Learn from USA, Advani advises Rahul-This repeated attack on Mumbai should be viewed as a policy failure. 2011-07-15

Learn from USA, Advani advises Rahul(Different point of view on this attack...VT)

By: Sanjay Pandey Date: 2011-07-15 Place: Mumbai

On a visit to the city yesterday, the senior BJP leader did not take too kindly to the Gandhi scion's remark that it was "difficult to stop every terror attack" ON his visit to the city a day after three blasts ripped through the heart of its business hubs, senior BJP leader LK Advani did not take too kindly to Rahul Gandhi's statement that the government couldn't possibly stop all terror attacks. LK Advani visits the blast site at Dadar Addressing a press conference, Advani said the Gandhi scion and the government could learn valuable lessons from how the United States had handled its security situation after 9/11. "As far as I know, nothing has happened in America since 9/11 despite them being the No 1 enemy of the jihadis," he said. Advani also took potshots at Home Minister P Chidambaram for calling the attacks an 'intelligence failure' and said it wasn't just the intelligence that had failed and that the Government's policy towards terror itself was a failure. "I condemn the blasts. This repeated attack on Mumbai should be viewed as a policy failure. If the government does not change its policy (towards tackling terrorism), such attacks will keep recurring. The government should shed its ambivalence towards terrorism and should apply the policy of zero tolerance against it, at least after Wednesday's blasts," Advani, who visited the blast sites and the injured at JJ Hospital, said. Asked whether the Indian Mujahideen (IM) was responsible for the blasts, Advani said, "Even if it is the IM, they get support from Pakistan. The perpetrators of the attack should be demolished irrespective of whether they belong to an indigenous or foreign outfit." Speaking on Pakistan, he said, "We can change history, but not geography. As per my knowledge, common people in Pakistan are not happy with their government's obsession with Kashmir. Countries which have used terror as an instrument have themselves suffered because of it." Sena's take Reacting to Rahul Gandhi's statement and lambasting the Congress for its alleged inaction against terrorism, Shiv Sena Executive President Uddhav Thackeray said that instead of just saluting the resilient spirit of Mumbaikars, the government should see to it that innocent people don't suffer. "It is very difficult to stop every single terrorist attack. The idea is that we have to fight terrorism at the local level. We have improved in leaps and bounds. But terrorism is something that is impossible to stop all the time," Gandhi had said in Bhubaneshwar yesterday.