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    The author questions why India did not respond militarily to the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, as even minor countries usually do. In a 5-part Twitter thread, the author offers possible explanations such as compromised decision makers in the Congress government who may have been blackmailed by foreign powers due to corruption scandals. Another possibility is that scrapping an anti-terrorism law in 2004 sent a "free run" message to terrorists, as part of the policy of then-Congress head Sonia Gandhi. The true reasons for the lack of response may never be known.

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    The author questions why India did not respond militarily to the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, as even minor countries usually do. In a 5-part Twitter thread, the author offers possible explanations such as compromised decision makers in the Congress government who may have been blackmailed by foreign powers due to corruption scandals. Another possibility is that scrapping an anti-terrorism law in 2004 sent a "free run" message to terrorists, as part of the policy of then-Congress head Sonia Gandhi. The true reasons for the lack of response may never be known.

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    The author questions why India did not respond militarily to the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, as even minor countries usually do. In a 5-part Twitter thread, the author offers possible explanations such as compromised decision makers in the Congress government who may have been blackmailed by foreign powers due to corruption scandals. Another possibility is that scrapping an anti-terrorism law in 2004 sent a "free run" message to terrorists, as part of the policy of then-Congress head Sonia Gandhi. The true reasons for the lack of response may never be known.

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    Twitter thread by Akhilesh Mishra


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    https://twitter.com/amishra77/status/1331810219077242882

    What has always ba led me is why did India not respond at


    all a er #MumbaiTerrorAttack on 26/11 in 2008?

    Even minor countries respond in at least some military way


    a er a terror attack. But consider what India faced in just
    2008 alone (attached chart) and yet no response? 1/5

    More than 450 Indians had been murdered in terrorists


    attacks in 2008 alone. 2004, 2005, 2006 & 2007 had not been
    any less brutal years.

    And yet, despite all of this carnage kind of culminating into


    the #MumbaiTerrorAttacks on 26/11, the Congress
    government kept silent. Why? 2/5

    One plausible explanation could be that the decision makers


    inside government were compromised.

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    For example, we now know, through his own views, that Shiv
    Shankar Menon (FS in 2008) feels that it is legitimate for USA
    to decide India's policies. Was he compromised then? 3/5

    Another explanation is that by the time of


    #MumbaiTerrorAttacks, almost every top person in the
    Congress government was mired in some mega corruption
    scam. Some of these were already out in media.

    Was it that the corrupt were blackmailed by foreign powers


    to keep quiet? 4/5

    Another explanation - first move by UPA in 2004 was to scrap


    POTA. World was getting tough on terror while Congress was
    dismantling laws to fight it.

    Was this "free run" message to terrorists, part of Sonia


    Gandhi's policy, the reason for no response?

    Someday we may know. 5/5

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