From the article one may get the impression that the terrorists were targeting the police commanders. However, from the information gleaned from one of the TV reports it appears that the commanders were leading from the front.
Mr Karkare was killed when he went into the metro station trying to negotiate the release of the hostages.
Not to be nit picky, but an AK47 is not a “heavy machine gun”.
only 6 foreigners out of the 101 killed??
Weren’t the terrorists supposedly targeting US and British?
This is a very unusual terrorist attack. Multiple sites are unusual, but not unprecedented.
But the fact that it’s a siege is. It’s a terrorist attack not lasting a few seconds or minutes, but stretching into its second day. It’s more like a military attack than a terrorist incident.
The terrorists aren’t going to escape. So one wonders why they don’t kill all the hostages and just focus on killing more Indian police and army. The hostages are just a distraction to them.
Very puzzling.