Blueblood I agree, but I think advantage diminishes rapidly when you move to mid and small sized towns. NYC and LA police among others have incredible capabilities, but they don't represent most...
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Blueblood I agree, but I think advantage diminishes rapidly when you move to mid and small sized towns. NYC and LA police among others have incredible capabilities, but they don't represent most...
Posted by Ray,
You forgot to add that we talk kids into wanting to conduct acts and then provide inert bomb making materials and put them in jail for an attempted terrorist attack. It is sort...
Posted by Carl,
Since Ray chimmed in as the expert on India CT capabilities, I don't feel offensive agreeing with you that our police will respond in a more effective manner than India's did....
David, both articles were outstanding, thanks for posting. Fortunately we haven't seen any repeats of the Mumbai style attack (at least to that level) yet, so we have had ample time to prepare, but...
Some articles to expand awareness of the growing tension. Note the spin factor in most of the articles, and that they frequently quote unnamed sources, none the less those who want to throw gasoline...
There were other scattered tidbits on various websites indicating that this situation is rapidly going from bad to worse. Pakistan allegedly arrested an Indian in the past couple of days who was...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28221884/
This is an overly simplistic conclusion, the attackers were able to overwhelm the police because they conducted a "surprise" attack, and quickly exploited...
Police: Pakistani group behind Mumbai attacks
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27940231/
With more information available now (still with loads of spectulation), I think we have enough to at least consider the implications of this type of attack on our own homeland security readiness. ...
Great comments, we too often illustrate our lack of understanding by our desire to immediately run to the sound of gun fire and get involved so we can make things better. Historically our engagement...
http://www.newsweek.com/id/170301
India's reaction to these attacks will very much shape their future.
David,
Thanks for the update, so we scratch the good news for the time being. Hopefully you'll have some better news in the coming days :wry: First reports are generally wrong, or at least not...
The dust hasn't settled and it is hard to assess anything until the media gets past their sensationalism phase, but it may be helpful to put the attack in perspective.
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