Mumbai Under Seige - The terrorist attacks on Taj and Trident (Oberoi) Hotels

30th November 2008

I am outraged. Outraged by the terrorist attacks and by our inaction. In spite of the repeated attacks, we have not one anything to prevent them. Even now we are speculating if this ISI is involved in it or not. To counter terrorism, one needs resolve-the kind of resolve shown by Mossad after the Munich Olympic massacre in 1972. The singled out all the people involved in it and went after them and didn't stop till every one of them was eliminated in an operation "Wrath of God". But no, we don't do that. We call such attacks "acts of cowards" and we talk about the spirit of Mumbai of bouncing back to normal and just forget about the whole thing and have our Deputy Chief Minister making statements like "In large cities like Mumbai, such small incidents are common. There has been no lapse in security".