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Broads statements was that the commando dived into the bus for his own safety and landed on Broad he thinks that the commandos were not thinking of the safety of the officials but trying to get themselves out alive.
What commandoes? the were bloody regular policemen and from the videos I don't even see any retaliatory firing were they even carrying any weapons with them?
Easier said than done. They were separated and outnumbered after the initial killings of the Police in the car. One guy shooting back would have drawn fire from all the others, essentially suicide. Best practice is to take cover and assess. It really is a disgrace that there weren't more of them in the first place, though. Should be 3-1 or better, ideally.
Seconded.
You're in a bus, surrounded, with them all shooting at you already. Meanwhile another guy is calmly setting up a RPG to shoot at the bus making whatever cover it provides irrelevant, with no-one making him think about needing cover or making him feel pressured. How is the situation really going to get much worse if you shoot back?
Cricinfo - Butt accuses Broad of lies on security
Taufel seems to broadly agree with Broad. I can see that the PCB might not like Broad because of him being fairly outspoken usually, but iirc Taufel was one person who always stuck up for going to Pakistan when there was the discussion about the Champoins Trophy.
Becuase there is more than one target. There were 4-5 vans/buses, containing police officers, players, officials, etc. A sole guy firing from one is a bad idea, because now all the fire is drawn to that one bus. If your bus had only other policemen, it's fine to fire from it. It definitely can get worse. You're putting civilians in unecessary jeopardy if you do anything like that.
Well, hopefully, they are trained to react the right way - not impulsively. In presidential level security, the guy immeadly surrounding the VIP in question generally acts as a body shield. You have commandos and other special ops that are trailing and preceeding the car in question at distances which allow them to flank the attack should one occur. That did not happen, so I doubt they got presidential security. The blame lies with other security, if it did exist, because they did not draw the fire away, and/or did not get in positions to neutralize the threats fast enough. The guy on top of Broad probably did the smartest thing in terms of saving Broad's life. I say probably, because I don't know the facts.
No he isn't, we've just had a few skilled and brave men in the two instances, and some luck that a hand grenade didn't go off.. Bringing faith into real world situations like these are one of the reasons they happen in the first place, absolutely ridiculous..
At least the PCB hasn't lost their sense of irony in all this. Broad has just had assault rifles and f-ing RPGs fired at him, and Ijaz Butt thinks that he'll give a flying f--k about an ICC complaint?
Butt can blabber as much as he can, it was Broad and the umpires who came under fire. and Broads account is verified by the other umpires that security was non existant. Butt is just trying to cover his butt by saying the security was adequate and trying to hide the fact that security was not capable of protecting themselves and the officials.
And how many of those were protecting the umpires bus?
Excellent post.. Think everyone needs to chill out and wait for some more findings before pointing fingers.. obviously the emotion of the situation makes that easier said than done