To all those brave souls who laid down their lives, took blows to their heads from British lathis to win us our independance, to all those soldiers who lay down their lives so that we could enjoy that freedom, let us stand for a minute to pay our gratitude.
Jana gaṇa mana adhināyaka jaya hē
Bhārata bhāgya bidhātā
Pañjāba Sindhu Gujarāṭa Marāṭhā
Drābiḍa Utkala Baṅga
Bindhya Himācala ẏamunā Gaṅgā
Ucchala jaladhi taraṅga
Taba śubha nāmē jāgē
Taba śubha āśisa māgē
Gāhē taba jaya gāthā
Jana gaṇa maṅgala dāyaka jaya hē
Bhārata bhāgya bidhātā
Jaya hē jaya hē jaya hē
Jaya jaya jaya jaya hē
JAI HIND!
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August 15, 2007 at 6:31 pm
equilibrium
I don’t know why, but this time I’m feeling completely Indian!
August 16, 2007 at 12:38 am
adreddy
Jai Hind!
August 26, 2007 at 9:08 pm
Wavefunction
While locals were surely involved in some way or the other, terrorist groups are many times loosely divided into logistics, reconnaisance, and bombing/suicide bombing teams. The reconnaisance teams can either recruit locals or themselves spend enough time in the city to find out which are the appropriate targets, even without local help. An operative asking a simple question like “Where can I find good places to have a good time with my family?” can get dozens of useful answers from helpful citizens (such as hotel personnel where he is staying)
In addition, there would be some mastermind coordinator. The actual mastermind (like Bin Laden) would be far far away; this other mastermind would just organize and relay info between all the teams.
Do you think that terrorists attacks are going to increase in our country because of our perceived “friendship with the US”?
August 26, 2007 at 9:18 pm
atlantean
Wavefunction,
Good inputs. Yes an operative can spend enough time in the city to get a feel for it and then plan.
Friendship with US has little to do with this although our anti-American xenophobes from the Left will use this argument.
Relations with US started warming only in the year 2000. We had terror attacks before that. In 1993, when arguably the biggest of them all happened in Mumbai, our relations with the US were not great.