[gaijin]

It looks as if there were only 11 or so killers.

Here is the one little thing that has me puzzled; if indeed the killers had state backing, why weren’t the killers they also armed AT LEAST with RPGs?

Indeed the Mi-17 helicopters that delivered the Indian Commandos were sometimes hovering for OVER FOUR MINUTES directly above the hotel rooftops before disgorging their troops —sitting ducks for professional terrorists.

The only reason I think they weren’t shot at AT LEAST by PRG’s was because the nasties simply didn’t have them.

And while I am ABSOLUTELY no Pakistan lover, this suggests to me that these guys more or less through this operation together with very little in the way of backing; you had some young, fit, intelligent kool-aid drinkers who went out to really kick some a$$, more or less after just a year or so of target practice and indoctrination.

But of course if Islamabad disappears in a bright white flash (from India), well, I’ll serve as the whole trumpet section, OK?

[redhead]

There’s just so much about this whole thing that is PUZZLING. Why didn’t the police shoot? Why were there so few raiders? Why didn’t ANYBODY fight back? So many questions, so few answers.