Interesting theory from Martin Crowe.
"Is it possible these skilled terrorists deliberately attacked a cricket team for global impact but deliberately didn't kill any of that team or officials because they thought that would be wrong?
Weren't the terrorists seen wandering away in a relaxed manner and therefore saw the mission as a success?"
It really answers something that has been puzzling me greatly. The number of attackers is placed between six and twelve and they were at fairly close quarters and seems like all had assault rifles. They players bus was in the field of fire for about 90 seconds (from more than one account). And yet the SL player bus had only ~ 25 bullet holes.
When you think of the rate of fire on those puppies, ie more than enough time to empty a whole magazine each. And the almost complete element of surprise at the begining, the relatively small number of bullet holes simply does not add up.
I can accept that perhaps hitting players might have needed skill and luck on the part of the shooters. But a frickin bus at ~ 100-200 yards!! (insert tasteless Boycott's mum could do it joke). Then add an RPG also missing a bus-sized target in front of you. And people lobbing grenades but not causing damage. Isn't this James Bond movie type of too good to be true? Surely terrorists are not this incompetent.
I go with Martin Crowe on this one. The terrorists fully knew what they were doing.(And their masters too.)
