26/11 - Mumbai Attack : My thoughts !!

People are shocked with the Mumbai incident. I am talking about the recent attack of terrorists on 26/11 when so many people were kept as hostages inside Taj, Oberoi and Nariman House.

No doubts our commandos did a brilliant job, hats off to them. But I am sure the whole incident has raised so many open questions. In this note I am also putting some of my questions/thoughts/ideas which I feel can be given some consideration in terms of saving the hostages out of terrorists hands (Warning : This could be really naive:)

• Why the government did not use any negotiator in the whole operation? I have heard that NSG is specially trained to handle the hostage situation then why there is no negotiator part of their team?
• If we know that these terrorists were blinded by some religious faith why cant we have a religious preacher as part of this operation. The preaching could have been an eyeopener to them. Who knows?
• Isn't there any sleeping gas which can help us in making the terrorists unconscious? In this way we could have complete control of the situation. Hostages would have been saved and terrorists would have been caught alive.
  
• Do we have any hypnotism technique which can be used to hypnotise the terrorists? I know I am asking too much :) but ......magicians where are you?

Apart from this I feel we all should be aware of the special guidelines to be followed in these kind of situations. Whether its a hostage, a common man, media, or any other group. I hope we all will be more responsible and alert in these situations for future.

JAI HIND.