotel staffs, that fought to keep so many innocent lives out of danger.
Previously at Limes: Mumbai Terror
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The people in the midst of that attack were so heroic and we owe so much to them. Let us just hope that after this election the liberal illuminati will protect the U.S. enough so that we never have to face another attack of that magnitude.
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