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Saving the innocent

Sir, — I seek to clear M.S. Hasan's puzzle in his letter `Catch them alive' (Oct. 1): It is seldom that terrorists the world over are caught alive as they function as suicide squads prepared to die any time for their cause. In the larger mosaic of decent and docile society, terrorists who are very negligible in number are like deadly snakes that should be killed at sight lest they will kill many more innocent people in their desperate attempt to escape.

Terrorists numbering just two who struck at the Swaminarayan temple in Gujarat were killed not because they could not be caught alive but to spare some more innocent people from being killed. So is the case with Iman Ali and his accomplices in Bangalore who were hiding in a house well equipped with deadly weapons. For every terrorist, the innocent people surrounding him act as a shield as more attention is paid to saving their lives.

V.E. Venkataramani,
Chennai

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