Everything we know is wrong?
Nov 29, 2008 Packing heat, Stragety
JOHN THOMPSON: The Mumbai attacks represent a scenario that few Western police and security forces have dared envision. Fewer still have prepared for it.
The basic strategy: use a large number of attackers to overwhelm a target city
November 30th, 2008 at 9:23 am
It was at this stage in the immediate post-9/11 discussions that people would bring up “nuking Mecca”.
Surely nobody would support such a policy these days, and rightly so (especially in the case of India, which has a Muslim president and a very large and peaceful Muslim population). But it’s nonetheless one of the few cards one could play that would provide some hold over the terrorists, some way of checking them at the gate, telling them they do have something to lose after all.
Or would it? I seem to recall we’ve tried a whole lot of these “creative” solutions
November 30th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
What attackable assets do terrorists have that non-terrorists don