I watched the video of the SWAT team rescue attempt.
I'm not trying to be an armchair general, but I really had to
cringe while watching it.
WTF were they doing, smashing windows here and there? The
element of surprise was totally lost when they did that.
At one point in time, the fella smashing in the door actually
somehow hurled the jackhammer right into the bus. Huh?
And then they tried to throw lightsticks in there. No
nightvision equipment ah?
All that is a great way of telling the hijacker that 'We
want to storm the bus, and we're trying to smash our way in.
Because we can't see you properly, we're going to light our way
with lightsticks.'
Kaoz.... just position snipers around the bus, and take down the
fella once any one of them got a clear shot!
Yeah, at the rate of incompetence the Philippine SWAT team have,
they mind as well, take a bulldozer to try to ram a hole into the
bus for the SWAT to storm in.
They make some glaring mistakes:
1) No smoke bomb
2) No night vision
3) No stun grenade
4) No flash grenade
5) No element of surprise
6) Fail to break through the window (comical)
7) Fat SWAT team, they can't even squeeze thru the door leave
alone the window
8) Incompetent hostage negotiators, should hav lied to the
hostage taker that they promise him and then moment he give up,
give him super long sentence in jail
9) They allow the press too much freedom, even the hostage taker
can watch the Live TV of the hostage
10) Police fail to instruct hostages to lie down on the floor
immediately
