Mumbai, India – Labeling the 26/11 terror attacks as “deceptively simple and highly coordinated with little money expended”, the FBI has said the crippling flaw in the Mumbai police’s defence against the initial assault was that its officers didn’t even carry weapons.
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The premier US investigative agency has also pointed out that the Indian forces did not have the sophisticated gadgets and systems to intercept the communication between the attackers and their handlers in Pakistan.
FBI said absence of weapons with the Mumbai police had led to dozens of people being mowed down at five-star hotels, a train station and a Jewish centre before the specialised Indian forces killed all but one of the terrorists.
“Half of these guys weren’t armed” during the initial assault in Mumbai, said Sergent Alan Matas. “That’s half the battle.”
“If something like this happened here, we would respond with a more organised attack,” Detective Ivan Cabrera was quoted as saying by ‘The Miami Herald’ newspaper.
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FBI’s Supervisory Special Agent Anthony Tindall told members of the agency’s Joint Terrorism Task Force and others gathered at the Sunrise Civic Centre over the weekend that “in the US, we would bring guns and bullets much quicker than the Indians could have.”
Tindall, now based in Hawaii as the FBI’s liaison to the US Pacific Command, said India sought the FBI’s help during the November 26-28 attack and the bureau deployed eight agents from Los Angeles as well as technicians from Quantico, Virginia.
He said FBI gained the trust of Indian investigators almost immediately because its agents and technicians were able to glean significant information from GPS, cellphones, satellite phones, Internet data, financial records, witnesses and boats used by the terrorists.
“One of the things we learned from this operation is that we needed to bring them something they couldn’t do themselves,” Tindall told the audience, while showing TV news accounts of the massacre.
“A lot of the information led back to Pakistan,” he was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
Another major turning point in the investigation was the early arrest of Pakistani national Muhammad Ajmal Kasab, the lone survivor.
He was a poor, uneducated young man recruited, trained and selected for the mission directed by Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Tindall called Ajmal, who joined another terrorist in the deadly Mumbai railway station attack, “an incredible source of information.”
Ajmal was found guilty in May of 86 counts of murder, conspiracy and waging war against India and received the death penalty from the Indian court.
Tindall also said that a Mumbai-style attack in the US would not likely cause as much death and destruction because local, state and federal law enforcement would be better coordinated.
Then why are they cops? Do they carry slingshots??
Sounds like the U.K., where the police are also not armed.
Wow! The FBI is “so brilliant”!
It only took the FBI, “how many years” to figure out what what every school child knows that the Indian forces are totally inpotetnt and totally useless and powerless.
It’s about time the brilliant multi brilliant dollar FBI had the immense wisdom to figure “that much” out and to come to the simple conclusion which we all knew before it all started.
For anyone who did not realize it all. until now, this only emphasizes the “al nissecha shbchal yom” that these terrorists could have done the same a million times before and the only reason it didn’t happen a million times more often and prior to that date was the biggest miracle of Hashem.
As for the FBI wanting to feel “so powerful” that in the USA this could not happen” because the “the “US forces are so much better”, I think it comes to show that they haven’t learned anything yet form Sept 11th in the USA, because the USA has all the guns in the world and they were just as vulnerable on Sept 11th. It was only the biggest miracle of Hashem that Sept 11th didn’t happen a million times before Sept 11th, because the FBI was 100% powerless to have stopped Sept 11th, just as the Indians were.
“Tindall also said that a Mumbai-style attack in the US would not likely cause as much death and destruction because local, state and federal law enforcement would be better coordinated.”
Mr Tindall is a bit deluded if he thinks the FBI etc are able to stop all determined suicide murderers.
I dont get why The Governments of India & India don’t let their cops carry guns. How can they stop any armed crime ? They’re not a 3rd world coutry. I think they’re totally nuts. They must change their policies, & quickly or they will just be a target for armed terrorists again and again and again …………..
Yes, the FIBbies like to think that they can do it ALL BY THEMSELVES. –NOT!– In most of the US (excluding CA and IL, where the serfs are kept helpless), if a gunfight broke out in a public place, I think you’d find a lot of CCW civilians jumping in to defend themselves and their loved ones.
“When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.”
I read at the time (link not available, sorry) that it took the National Security Guards (those are the folks with the heavy weapons, the equivalent of the SWAT team or the National Guard here) NINE HOURS to get to the scene. See, they were in a different part of the country, and there was only ONE airplane (I’m not making this up) that could carry them, and that airplane was somewhere else, and …
The only adequate response to such a terrorist attack is armed members of schules to react immeditaly by themselves to any attackers.
Anything else means lots of dead Jews.
Some of the rebeim in yeshivas should be arned and trained.
You would be surprised to know how common outside the norteast that gentiles go armed to church, in case some crazy starts shooting.