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Missed clues and lax security in runup to Pathankot Indian Air Force base attack
[DAWN] The hijacking of an Indian police officer's car by gunnies disguised in uniform should have set off alarm bells and helped prevent a deadly weekend attack on a military air base, officials and security experts said.His colleagues' slowness to react was one of several security lapses in the buildup to the pre-dawn raid, blamed by India on alleged Pak murderous Moslems and a blow to the recent improvement in ties between the nuclear-armed neighbours. Three days on from an assault that killed seven military personnel and maimed 22, five attackers have also been eliminated, but an operation was still under way to secure the sprawling compound in India's northwestern Punjab. Police Superintendent Salwinder Singh's call to a colleague in the early hours of Friday morning, after his car was hijacked, was at first treated as a case of armed robbery, the officer who answered the phone said. "The truth is that we did not take Singh's complaint seriously, because his record has not been clean," a second senior officer in the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard 2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers 3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... police told Rooters, on condition of anonymity. An Indian Army truck transports troops to the air force base in Pathankot- AFP Posted by: Fred 2016-01-06 |
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