You know what's really funny about articles like that, though? They're built on the presumption that the Police wouldn't already be investigating all of those avenues to establish a timeline of events. Questions like "Why hasn't x been investigated?" are easily answered by anyone who has ever worked in a Police environment with "Investigations take time and resources are limited."
They're also built on the presumption that the results of such lines of inquiry will be publicly available or up for discussion. Err, no. "Are the CCTV records of the hotels available?" Yes. Not to you.
A lot of the questions are also built on the assumption that everything in the real world works perfectly, money is no object to safety and prevention, etc. Questions like "Why do the best hotels in Mumbai have such pathetic security?" Security costs money and it's all very well to demand perfect security to prevent a highly infrequent event when you're not the one to pay for it.
"How come the terrorists were able to fight for more then 40 hours? This is very clear that all these people got the arms and weapons ready on site in advance. Isn't this a question on the qualification and intelligence of our police and all other security agencies?"
No it's not. It's because something like a large-scale terrorist attack with multiple strongholds where the terrorist, by definition, have the drop on the local Police is a complex thing to deal with. Mistakes occur, communication between the decision-makers themselves or with the troops on the ground is rarely perfect, bad decisions in hindsight are made with what seems good info at the time, stuff doesn't work, stuff dies, people die, plans fall apart, etc. There is no one, regimented way to deal with such a fluid situation and when things get hairy, **** happens. Facts of life in a police response. It's why counter-terrorism practice ops are done regularly and different models for how to organise the troops are tested; there are different ways to respond to different situations.
Sure, the local Police might not have been in the best position to deal with the whole thing. But I reckon, transferring what happened to, say, Sydney would have resulted in a pretty similar outcome. That one of their higher-ups got knocked-off in the early stages would not have helped matters.
So easy to Monday-morning quarter-back these sorts of things, no kidding.
