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| India-Pakistan |
| IAF on high alert, cancels leave of key personnel |
| 2008-12-10 |
| New Delhi: Indian Air Force (IAF) has been put on the highest level of readiness since Operation Parakram in 2001. The level of readiness has been raised to 'Passive Air Defence' (PAD). The high alert is in response to heightened perceptions of air attack on Indian positions. All IAF aircraft have been armed with bombs and missiles and are ready to take off within minutes. Even the warships of the Western Naval Fleet are aggressively patrolling the Arabian Sea. The alert has been sounded in view of intelligence reports of air strikes at Indian installations from across the border or an aerial attack by terrorists groups based in Pakistan. However, the alert is still defensive in nature and intended to protect Indian targets. Leave of all key personnel in the Western and South-Western Air Commands, which face Pakistan, has been cancelled. Percentage of personnel allowed to go on leave, too, has been reduced from 30 per cent to 10 per cent. However, there is still no mobilisation of troops on the border and Indian Army is not on the highest level of readiness. Following the Mumbai terror attack, the defence chiefs had briefed defence Minister AK Antony about the steps being taking to beef up security at the border and to prevent a 9/11 type of terror attack involving aircrafts. It would appear that Indian intelligence has received some kind of buzz about a 9-11 style Islamo-kazi attack. With the 'stans just over various borders, it wouldn't be necessary for the jihadis to hijack a plane, they could just buy one and fly it out. During Operation Parakram, IAF was on 'Active Air Defence", which means aircrafts were primed to destroy enemy targets. |
| Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy |
| #6 You and me both, Anguper Hupomosing9418. At some point, if they want war so badly, India is going to have to give it to them. If I might suggest, bouncing critical rubble is probably wise, that the jihadis lose the things they so dearly want to have at hand when they die. /easy for me to say, I know. I'm sure those in charge of such things have been thinking about the problem for longer than the 20 seconds I devoted to it. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-12-10 22:08 |
| #5 The correct response would be for inda to get a team with vans, drive around pakistan kidnapping people and ejecting them with scopalamine and ebola. Lets see if disposable terror teams still seam like a good idea after that. |
| Posted by: flash91 2008-12-10 17:15 |
| #4 Whew! the headline made me think the Israeli Air Force was in high alert. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-12-10 12:38 |
| #3 The assymetry displayed in the past 2 weeks in Pakistan/India is foretelling. It isn't a matter of 'stopping an attack', but the ability to temper a response that is exactly what the 'enemy' desires. India is under assault and being goaded into a military response. The question India & others should be asking is 'who benefits?' by stoking war fears. The answer is all-to-obvious with analysis. |
| Posted by: logi_cal 2008-12-10 10:52 |
| #2 Via NYTimes The Mumbai police said Tuesday that the 10 men who carried out the terrorist attacks here last month were among 30 recruits selected for suicide missions, and that the whereabouts of the other 20 were unknown. |
| Posted by: Muggsy Omoper9148 2008-12-10 07:15 |
| #1 I hope they stop it. And I hope they catch Pakistan red handed. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-12-10 07:05 |