gunman walks at the Chatrapathi Sivaji Terminal railway station in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008. Teams of gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, hospitals and a crowded train station in coordinated attacks across India's financial capital, killing people, taking Westerners hostage and leaving parts of the city under siege Thursday, police said. A group of suspected Muslim militants claimed responsibility. AP
Stupidity is running rampant on this thread.
1. There is no excuse for the police hiding instead of engaging.
2. Their level of training cannot excuse their inaction. All they needed to do was aim and shoot.
3. for you Freepers and lurkers who feel one cannot know what to do until confronted by a situation-—get your heads out.
4. Gack. I am ashamed at some of your cluelesness, demonstrated by your remarks.
btt
Perhaps they were like the people in New Orleans; waiting to be told what to do rather than to do the obvious.
No Tonto! It will only escalate the violence.
I wondered who got those amazing photos and how he did it. What a story!
I wonder what the police patrolling the NYC subways would do...and those at Grand Central Station and Penn Station.
If I rode the trains in the Met NY area, I would carry a concealed gun, license be damned!
"A special officer from Muslim community would be appointed for the police recruitment so that the community people can get more scope in the police department," the Chief Minister said in the function of the Federation of All Minority Educational Organisation at Haj House here...
(bet they're thinking that one over carefully.)
I went to the local language newspapers in Mumbai online in the Marathi language, which do not print for a international audience--and therefore are not edited or toned down, and took in the massacre photos over there in al their horrific reality.
They were all UNCENSORED.
One look at that for about 10 minutes and it would be difficult to sleep for a week now doubt.
Merciless they were. The essence of Satan's agents straight out of HELL.
But we do know that this happened in a crowded train station & the terrorists were carrying rifles.
We don't know how many police were on the scene or how they were engaged in the scene as it unfolded nor do we know how the police were armed outside of them having 'guns'. Pistols? Shotguns? Rifles? And, I doubt that any of the police were trained snipers.
And, we have only this photographer's story. I'm not sure he can know everything about what every P.O. on the scene may have or may not have done.
Their rifles were very old bolt action that looked WWI issue.
In the mornings when the crew went to get dynamite and caps
we had to wake them up.