Uncomfortable Questions About Mumbai Attacks

SAS

Hassan Zainagiree's article - "Odyssey to Taj" (http://www.greaterkashmir.com/full_story.asp?Date=4_12_2008&ItemID=18&cat=11) published in Kashmir's widely circulated vernacular daily Greater Kashmir was a wonderful read.

There is more to Mumbai attacks than meets the eye. US President elect Barak Obama's repeated Kashmir statement had frustrated India to the hilt and the honchos at New Delhi were afraid that the US may end up favouring Pakistan. After less than a month of Obama statement, India has managed to turn the tide in her favour and win American support. Now, some newspaper headlines are suggesting that "Mumbai attacks may sharpen Obama's Kashmir focus". For India, it's a job well done!

The attack on Taj Mahal Hotel, Trident (Oberoi) and Nariman House have raised many a question. It's quite ironic that security personnel were unable to notice the terrorists who barged into the Taj hotel. Interestingly, the terrorists first identified and then killed two American spies who were staying in the 565-room Taj Mahal hotel. Curiously, both at Nariman House and Taj Mahal hotel, foreigners - particularly Americans and Israelis - were the prime targets. The killing of ATS Chief Hemant Karkaray too has raised uncomfortable questions. Hemant was probing the Malegaon blast and had exposed the nexus between Hindu terrorists, army officials and Sang Parivaar. There is a striking similarity between the killing of Hemant Karkaray and Delhi Police Special Cell officer Mohan Chand Sharma, who was killed during the Jamia Nagar encounter in September this year.

As Zainagiree writes that all the three police chiefs - Hemant, Vijay Salaskar and Ashoh Kamtay - killed in the "encounter" were "vigorously perusing Rajan Gang". They were "apprised on phone of terror attack and asked to reach the same place where they were pumped with bullets".