Dear reader this article is only in context of Governance and National Security. Thus the contents are subjective.
Governance:
Aftermath of the terror attacks of last month have given away enough loopholes in security and intelleigence angencies' work practises. Heads of Shivraj Patil, R.R.Patil and Vilasrao Deshmukh have rolled. Many have admitted ignorance and lapses in security procedures.
I think union home minister resigned for wrong reasons. The man never looked intelligent and proved it everytime he opened his mouth (or sometimes not!).
His interview on devils advocate was broadcasted a few days before the attack. He could not clearly say that road link between J&K and rest of India will never be closed!
The astonishment was in the fact that he actually allowed to close this road? If we have a troubled region where people are trying to earn a honest living by selling their produce
and we dont want to open the road! He should have been fired there and then. Vilasrao Deshmukh was just there waiting to be fired. R.R.Patil is a humble man working for common Indians! But do we need a humble man in the post of home minister of state? I remember once H.D.Devegouda said that he is a humble farmer!
Well we dont need humble farmers and common men ruling the country or state. We need visionaries who have seen the world, who are not just nice and pleasent looking but also has shrewedness of anticipating and making the change!
All these leaders have resigned! But were they trained in any specific way to tackle intelligence information? or some military training! Noooo! They are leaders who, in theory, represent the country.
Main job is of our intelligence agencies, our defence forces. These are professionals and they did not do their job correctly and we are firing politicians! Why dont I see resignations and court marshals for the security forces! Why we get only appologies from them. Why do we need a police constable with a 303 rifle who is defending the nation against terrorism! While it was the duty of defence forces! This can be avoided by having a appropriate National Security measures and foreign policies.
National security:
1. The politicians during peace times really need to think about what went wrong! Get some professional training on managing crisis.
2. For J&K and North East India we really need to make use of moderne telecom technology in order to make more remote survailance. House to house search will only bring more oppression of innocent people
for a handfull of terrorists.
3. For the sea/air strikes we hope they will learn the lessons now and be better prepared.
4. Policeman needs to be more than a common man. It is evident that they stored a bomb in the store room for railways without checking the baggage? They need to be more professional. But it is not a police man's fault. They dont get training of what is expected of them, then they cannot perform as they should.
5. we need to make sure that Pakistan is growing along with us. For that matter Nepal,Bangladesh and Sri Lanka should also be prosporous. The poverty and lack of future brings people to take it to the extremeties. They are again making an attempt to democracy but it is not going to work if they don't get support form their neighbours. This is something I think Israel has lacked while dealing with Palestine and to an extent with Lebanon.
6. Last but not least, I think we should build a wall over the borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh. I know it is a huge distance to cover and also hilly terrain of Himalayas. But I tend to think that this will generate a lot of work for Indians which in turn will also boost the economy. Also looking at the wall built by Israel on west bank, there has been to NO terror attack on Israel from that side. Gaza on the other hand still posses threat but it is not as great. For India, it will stop infilteration of terrorists and also save lives of Indian soldiers and costs.
This does not mean that we can eliminate terrorism on India but surely she will be better off !
Thanks for stopping by!
Rahul
Monday, 8 December 2008
Thursday, 4 December 2008
Change we need!
I start to write my blog after the horrific terror attack on Mumbai. This ordeal endured by innocent people will influence the article, which, I may add, have been part blogs of multiple millions of bloggers across the globe.
When the attacks happened, I was having dinner with my colleagues and came home at about 10:30 PM Netherlands time. Upon arrival, my wife told me about the attacks and I was glued to the television what was going to be a dreadful night of horror scene of mass murder.
India and Indians have been subjected to terror attacks and they themselves and the world has forgotten about these attacks. Only people who have not forgotten are terrorists.
This attack was different in more ways than one.
1. This was first attack of its kind (suburban hostage situation) in the history of terrorism.
a. Attacks on school in Beslan, Russia (September 2004) and the theater in Moscow (Oct 2002) were also suburban terrorisms but they wanted something in return and they did not want to kill people by spraying bullets.
b. Israel has been subjected to numerous terror attacks which I can safely assume are greater in number than all terror attacks occurred in other countries together.
Many high profile Indians and foreigners died in this attack which has not been the case until now. All prior attacks were on poor localities, markets and suburban trains.
c. 10s of Europeans, Japanese, American and British people are killed in these attacks. This has triggered more widespread condemnation across the globe, which goes beyond mere words and now US, UK and Israel want to take part in the investigation.
What would be the motive of these attacks, everyone seems to think to spread terror in the country which I tend to agree.
But now I think that this attack was planned by none other than the master terrorist Bin Laden, well the reasons I think are
1. Pakistan army brass wants to move forces from Afghan border to Indian border
a. This will put pressure on American & British forces in Afghanistan
b. Al Qaida can strengthen its forces and fight American and British in Northwest frontier province.
c. Osama does not need to move his home time to time and Dr Zawahiri can look after him in more stable situation. All this is based on an assumption that Osama bin Laden is alive.
2. Al Qaida has planned an attack of 9/11 and precisely one week before Ahmed Shah Masood was killed. He was giving a tough fight to Taliban and in the event of American attack on Afghanistan, Ahmed Shah Masood would have been a big headache for Taliban.
Geneal Dostan and Dr Abdullah Abdullah were influential people, but, I believe, only in the shadow on Ahmed Shah Masood.
This shows high level of planning with risk identification and mitigation.
Until now I have talked about all old news and how the things happened and why? There is no basis but just a conspiracy theory.
Next article I would write about what we can do to avoid such terror attacks. You all are welcome to peep into mind of a nobody.
Be cool, Be brave !
Regards,
Rahul Nene
When the attacks happened, I was having dinner with my colleagues and came home at about 10:30 PM Netherlands time. Upon arrival, my wife told me about the attacks and I was glued to the television what was going to be a dreadful night of horror scene of mass murder.
India and Indians have been subjected to terror attacks and they themselves and the world has forgotten about these attacks. Only people who have not forgotten are terrorists.
This attack was different in more ways than one.
1. This was first attack of its kind (suburban hostage situation) in the history of terrorism.
a. Attacks on school in Beslan, Russia (September 2004) and the theater in Moscow (Oct 2002) were also suburban terrorisms but they wanted something in return and they did not want to kill people by spraying bullets.
b. Israel has been subjected to numerous terror attacks which I can safely assume are greater in number than all terror attacks occurred in other countries together.
Many high profile Indians and foreigners died in this attack which has not been the case until now. All prior attacks were on poor localities, markets and suburban trains.
c. 10s of Europeans, Japanese, American and British people are killed in these attacks. This has triggered more widespread condemnation across the globe, which goes beyond mere words and now US, UK and Israel want to take part in the investigation.
What would be the motive of these attacks, everyone seems to think to spread terror in the country which I tend to agree.
But now I think that this attack was planned by none other than the master terrorist Bin Laden, well the reasons I think are
1. Pakistan army brass wants to move forces from Afghan border to Indian border
a. This will put pressure on American & British forces in Afghanistan
b. Al Qaida can strengthen its forces and fight American and British in Northwest frontier province.
c. Osama does not need to move his home time to time and Dr Zawahiri can look after him in more stable situation. All this is based on an assumption that Osama bin Laden is alive.
2. Al Qaida has planned an attack of 9/11 and precisely one week before Ahmed Shah Masood was killed. He was giving a tough fight to Taliban and in the event of American attack on Afghanistan, Ahmed Shah Masood would have been a big headache for Taliban.
Geneal Dostan and Dr Abdullah Abdullah were influential people, but, I believe, only in the shadow on Ahmed Shah Masood.
This shows high level of planning with risk identification and mitigation.
Until now I have talked about all old news and how the things happened and why? There is no basis but just a conspiracy theory.
Next article I would write about what we can do to avoid such terror attacks. You all are welcome to peep into mind of a nobody.
Be cool, Be brave !
Regards,
Rahul Nene
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