The start...

The various operations of flushing out terrorists from Trident, Oberoi, Nariman House and Taj are over.

Now will begin the investigations, but one of the most important question after the planning part is the import of arms and ammunition in Mumbai. Be is the Coast Guard or the Police, everybody is involved in some way in overlooking or maybe turning a blind eye while this consignment was coming in.

The corruption started by traders and businessmen to avoid taxes and levies, made them start corrupting the very people who are responsible for checking every thing that comes into a city. These officials are so used to turning a blind eye towards normal consignments that they dont even realize that the consignments they are allowing through might be of dangerous kinds. For them, it might be a "regular" trading item on which the taxes are to be saved for their clients and pocket the money.

This level of corruption needs to be halted at ground level. Everybody needs to understand that one day, the seeds which they are sowing might turn out to be that of a nasty weed. Trading and business community needs to understand that while bribing the officials, they have set such a precedent that has blown up badly in their faces also. Businesses have suffered because of the recent attacks. Everybody is so jittery that even a small rumour is leading to shutting down of establishments for the day.

The officials need to understand, that they have been put up to prevent something, and it is because of their lapse that such huge consignment might have entered Mumbai.