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Delhi Police and C I A

Delhi Police and C I A

Author: Editorial
Publication: The Free Press Journal
Date: November 8, 2002
URL: http://www.samachar.com/features/081102-editorial.html

Diwali in the national capital passed off peacefully, thanks mainly to some excellent work done by the local police. The cops manned the main markets and meeting places and generally kept a hawk-eye on strangers and strange-looking objects such as bombs and any other form of incendiary material.

Without doubt, a pall of gloom would have hung over the capital had the two Laskar- e-Toiba terrorists succeeded in carrying out their unholy mission to mow down innocent men, women and children in a busy shopping centre in South Delhi the previous evening. The two were spotted coming in on their deadly mission in a stolen Maruti car and were stopped literally seconds before they could perpetrate mayhem.

In the basement parking lot of the multi-storey shopping complex, they were instantaneously felled by the bullets of the cops even before they had a chance to recover their wits caught as they were with total surprise by the Delhi Police. Since the police force everywhere in the country normally tends to lock the door after the stable has emptied, the Delhi Police needs must be commended for having done an excellent job in preventing a Diwali-eve mayhem.

One shudders to think of the enormity of the human tragedy had the two desperadoes succeeded in holding the unwary and innocent shoppers, men, women and children et al, as hostages a la the Akshardhan temple terrorist carnage.

But given our national trait for self-flagellation, even before the Delhi Police could bask in the glory of a job well done, the usual suspects among the secularists and human rights busy-bodies began to question the manner in which the two terrorists had been killed. Because the operation was carried out with surgical precision and the police had suffered no serious casualties, these busybodies began to raise doubts about the police version.

And sure enough, a day later there emerged a self-proclaimed eyewitness who stated to a newspaper correspondent that they two `boys' were killed in cold blood by the police and that there was no encounter whatsoever. This was signal enough for a couple of publicity-seeking columnists, including one who had since graduated to the Rajya Sabha through nomination by a friendly regime, to rope in the National Human Rights Commission on behalf of the terrorists and their masters back in Pakistan.

Acting on their complaint to the NHRC, its chairman Justice J S. Verma lost no time in asking the Delhi Police to submit a report detailing all aspects of the incidents leading to the killing of the two terrorists. For sure, the Delhi Police would provide the requisite information to the NHRC so that all doubts are set at rest. But we wish the NHRC had not played to the gallery, like the two self-styled human rights activists, and instead sought to satisfy itself of the facts of the case without going public. Anything that weakens the resolve of the hard-pressed police and other security agencies to extinguish the challenge of the ISI-exported terrorists cannot but prove deleterious to the national cause.

The question that may sound unfair but nonetheless needs must be asked is whether the human rights professionals and other such busybodies would have been happy had the two terrorists been killed but only after they had convincingly proved their evil credentials by mowing down a score or two of innocent shoppers that evening in the shopping plaza in South Delhi.

Now that we are asking such basic questions we might as well ask as to what would have been the reaction of these busybodies who had made a career by posing as champions of human rights had one of their own near and dear ones been taken hostage by the two Lashkar terrorists.

Artifice and hypocrisy is the virtue of the idle and the attention-seeking armchair human rights activists which the police and other agencies of the State tasked to protect ordinary citizens against the perfidy of the ISI against all odds can ill-afford to match. They have to do their job under a lot of constraints. Admittedly, in the ideal situation the two terrorists should have been nabbed alive. But as the recent experience shows such an option inevitably proves counter-productive.

Terrorists do not give their innocent victims a second chance; the Delhi Police would have been unwise to do so. Meanwhile, we would commend to the nation as a whole the recent missile strike by the CIA operatives in Yemen which killed six Al Qaeda thugs. The CIA carried out the operation against the suspected Oaeda leader, Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi, and five of his accomplices under broad presidential authority.

As reported, President Bush was not required to personally approve the operation. After 9\11, he was empowered to authorize the CIA and other such agencies fighting the menace of terrorists to pursue Qaeda and other anti-US maniacs by all means possible. The killing of Qaeda and his companions in terror was ordered by senior CIA officials. And, surprisingly, nearly a week later no eyewitness has surfaced to shout ` cold-blooded murder' and no human rights activist has filed a complaint with the international human rights body against the killings.

Clearly, a nation as mighty, and as litigious, as the US has to dispense with the dilatory and often unproductive process of prior sanctions, judicial and administrative, to deal with dangerous desperadoes out to kill completely innocent citizens in the name of Islamic jehad. Since we are a poor country with a rickety judicial and administrative set-up, we must per force be weighed down by the tremendous burden of wasteful processes, and, of course, by the self-seeking interventions of numerous busybodies.
 


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