Our Backstabbing Neighbours

Dear Indian Citizens

Today I just happened to read fully about the IC-814 Indian Airlines that was Hijacked in Kandahar in 1999. I also watched the documentary on National Geographic Channel.
Most of you might already know this but I still wanted to share with you since if we dont learn from our past mistakes we will be forced to repeat it and face the consequences.

I was surprised by the following findings :

1. The Plane took off from Nepal and entered Indian air space around 5:30pm evening. Thats when the hijackers took control and diverted it west hoping to land it in Lahore. But due to lack of fuel it was decided to take the plane to Amritsar for refuelling but was aborted at the last minute as the hijackers feared being immobilised at the airport. The air craft didnt land and took off to Lahore.
At Lahore the Pakistani authorities too shut down all the lights initially but finally allowed it to refuel as the plane was about to crash land. Here the Pakistani officials cruelly rejected the pilots request to offload some women and children as they said relations between India and Pakistan were tense! They wanted this to play out so that the outcome would be maximum casualties in the form of innocent passengers.

This was the first backstab we got from our neighbour.

The next thing that happened was the plane was taken to Dubai where it again refuelled and some passengers were released due to mounting pressure on the hijackers. Here the Indian officials wanted to plan a commando operation but was rejected by highly placed Islamic officials who didnt want to kill their muslim brethren. This was the second backstab we received from an Islamic nation and neighbour.

The Flight finally took off to Kandahar. Here too the Taliban Militants with average IQs did a Coup de grace or shall we say the Coup de maytre where the Taliban pretended to be helping us negotiate and get the hostages released and at the same surrounding the aircraft. So if they withdrew the hijackers would get a signal that a commando strike would be imminent. This effectively nullified our chances of carrying out a commando style operation. The Commandos were bought secretly on a special aircraft without alerting the hijackers on board and the Taliban was intent on blowing that cover. All experts agreed that had the Taliban not been in the middle we could have easily captured the terrorists.

The final blow came when even after all the passengers were freed and safe, the Taliban happily escorted the hijackers and handed them to Pakistani Army generals who gave them a heroe's welcome. They live freely in Pakistan. The terrorists who were released from Indian prisons carried out the worst terrorist strikes two years later :

1. Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who had been imprisoned in connection with the 1994 Kidnappings of Western tourists in India, went on to behead and murder Daniel Pearl and also allegedly played a significant role in planning the September 11 attacks in the United States. He was rewarded secretly at an Iftaar party by Pakistani President and Army officials with the Jashn E Jihadi for his valiant efforts.

2. Maulana Masood Azhar — founded Jaish-e-Muhammed in 2000 which gained notoriety for its alleged role in the 2001 Indian Parliament attack and whick killed around 10 Indian soldiers. 

3. Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar — has played an active role since release in training Islamic militants in POK.


Its also highly tragic that the Indian Govt at the time under Vajpayee was lazing around and it took them four days before they even dispatched an official to Kandahar to "begin" negotiations. what were they waiting for ? Some argue that they purposely delayed it so that the world could get good publicity of how Indians were being targetted by terrorists. The more the delay the more the breaking news hogging the limelight and reducing vote count for Islamic terrorism. I doubt it sometimes if it made any difference it only helped the terrorists get bigger targets. 

This is how Israeli Air Force and Mossad would have handled aircraft hijackings as it has successfuuly done in the past.

Lets say the Hijacking was like the IC-814 at 17:30 IST

STEP 1. 18:00 Dispatch Mossad Commandos to designated Airport within 2 hours.

STEP 2. 20:00 Sneak in Commandos to surround the aircraft and below it. Mark the moving terrorists using infrared sensors and beacons.

STEP 3 : FLY 3-4 F161 Jets to fly at Mach 3 over Stranded Airplane. This would shatter all the windows of the aircraft and the terrorists wouldnt know what has hit them or has happened. The shredded glass is not a danger as they are specially customised that way so passengers are unhurt but there is total panic and confusion.

STEP 4: Commandos to immediately storm the aircraft and take down the terrorists already marked using infrared sensors.

This invovles a risk of  casualties but a country like Israel doesnt bow down to terrorist threats. 
Many countries have a no negotiation policy. This leaves very little for terrorists but to blow up the plane and themselves which puts a different spin to the whole game and very few would venture out. Also the terrorists wouldnt risk their intelligent few to die this way. 
Even if these countries would have released the terrorists it would have made sure they were dead after some time covertly.

Pakistan harboured and continues to harbours terrorists. It should be banned like Iran as a rogue nation. 

But most Indians are so pathetically still interested in playing cricket with them when the likes of former pakistani captain javed miandad's eldest son Junaid married Mahrukh daughter of Dawood Ibrahim responsible for most of the blasts in Mumbai and India.

When will we learn from our mistakes and remove the wool from our eyes about fostering ties with Islamic Nations that foster terrorism ? !!