Karna_A wrote:
Right now Al ee tee thinking is that 10 people faced puri hindustani fauz for 60 hours. That creates more potential piglets ready to die.
With respect sir - this is an extension of the "Log kya kahenge" argument which is based on "Damn - it took 60 hours to get 10 men see how Pakis are gloating". In other words our thoughts and plans are being guided by taunts and mockery from Pakistan rather than cold hard reality. The cold hard reality is that if one man hides in one room in a 400 room hotel and you don't know if he has hostages or not or if there are innocent people in rooms what are your choices:
1) Send 1200 men - 3 men to storm each room knowing that you will surely get your man soon, but may lose at least one commando or more if he is ready to kill before being killed. Also how do commandos attack a room without being killed. If they throw a grenade it it may kill innocent people
2) Send a smaller group to individually clear out rooms trying to be as safe as possible and trying to minimise casualties while guarding all the escape routes.
Once a terrorist is hiding and the hotel is silent - any gunfire or noise from the terrorist will pinpoint his location and make it easier for the security forces. That is why even the terrorists started lying still an speaking (on the phone) withe very low voices towards the end of the operation. And by waiting the terrorists were getting more tired and disoriented. And as far as Nariman house is concerned the intercepted calls made it reasonably certain that the hostages had been killed, and that is why that house was blasted room by room. They could not do that in the hotels because they would not have known how many live guests were hiding.
But once they knew where the terrorist was and that he had no hostages - they have blasted him with Shri Shri Shri Carl Gustav or Shrimati IOBputri Grenade . If you are a medical man check out the injuries on some of those bodies. The entire body is singed, clothes tattered and face looks like its been hit by a storm as often happens when one is killed by an explosion. Even the death of Fahadullah comes from a loud bang (which makes the handler say "Arrey!") followed by gunfire. The commandos have located the bathroom he was hiding in - blasted the door with explosive and sprayed his musharraf with gunfire.
The 60 hour business is a bogey. It had to take that long after the initial delay of several hours. At most if the commandos had come 6 hours earlier it may have been 50 hours and not 60 hours. All too often I have seen on BRF threads - naive comments that ask "Why did they have to send a 200 man team to kill two infiltrators in Kashmir". The answer is that this is not a boxing match with 3 minute bouts. You have an armed killer who can kill hundreds and he has to be overwhelmed. Even then we lose men - because it is that dangerous.