Mumbai terror attacks -End result = Nothing.

India’s political class has failed, they have failed this nation at every step, and they have lied to the nation and to the families of the innocent victims who have died in every terrorist attack on this country. Words fail me to describe the Indian political class

India is a weak country and it has a weak government, this is a known fact in the global corridors of power.

It is the Indians who elected a weak government. Remember 26/11 Mumbai attack? Or is it forgotten? The big question is what happened to the investigation? What happened to the dossier sent by India to Pakistan? (Was there a need to even talk to Pakistan regarding this case?)

What happened to the incessant rhetoric by the knaves and queen of India about punishing perpetrators of the attack? What happened to the rhetoric on 26/11 and Indian strategy of reigning terrorism?

All gone down the drain, those were television bytes for the people of India, just meant to control the rising anger and frustration of the people with this weak government, blast after blasts and nothing happened, a media savvy home minister would come and say" we are sorry for this".

Now that Pakistan has so clearly stated....that India can go and hop about doing any thing to the perpetrators of 26/11 attack,....what is the PM, home minister, foreign minister, NSA and the cabinet doing about it? Nothing...they are resting on there laural's of what they have achieved this far with this investigation.

The Congress party is very well known for appeasing the minority community, just to achieve there political goals, every thing they do or is done just please a certain section of Indian society.

The Indian media is also party to this game it has very conveniently side stepped the issue 26/11 Mumbai attacks and has killed it as they have done in the past with terrorist attacks on India...

Indian media has learned the craft of creating doubts in the minds of the people.... It no more talks about the attack or the victims or the investigation? Victims what victims...the terrorist is the real victim, the actual victim and his family are forgotten…

Where have all the loudspeakers and paper tigers vanished?

Currently they are hiding behind the grab of “pseudo secularism” and doing nothing as they are a worried lot, if they take had taken any action their vote bank would have been affected and they may not have fared well in the forthcoming general elections...

Do lives of Indians have no value?... Will our weak and scared government... continue to sacrifice the lives of Indians for its vote bank politics?

Every Indian has a right to ask these questions and DEMAND an answer from the current government which has hoodwinked a nation.

Terrorism can not be dealt with soft words or soft actions, if India has to fight terrorism then it has to return the same back with interest, the unwilling of Congress (UPA) to even follow the Supreme court of India’s ruling of death sentence for “Afzal Guru” the terrorist who was involved in attacking Indian Parliament shows that India is soft on terrorism and shows to what level the current ruling government will go to fight terrorism. The ruling Congress (UPA) is worried about the votes of the minority community and has refused to carry out the sentence.

A weak government which shies away from taking care of issues like terrorism does not deserve to be in power? Indians need to elect a strong government and have to end the dynastic rule of the weak.

India still lacks that critical mass of either middle class or educated people to put fear of god in the minds of Indian politicians, who are mired in corruption, well known for bad governance and have long criminal records yet they manage to win elections and find loopholes in the law and arrogantly sit in the Parliament, to some extend Indians are be blamed for this mess.

A nation, what ever it has achieved in the past....will always remain weak till the time it does not take care of its people.....a nations face is it's government and today the Indian government is weak from inside and in might.....and that reflects on the nation.

A media without ethics and government without spine make perfect soul mates each compliments the other. Today India has become a paradise for terrorist’s they know nothing will happen to them as there saviors rule now.

Mumbai Attacks--26/11

India has a partly failed state on its west, a state which has no control over its own arms and intelligence agencies a state which has got nuclear weapons, a situation if not handled correctly and swiftly may see Taliban getting the nuclear weapons, Pakistan has followed the path laid down by the then military dictator Gen Zia and the then ISI head Hamid Gul who is known to have sympathies for the fundamentalists(Taliban ,AQ).

Today what we see is the extension of “Op Topac” and its use in Pakistani Foreign Policy, the use of it can be seen in India from 1980 onwards till date, Afghanistan and shades of it in China. instigating the Chinese muslims…Pakistan has a direct or indirect involvement in many global terrorist attack.

Still we sit and just watch as a robotic prime minister and an incompetent home minister have nothing concrete to say to this nation and are taking the nation to a collective hara-kiri.

This is the limit and the water has crossed the danger mark, the time of being "Politically Correct" is over, time has come to fight this threat with equal ruthlessness. The US fought in its own way and India will do so in its own way...There will be no quarter given or asked for and this time it will be as ruthless as it can get.

Domestic and the so called global, Islamic and Pakistani apologist just talk to people who think like them...but this is a nation of 1 billion and its pulse is speaking a very different language this time......and it is not the language of the apologists or what the biased International Media has to say or comment…..

The Indian government has woken up suddenly because this time as the Indian Elite was hit hard, earlier it was the common man who was blown to bits and was forgotten...

There was a trend emerging in Indian print, television media, NGO and the human rights org. that the terrorist is innocent the victims are to blame for where they were and what they have done....

With this attack the vested interests in both Indian print and television media who try and brain wash the Indian masses should know that this time the Indian people will not forget or forgive....them.

Indian media both print and television has become mouth piece of the politically correct and of a particular community apologists...

I wish this much hue and cry was made when Delhi, Jaipur Ahemdabad, Bangalore were hit by serial blasts.

This time the cream,Page-3 chittarati, the elite was hit the business community was hit and now every one is asking for an answer, people like us are just cannon fodder, we don’t get answers, we get blown to bits ,try and protect others, yet no response from the government but when the Elite gets hit the political class Shi---- in there pants.

Unlimited and Total Democracy in India is a failed political thought; It has taught generations of Indian’s “If some one slaps you show the other cheek” this time the people have realized that behind this shield the political class has been making merry and supporting the terrorists and over looking there deeds by saying they are misguided youths as this misguided youth and there community is there main political vote bank.

Time has come to follow the dictum of “An eye for an eye and Blood for blood” you don’t talk to a terrorist you kill him so that you have one less terrorist to deal with.

Mind sets have changed as a Billion strong people’s pulse is not in tune with the political class’s thought process….they better watch it this time….

There is a simple question for the politicians will attack be avenged??

Who is responsible for this attack on Indian soil by the Pakistani based Lashker e Tabia, where does the buck stop?

The politicians can not absolve them self by bullshitting on television and in print media and get escort free.As ever the Indian cabinet lost the window of opportunity for striking terrorist training camps based in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.

This is India…and you and I are cannon fodder for the Jihadis and there caretakers saviors….who are the Politicians and the Indian print and television media…..

Indians don’t want hollow words from hollow ,spineless politicians they want revenge and blood in return for blood lost.

The New Killing Fields (IGI Airport Delhi)

Woman techie found dead at IGI Airport.
24 Oct 2007, 0329 hrs IST,TNN

NEW DELHI: A 29-year-old senior technician with Air Deccan was found dead, in mysterious circumstances, on a taxiway at the domestic airport here on Monday night. The police and airport authorities appeared foxed as the family members of the victim, Sansruti Sinha, suggested that it could be murder. The theory was ruled out eventually. The post mortem report said it appeared to be a case of "vehicular accident".

Sansruti, who was to get married soon, was spotted lying in a pool of blood at the airport's E taxiway around 10pm by a SpiceJet pilot. The pilot immediately informed the Air Traffic Control. The aiport manager was alerted. He called up the police at 10.10pm. Sansruti's head was badly crushed and there were severe injuries on other parts of her body.

The police say it seems to be a case of hit-and-run. Strange as it may seem, nobody saw Sansruti being hit by any vehicle. She was found lying on the edge of the taxiway. After talking to the Air Deccan staff, the police came to the conclusion that she was walking towards the hangar to examine an Air Deccan aircraft when she was hit by an unidentified vehicle.

Sansruti's wrist-watch had stopped functioning and showed 9.55pm when the cops examined her body. The police said it was due to the ‘impact' and that it proved there was no delay in informing the cops about the incident as had been suggested earlier.

The body was sent to the Safdarjung Hospital for autopsy and Sansruti's maternal uncle, who lives in Faridabad, was informed. The victim's parents live in Patna. The police have registered a case under IPC sections 279 (rash and negligent driving), 304A (causing death by negligence) and 201 (destruction of evidence). "We are not ruling out anything, but going by the nature of injuries and spot examination, it does seem that she was hit by a vehicle," said joint commissioner of police (operations) Aditya Arya.

he autopsy report also stated that it seemed to be a vehicular accident. It mentioned severe injuries on the skull and multiple fractures in the ribs.

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The ramp,air side as we call it is the most dangerous place at the airport, it is safer to walk on Delhi roads than on air side at IGI Airport.

The fog season is approaching and it is a daily tryst with death which all airlines employees take when they go to air side to to handle flights, only one of the reputed carrier gives its staff vehicles to move around the rest of us have to walk through "ZERO VISIBILITY" to reach the parking bays.This is not the first death on the air side some time back,a security staff of a airline was killed when he was guarding a aircraft , he was run over by a bus and died on the spot and that brought the AAI to enforce the safety jacket rule.

In another case the vehicle belonging to a LCC at early morning rammed in a jeep and was smashed to smithereens the driver was driving over 90 kmh on the taxi way, the same driver was famous for rash driving at the airport and was involved in many accidents and still he was given an ADP( airport driving permit)

There are fixed speed limits on the air side but most of the drivers don't follow these limits, the reason is that most of the drivers and in some cases all the drivers of the airlines are out sourced, they come from local agencies who make it to airport handling business by greasing palms all the way, in some cases the drivers don't even know how to drive a bus as they have never driven a heavy vehicle and some of them use the air side as a place where they learn how to drive.Accident are a common thing at IGI airport as drivers don't keep in speed limits as they are under pressure to move fast from one aircraft to another, they are untrained and caution is thrown to the wind.

Air Deccan started the out sourcing bug and to cut costs they picked staff of the lowest possible denominator so that costs are kept as low as possible, it is simple you don't pay well you don't get quality staff. It is always the man behind the machine who makes the difference not the machine. I don't think the LCC will agree to that for them.


The vehicle which hit the the Technician can not leave the airport , it would be parked at the airport, it is for the police to find that,if they want to.The DP test conducted by the AAI is a joke and any one can get an ADP, in some cases people have been driving with expired ADP and there is no one to check them.

As it is said airport is a place where many things happen in broad day light and in the silence of the dark night and they get buried deep there and then.

Low Cost Airlines- A Risk to the Aviation.....

By Manju.V--TNN
Times of India.


Despite threat, airlines not spending enough on security

Your favourite airline may have gourmet fare on its menu. It may have the best check-in facilities, a well-appointed lounge, efficient cabin crew, good on-time performance and the best airfares the season can bring.

But, what no single airlines in India has is a reliable security network. Despite airlines being top terror targets and despite repeated warnings from Indian security agencies, airlines continue to cut costs on security bills with impunity.

What is amazing is that the amount spent on security comes to only about 0.75% to 1% of the total operating costs or about $70 (around Rs 2,900) a flight. This is the case with all airlines in India," a highly placed airline security official said. "But it does not make any sense to cut corners like this. The expenditure on security will go up to only $100 a flight (a little less than Rs 4100) if the minimum security measures recommended by the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) are followed," he added.

Peeved by the airlines' lackadaisical handling of the matter, the BCAS called a meeting of aviation industries' top bosses in May this year and issued a circular stating that the recommendations should be "strictly implemented".

The circular, a copy of which is with TOI, says: "No action has been taken by (the) airlines to implement the committee's recommendations till date. It is, therefore, imperative that the following instructions are strictly implemented by (the) airlines with immediate effect.

That was in May. But nothing has changed despite the UK-terror expose and the numerous security threats to flying. None of the airlines is in a mood to spend that extra $ 25.

And, it's not about X-ray machines or passenger-frisking. The violations cover high-risk areas. Airlines, for instance, do not have even a single security personnel to guard the idle Boeings and Airbuses; they do not have any one posted in the area where check-in baggage is segregated for different destinations; pre-flight, anti-sabotage checks are hardly carried out in accordance with the details in the security manuals.

Time-saving measures adopted by the airlines mean they completely do away with a certificate of security that should be given to a commander when the aircraft is being handed over to him.

This certificate should be signed by the engineering department (it certifies that anti-sabotage measures have been carried out according to the inspection schedule); the catering department (it certifies that catering items have been checked and the crew received them without complaints); the ground support department (it certifies that
equipment attached to aircraft have been checked and only seal-ed/security cleared baggage has been loaded on board); the commercial department (it certifies that all baggage and cargo have been checked); and the security department (it certifies that all the above have been carried out).

"Only commanders of Air India, Indian Airlines get a certificate from the commercial department, accounting only for the security of baggage, passenger and cargo. The rest don't even get that," a BCAS official based in Delhi said.

The security recommendations were made in the R P Singh Committee's report dated June 2001.

The civil aviation ministry had constituted this committee to fix norms for deployment of airlines security staff.

Representatives from airlines like Jet Airways, Indian Airlines and Air India were present on this committee.

The BCAS had called for the implementation of the committee's recommendations by September 2005 but nothing happened.

The recommendations are based on the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)'s guidelines, which means airlines in other countries like the United States and the United Kingdom follow them religiously.


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What ever said but it is difficult to believe that the Low Cost Airlines will follow what is told to them by the regulatory body.The top management for there own financial benefits risk the lives of thousand of passenger's every year.
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VT on security

Dummies Guide to IGI Delhi Airport India

Dummies Guide to DELHI Airport

This is a Dummies guide to Airports in India.

Airports are cities in them self and people are can get lost in them, they are like 7 star hotels with every thing thrown in them, I can not say the same about airports in India. I am writing this for people who will come to India so that they have a knowledge of the airports before hand.

Most of the Indian airports are vintage the Delhi airport from where the Private airlines depart is a vintage WW-2 era airport , Delhi is getting a new airport and work is going on at a killing speed the government has asked a private consortium GMR-FRAPO to make this airport and it will be the best in Asia and far east, till then we all have to make do with what we have a patched up airport with basic amenities. The IGI domestic airport is divided in three parts.

Terminal -1-A Departure: All domestic flights of the Indian national carrier now known as INDIAN (earlier known as Indian Airlines) and Kingfisher Airlines fly from here, so remember when you book a flight by Indian or King Fisher then go to Terminal- 1A- IGI Domestic Airport.

This a relatively a well organized and a very small departure terminal , this building was build when the old terminal caught fire, it is small so , has got a small parking, it has a ATM inside (only one) and has coffee shops and a business class lounge inside.

Both Indian and King Fisher have ticket and information window’s before you enter inside the terminal. Immediately after entry you will see the X-RAY machines, show your ticket and get your baggage X-RAYD make sure you get it strapped and they put a security clear sticker on it.Then get your boarding card and head for the security hold area, once inside relax and enjoy (Alcohol is not served on any flight in India however you can have a drink at the (King Fisher lounge J )

Terminal-1 B Departure: This is the vintage WW-2 departure terminal where a lot of patch work has been done and if you are looking for some peace of mind forget it when you come here it is a battle and you have to win it, this terminal has all the private airlines departures like Jet airways, Jet Lite, Deccan airways, Spice jet, MDLR airlines and Go air and Indigo. Apart from Jet airways all are Low Cost Carriers, it is a royal mess on a day when flights are delayed or late or canceled due to fog, which is just at the corner.

This is the most crowded terminal, you will see long lines (during rush hours) to get inside and once inside then another line to get your baggage X-RAYED and then a line at the counter, it can drive you mad, so have an I-POD or a book to maintain your sanity or you will go mad.

The moment you get down from your cab look a little up and you will boards hanging from the top where you will see the names of the airlines and the gate numbers, so head for the gate show your passport and ticket and head for the airline controlled X-RAY , get your baggage strapped and make sure the security check sticker is put on your bag.

REMEMBER DO NOT KEEP ANY KIND OF CASH, JEWELRY, IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS or VALUABLES IN YOUR CHECKED BAGGAGE, in case of loss the airline don’t take any kind of responsibility for it.

Head for the counter and get your boarding card don't forget to get your hand baggage tags, now the problem starts the lines for security check are quite long and when you reach there make sure you take what ever you are carrying in your hand baggage and your cell phone on a tray to be x-rayed, then head for the frisking booth ( ladies are frisked separately) get your boarding card stamped and your hand baggage tag’s stamped by the A.P.S.U. (airport security unit) Remember you don’t have a stamp on your boarding card or hand baggage tag, you will not be allowed to board.

It is a very small security hold area so first grab some thing to eat and then grab a seat and wait for your boarding call.

Departing from Delhi’s terminal 1B can be an experience of a life time. Be at the airport 3 hours before the departure and be prepared to wait for delayed departures as winters are approaching “ fog station” will be declared in some time….

Before I close this beware of touts when you get down at terminal-1B, there is no charge for trolleys don’t let any one hold the trolley for you or take it till the gate... these guys are touts, look out any airline staff to guide you.

When you face the terminal building the Airport Managers office will be on your left just after the Nescafe coffee booth. (there will be a duty airport manager there, if you have a complain or are facing a problem they will help you out)

Any question then leave comments and I will reply back .…. Here's wishing you a happy landing….

Note:Please don't follow the dummies guide word by word, this is as real as it gets, as the airport is under construction,actual places may change and for that please don't hold me responsible.

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National Threat Advisory Bulletin .....

I think the Aviation regulatory body should take a leaf out of the U.S Homeland Security and start a National Threat Advisory Bulletin on a day to day basis ,the air traveler and the general public has the right to know what are the threat levels in the country on a particular day, for that matter every citizen has the right to know.

We work in a system which has taught us " no one needs to know any thing if he is traveling by air then he should know better " keep the information to your self, some time i ...wonder "does he know what i know....... i can not do any thing ....I look at him and that's all...

Funny and amazing , nothing ever happens here for the positive after IC-814 and 9/11 the logical step should have been to start this bulletin but we did not,I think some one is waiting for some thing to happen...we have faced terrorism for the past 20 or more years and have lost approximately more than 40,000 people to it. We should be going ahead laying down standards to secure our skies... but the amazing part is that we are not at all bothered...

People get killed we don't learn from our past and from our mistakes, the system provides a knee jerk reaction to cover up for lost opportunities....or for its lack of initiatives..

The new threat is emerging now here is...as Nepalese govt and the Moist have parted way's , the influx of the Maoist carders in to India can not be ruled out...as the borders are open between both countries ....there has always been a threat to Indian aviation from the Maoist( Nepal) and other Indian groups...who have the same political bearing's .

A change has to come in the mind set of the Aviation security system here....other wise we may face problems....

Aviation (Airline) security here works with its one hand tied behind its back...pressurised by the airline management to take short cuts and the regulatory body standing on our heads...for a quid pro quo......

Security Culture in India......

Every AVSEC professorial would agree that threat to the civil aviation comes from the assumption that there is no room for improvement and every thing is right and hunky dory. If a loophole exists ,then someone, some where will find it and try and exploit it to its fullest, are we looking at the future threats? the most dangerous threat to the aviation sector is the new and emerging threat posed by the "Internet".The more connected we are the more venerable we become.

There is a culture in airlines and that is catching like fire "sending a flight on time is more IMPORTANT than ,sending a SECURE flight".

AVIATION SECURITY is a forgotten sector here in India, we confuse it with SAFETY if a flight is safe for most in the airline it means that the flight is also "SECURE",after IC-814 we have not faced any major disaster that does not mean that we put our guard down.

The best defense against any terrorist does not come in the form of new technology or developments in EVDs or x-ray scanners or the latest CCTV "it comes in the form of the human brain and investment in sharpening human brain to its best possible capacity and that is an investment worth taking". It is always the man behind the machine.

I am not saying that technology is not good but i believe the more you take in technology the more venerable you become,lets not keep our flanks unprotected. A human asset will always be more important than the technology.Technology will always be an helping hand to the human brain.

While saying that, the investment in technology is below the desired level here and need a boost immediately, the investment in human brain is at a ok level when it comes to Aviation security we have not been able to create a much desired security culture among the passengers which is most important.

Aviation Security department in every airline is considered to be a nuisance as it asks WHERE ,WHEN and HOW, as of today we don't have a generation of AVSEC officers (apart from the officers who retire from the AVSEC regulatory body)who can later be the bed rock of airlines of the future,people want to leave this trade as salaries are low there are no promotions,frustration among the staff.....

lets hope we are able to develop a security culture in India.