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Some journalists & bloggers from Pakistan contemptuously write that Indians are over-reacting. Here is a non-Indian journalist's reporting of the events:

VQR » Sixty Hours of Terror

Something I had never read in any Indian newspaper or TV report although I stayed up without a break all through that period watching both channels of NDTV, all Indian papers, and reportage for days afterwards, including many Pakistan & Bdesh papers I regularly follow, plus many others. This was the item that saddened me the most after the death of Mr. Kang's family by immolation.

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Late night. CST.

.....Advancing behind a concrete pillar, he crouched next to an armed police officer who looked on as the gunmen blasted rounds into the ticket windows. “What are you doing! Shoot them, they’re sitting ducks!” D’Souza said, to no response.

10:30 P.M. Outside CST.

Kasab and Ismail Khan exited CST through an enclosed overpass ........

Their next victim was Thakur Wagela, a cleaner at the nearby hospital who was eating dinner and watching cricket highlights outside his shanty when they approached and asked for a drink of water. Their thirst quenched, the gunmen shot Wagela in the chest in front of his five-year-old son......"


""The sign at the rear of Cama hospital read: ONLY FOR CHILDREN AND WOMEN.....Mumbai police headquarters was just two blocks away. And still no resistance. Kasab and Khan shot two guards on the terrace. “Let’s hide here,” Khan said, and the gunmen entered the pink and maroon building and hiked the stairs.""


"His own assault rucksack included eight hand grenades, two of Austrian (Arges) make with plastic cases, a bomb of military-grade RDX explosive with steel ball bearings and timer, a pistol with two seven-round clips, and a semi-automatic Chinese-made AK-56 assault rifle with three double magazines, each containing thirty bullets. One hundred eighty rounds in total."

This was the basic firepower of the terrorists. Are we seriously expected to believe that <6 men stood off > 200 commandos in 2 hotels, and expended the firepower we saw they did without ANY CACHES, resupply or on-ground support from the Indian end?

WHO is the GOI kidding? We saw grenade launchers being fired from outside the Taj to suppress the terrorist fire, bullet fire not incendiary fire. You do not do that if the other party has not a huge stream of ammunition coming your way!! AND THIS AFTER almost 3 days of non-stop firing, grenade explosions from both sides & running skirmishes. How many grenades can be carried in 10 backpacks, how much ammunition? Do the maths. Are we all stupid? We must be, because we keep voting these people into power.