The terrorists who kept several guests as hostages in Taj Mahal and Trident-Oberoi hotel did not make “any demand” and they carried out all the killings before the NSG could start its operations, the chief of the elite commando unit said on Sunday.

“We did not receive any demand from any of the terrorists,” Director General of the NSG, J K Dutt, said in New Delhi on Sunday and suggested that the intention of the rampaging terrorists was not to keep anyone alive.

All the “senseless killings” in the Taj and Oberoi-Trident hotels had been carried out before commando units stormed the buildings, he said, a day after NSG commandos ended the siege at the Taj hotel.

Dutt said the holdout militants had a comprehensive knowledge of the Taj’s terrain, as they were able to move from one place to another “without a misstep.”

Whenever the Special Forces units launched an offensive, the gunmen would set fire to a hotel room to create a diversion, before moving on to a new hiding place.

“For these reasons it was very difficult to dislodge them,” he said.

Dutt also refuted charges that the terrorists had planned to blow up the 105-year-old Taj heritage hotel in a repeat of the Marriott hotel attack in Islamabad which claimed around 60 lives and left more than 250 people injured.

“Terrorists did not appear to have plans to blow up the Taj heritage hotel as they lacked enough explosives,” Dutt said in New Delhi on his return after the NSG mission operations in the financial capital of the country.

The elite force lost its two commandos – Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan and Havildar Gajendra Singh – while eight others were injured during its counter-offensive against terrorists in two of the three locations that witnessed the worst-ever terrorist siege in the country.

Worst of it was the whole scene was captured by the media, and there were numerous police men, just turned out to be mere spectators, not sure if they were out numbered or any other reason, that they could not save a human being ransacked right in front of their eyes.

It seems that the law management anticipated a commotion between two parties of students due to election problems. But they had not taken any precautionary measures.

They are our future generation. They are suppose to think and act really wise. Or atleast use some common sense. 

Even when the whole world is out, lending one’s arm to support a fellow human being, will make us all survive. That is our sole purpose to be bought in to this universe.

UNESCO announces INDIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM as the BEST National Anthem in the World.
Please forward this to all PROUD Indians.
http://weeksupdate.com/2008/09/unesco-announces-indian-national-anthem.html
UNESCO Announces Indian National Anthem ‘Jana Gana Mana’ as the Best National Anthem
Friday, September 19, 2008
Indian National Anthem “Jana Gana Mana” written and composed by Rabindra Nath Tagore has been chosen as the World’s Best National Anthem by UNESCO.

Jana Gana Mana Written in Sanskritised Bengali, it is the first of five stanzas of a Brahmo hymn composed and scored by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

It was first sung at the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress,on 27 December 1911. Jana Gana Mana was officially adopted by the Constituent Assembly as the Indian national anthem on January 24, 1950. The music for the “current version” is said to be derived from a composition for the song by Ram Singh Thakur, although some dispute this.

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