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Three days after, Mumbai hits gym, seeks counseling

Mumbai: Days after militant attacks killed 183 people in India's financial capital, residents are hitting the gym, calling their psychiatrists and nervously making plans to meet friends to help relieve stress. Offices and schools in Mumbai opened on Monday, and several were offering counseling session ....Read more

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Mumbai AttacksBy: Raj Singh | Tuesday , 2 Dec '08 20:41:14 PM Reply | Forward You've been watching Die Hard films too often you tosser.

trueBy: vishal | Friday , 5 Dec '08 19:58:48 PM Reply | Forward Exactly my point. Hollywood movies are certainly over the top but they are inspired by reality. I live in USA. I have seen first hand the way their emergency response team reacts to a situation. In various road accidents, fire mishaps, even during 9/11. Do you really think the response of our first responders was anywhere near what a professional response should have been ? I don't know about you but until the army arrived, they only think i saw on TV was a gbunch of policemen standing around looking here and there even as the public ran helter skelter in the background.

third world crisis managementBy: vishal | Tuesday , 2 Dec '08 20:03:52 PM Reply | Forward The response by the security apparatus was worst than what the cub scouts would have done. At the very least maybe we should show some hollywood disaster movies to our civil adminitration. Perhaps they can learn from the movies how a professional force is supposed to react. Instead of disembarking from the trucks like geriatrics a professional crack team would have arrived smartly, jumped off like trained cats quickly erected barriers and cordoned off the areas, clear out the civilians, put snipers on roof tops, evacuated those who were trapped in an orderly fashion, put the ambulance crews in place setting up makeshift first aid kiosks in nearby streets, pulled in atleast a dozen fire tenders to fight the inferno (instead of a lone firefighter wearing 15th century uniform spraying water into Taj from his piddly hose). What has our civil administration learnt from 30 years of terrorism ? They seemed woefully inept and incompetant. Bunch of boys totting bolt action guns.

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