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What went wrong: The inside story

The Intelligence failure in the run-up to the November 26 attacks and the crossed wires during the 60-hour siege: Shishir Gupta reconstructs A day after P Chidambaram took over as the Union Home Minister, National Security Advisor M K Narayanan, Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta, Intelligence Burea ....Read more

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What went wrongBy: Nilesh | Thursday , 13 Aug '09 20:14:53 PM Reply | Forward Shishir... i think you should get your facts right specially about the MARCOS and NSG... or switch to page 3 writing!

CommentBy: Guest | Sunday , 4 Jan '09 1:00:21 AM Reply | Forward It reflects any intelligence agency... Even the U.S's. It took a tragic happening like 9/11 to cause intelligence executives to even consider change or improvement. It is even more tragic that this is not the first major incident... there was a train bombing months before that killed more than 100 people. Every country needs to realize that the infrastructure of the government and intelligence systems are not indestructible and of miniscule matter. A phrase that countries these days should be shouting every breathing moment is, "Let's be proactive!"

what is wrong with the website who denies free viewsBy: banarjee | Monday , 29 Dec '08 15:11:39 PM Reply | Forward pls put this article in priority as this is best available on Mumbai carnage.finding great difficulty to trace this article.pls try to include all replies as this will help to bring consensous among like minded people.many of my friends has replied for this article bur not able to find it as it may sound true and polittically incorrect.be brrave...

Re: What went wrongBy: Ajay S | Sunday , 28 Dec '08 8:53:19 AM Reply | Forward Fantastic work Shishir! Really appreciate this article. Eagerly awaiting more well written and researched articles from you. It will be really nice if you can keep at it and report on the investigations as well as the actual ground situation with respect to the steps taken to reform the police and other securtiy agencies responsible for Mumbai and Maharashtra.

IPS, the Indian Disaster ServiceBy: HOWLER | Saturday , 27 Dec '08 16:11:35 PM Reply | Forward The institution of state police in our country is defunct. Our intelligence bureau has failed miserably. Track record of our CBI in bringing the culprits to book is dismal.The rot has also been set into the CPMFs, INCLUDING THE NSG.All these agencies have definite and exclusive roles for themselves. However, there is a common thread running between them. The IPS. Each one of these agencies is headed by an IPS officer. Infact, the entire decision making lies in the hands of IPS in these organisations in an absolute manner.Politicisation and degradation of the IPS is a reality today. They display remarkable flexibilty and go to any depths to please their political masters.They get simply transformed in to dildos - lifeless, flexible things that vibrate only to please their political masters! Its no surprise then that EVERY THING THAT IS HEADED BY THE IPS IS A DISASTER TODAY.Any attempt to sanitise the security network in India should begin with disbanding of the dildos heading these.

INDIAN POLICES' BIGGEST PROBLEM-IPSBy: banarjee | Monday , 29 Dec '08 15:29:14 PM Reply | Forward howler U are right.now UPSC should include in their Advt. that any person joining elite IPS,IFS DIES in the course of the service then he is entitled for Gallantry award(not less than Ashok chakra).it is not important the deceased person died without firing single bullet ,or,exemplery gallant action because by the virtue of qulifying civil service entitled them with renaissance blood.it is not important for them to do the mandatory courses as required for their counterparts in paramilitary forces.the DG of any of the paramilitary or NSG as ever took pain to do the mandatory commando courses/map reading courses/or any courses where physical is required.this is the bane for this forces as our political mandarin is not qulified enough to understand what is good or bad for the leaders to give worthy command.i remember once OPS PARAKRAM was going own then one of the IPS officer was not able to understand the basic terminology and therefore undergone map reading course in jaisalmer.what respect this officers can earn from their peers.THEY CAN SERVE IN THE COMFORT OF THE A.C AND CAN BE CATEGORISED AS MOST EDUCATED BUT LEAST EFFECTIVE POLICE FRATENNITY IN THE WORLD.

We know the mistakes, now let us correct them. Let us continue to be a class above the scum next door.By: C. Deepa | Saturday , 27 Dec '08 9:54:45 AM Reply | Forward Yes we have made mistakes and committed criminal errors, but atleast we live in a society and a culture that is willing to admit its mistakes, that is willing to investigate and at least make an attempt to fix what went wrong. If Pakistan territory was still a part of this country, we would not even be able to accomplish this much. It was traumatic and difficult, but thank god for partition. Thank god that delusional scum next door is no longer part of our family and thank god that we can hold our heads up in this world as a society that at least TRIES to do the right thing.

Irresponsible DGBy: Ram | Saturday , 27 Dec '08 4:11:58 AM Reply | Forward The Maharastra DG Pasricha should be sacked immediately, for not taking precautionary steps, even after he was alerted by multiple agencies. He was even given names of the specific targets (like Taj and Marriot Hotels) !!.

what went wrong: By: anveshik | Saturday , 27 Dec '08 0:34:10 AM Reply | Forward Please provide the reference to a published story where Marcos claimed two kills? The press brief does not claim two kills but presence of terrorists. Shishir gupta must either provide evidence or retraction.

What went wrong: The inside storyBy: jiju.s | Friday , 26 Dec '08 17:18:07 PM Reply | Forward we were all critical about the role of politicians and made them to pay but now nation want to know what action is been taken to real stake holders who were responsible for gaurding the country.The role of armed forces was really pathetic and Marcos should be disbanded.they were shameless to give T.V interview about the operation when their role is in cloud.I as a civilian feeded on commondo operations in movies(based on real stories)was astonished by the movement of Marcos and NSG AROUND the hotel which we all had seen in the TV.it is high time to know that our Army is not been trained to elimnate 04 militants inTAJ.Nation has the right to know that when this Army can't stand to this sizable militants then how can they face war.The same happend during Kargil abression(not war)and our Army and media had taken to a ride and our young officers' paid with the life.Now i want to ask the questions that when IB HAS GIVEN a 90% authetic information then how come NAVY AND COAST GUARD fail

India is a failed stateBy: A | Friday , 26 Dec '08 16:33:26 PM Reply | Forward We all say Pakistan is a failed state.The fact is:WE ARE A FAILED STATE..We are a bunch of jokers, a ntion where noone does his job well, the only job we do well is pointing fingers at others.The folks who do their job well, the oumble's, karkare's unnikrishnans salaskars, kamtes meet the death in this nation.Nsa is a joke, this joker was parying when women were being stripped tortured and killed.Marcos were boasting of their heroics when they cldnt killl one of the terrorists, spineless jerks.We are a 99% failed state. 1% who are not failures are destined to die like unnikrishnans.Being nuked by pakistan wldnt be tht bad a thing after all, atleast we will not be striped of our respect every second month.

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