The terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team does not make sense. At least, the way it was executed and the outcome thereof don’t. The motive behind the attack seems to be something else. The most incongruent aspect of the whole episode is that there were no serious casualties. None of the Sri Lankan team members got even seriously hurt. Now this looks like a half baked, hastily conceived and shoddily executed operation and appears to be a very unprofessional job; one which would have made de Gaulle squirm in his grave. (’The ba–ards can’t even shoot straight!’ he would have quipped.) Of course, I, like millions of other cricket fans and peace loving people, am only too relieved to learn that most of the cricketers have escaped with the minimal of damage, but this very fact leaves behind a big question mark, a gaping hole in fact, regarding the motive as well as the authors behind the episode. If the same group that was behind the Mumbai nightmare was responsible for the Lahore episode, then they seem to have lost their touch a bit in the interveneing 12 odd weeks. I mean they were armed to teeth it seems and at the end of the day they left with only a few police men dead and not even one of their sitting duck targets getting more than a scratch or two. On more serious notes, we need to read between the lines. There seems to be more in it than meets the eyes. What message they were trying to convey? To whom? Was it indeed some foreign hand staging a terror attack that would appear like one attack too many so that the Pak government plays ball with the power? Was it meant to be the proverbial last straw on the camel’s back so that the power can justify surgical steps against the you know who? Is it possible to link the timing of the episode with the upcoming general elections in India? Will this event lead to something that will provide the so far ‘groping in the dark’ UPA government to save its smarting face? Or is it just another flash in the pan? Who will suffer the most because of the terror attack? Who will gain the most out of it? Or the terrorist master minds are not just smart enough to think in these terms? Any ideas?
Very well said sir. I think the problem here is that we don’t take terrorism seriously enough. We need to take some harsh steps against perpetrators of terrorism.
with the benefit of hindsight, how about the goal of the attack being the weakening of the government in Pakistan which would bring it to its knees and cede control to the extremists (which happened first with Swat valley, and will now obviously continue over the rest of Pakistan). As for the insider support theory, I think the promise of Shariah land will always find enough support among mainstream muslims (ofcourse, they will say “properly interpreted” shariah laws from quran). One can find the self-righteous threats on Tasleema or Sania or Rushdie, or other things like the raped daughter in law being told to marry the rapist (husband’’s dad) in India too. India does not seem to understand it, and wants to look at Islam in as good terms as possible. Don”t hate muslims; but I always say Islam is dangerous. Once Pakistan falls, we are next. Public whipping of girls can then be seen in India too.
has ANy terrorist attck EVER made sense?
Recent videos show that this was an inside job. the commandos protecting the sri lankans just disappeared. The attackers just walked away as per latest videos…Supari diya thaa!!! An attempt to malign the “foreign hand”