....so too was the pakistani terrorists said to
be fierce hill tribe warriors, fought with each other for
centuries, later with Brits and India, and much feared. They
came to Singapore on a hijacked plane in 1991, thinking
Singaporeans were easy meat.
For one who indulge in so much fluff, it would have been
advisable to carefully stuff more substance with the
fluff to make yourself more believeable.
Are all Pakistanis hill tribe warriors from the
ungovernable North West region that has been hogging the
headlines recently ?
Have you mixed up the amateur Pakistani wannabe
terrorists - who hijacked SQ117 flight from KUL to SGP on 26 March 1991
(*1) - - with the more vicious terrorists that
hit the headlines beheading kidnapped Western journalists ?
But within 30secs upon entering, when most singaporeans
were still asleep, it was the pakistani terrorists whom ended
up on meat hooks, with courtesy by the Singaporean Commandos.
All passengers on board the hijacked plane in Changi
Airpot were saved, safe and sound.
And this is a published fact, but then, how much more would
an MT line ORD personnel be expected to know?
Your continued story telling effort that is filled with all the
fluff, make it sound quite impossible to believe that within
30 seconds of entering the hijacked SQ117 these
Pakistanis had ended up on meat hooks (??? - where
did you get this imaginative thought from ???).
After an entire night of failed negotiations, in which the
hijackers demanded to speak to then Pakistani Prime
Minister Mdm Benazir Buhtto - who refused to take the calls -
the hijackers issued a final ultimatum
at 06.45Hrs to kill one of the
passengers.
The SAF Commandos swung into action in a 30
seconds sweep and by 06.50hrs they declared
the plane secured.
The SAF Commandos was a convenient unit
to conceal the actual unit that took out the
hijackers, and it was eventually revealed that the unit was a
classified newly set up SAF Special Operations Force
trained as an elite counter-terrorism, special reconnaissance and
operations unit.
Enjoy your cracking up, have fun, but live in peace. Be glad you
are on our side.
(BTW, wasnt it the gurkhas whom were supposed to be guarding Mas
Selamat when he escaped? So much for the 'sheathed kukri'. Not much
use, was it? A bunch of them and couldnt even guard a lame
terrorist.)
You should give more credit to the lowly educated Gurkhas
instead of deriding them for their recent failures.
Are the Gurkhas good at guarding human prisoners or static
positions ?
All through the centuries of British military relationship with
the Gurkhas, have they used the Gurkhas as "War Dogs" or
as "Watch Dogs" ?
As much as it was the mistakes made by a low IQ guard, who was
outwitted by a more desperate, determined and cunning Mas
Selamat Kastari, the mistake also lay with the chain of command
that applied the services of the Gurkha poorly and
wrongly.
The fighting quality of the Gurkhas was wrongly used to escort
MSK from jail cell to the toilet and to the Visitor's Center, when
this could have been done by an oridnary prison warden, and the
Gurkha could have better used in external static security
duties guarding the entire facility.
Abstract from -
During the Indonesian Konfrontasi campaign against
Malaysia (*2) - The best known Claret operation
occurred on 21 November 1965. A company from the 2/10 Gurkhas encountered a
platoon sized force of Indonesians in an entrenched position in
Kalimantan opposite Bau. The position was sited in a manner that
meant that there was only one approach, which was along a ridge
that was so narrow that only a small force of three men could move
up it in line-abreast formation.[38]
Lance Corporal Rambahadur Limbu led an
advanced party of sixteen men in an attack on the forward machine
gun position, from where they were to provide support to the rest
of the company during their attack. They were about 10 yards away
when the Indonesian sentry opened fire, wounding one of the Gurkhas
and alerting the rest of the platoon. Seeing the danger that they
were in, Rambahadur Limbu rushed the machine gun and destroyed it
with a grenade. Alerted, the rest of the Indonesian platoon began
to fire on the forward pit, thus making it an untenable position
from which to provide support for the company attack. In order to
report this fact to his platoon commander, Limbu exposed himself to
enemy fire before returning to pull two of his wounded comrades to
safety. An hour long fire-fight followed which has since become
known as the Battle
of Bau, during which the Gurkha company launched
an assault on the Indonesian position. At least 24 Indonesians were
believed killed in the attack, while the Gurkhas suffered three
killed and two wounded.
[38]
Rambahadur Limbu subsequently received the Victoria Cross for his actions,
with a misleading citation to obscure the fact that the operation
was in Kalimantan. The company commander, Captain Kit Maunsell, a
Queen's Gurkha Officer, Lieutenant Ranjit Rai, and the artillery
forward observation officer, Lieutenant Doug Fox, Royal Artillery,
attached to 137 (Java) Light Battery, each received the Military Cross.
This is what makes legends and provide the colors that make
a fighting unit proud.
The SAF has a long way more to go, especially when during the
Konfrontasi - 2SIR had one section of 8 men caught
bathing in a river near to Labis in Johor, and were ambused by
the maurading Indonesian infiltrators whom these boys were sent to
hunt.
From the group of 8 men - one survived, two were
wounded, the rest were killed and had their body mutiliated.
The rest of 2SIR redeemed themselves when they successfully
tracked and killed the Indonesian inflitrators, and returned
them the favor in their desired body art.