Mumbai Attacks - Indian Intelligence Realty

We have Mumbai under attack on Nov. 26, 2008 - this was covered live 24*7 on CNN and every other News channel. Few articles worth reading.

About Indian Intelligence - BBC Must Read Article.

Few Noticeable Points:
'the local police and intelligence agencies appeared to have failed to act on any of the information - despite doubts as to whether the information was shared promptly enough between the Mumbai authorities. This is a story which keeps repeating itself in a country which has been hit by over half a dozen big "terror attacks" this year'

'six days after the attack, even the number of dead and injured keeps going up and down, due to poor co-ordination between the police and hospitals.'

'The Mumbai attacks prove that the whole system is falling apart. The police in India are working on manpower and equipment assessments last made in the 1970s," says security analyst Praveen Swami. '

'The Mumbai police - like most police in India - remain in a time warp: they are equipped with World War II vintage rifles and carbines handed down by the army. In most states, an average policeman's salary and status is equivalent to that of an unskilled municipal worker, encouraging corruption. '

'Painfully slow and lazy bureaucracy means that the modernisation of the security forces often takes ages. Police in Uttar Pradesh state took four years to buy imported surveillance equipment. By the time it arrived, it had become outdated and now lies disused.'

Now the million dollar Question - Why do we think that these attacks would not come back in some form or the other??