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MEN OF GRIT: The National Security Guards defend Mumbai during the November attacks.

MEN OF GRIT: The National Security Guards defend Mumbai during the November attacks.

Revealed: what delayed NSG on night of 26/11

The National Security Guards, India's crack commando unit, could have reached Mumbai on the night of the terrorist attacks in November last year much sooner but it was delayed because of logistics and delay in decision making. NSG commandos were given a plane at the New Delhi airport on November 26 but the crew had to be called from their homes. "I think in operations of this nature time is of the essence," says J K Dutt, who was NSG chief in November last year. And time was lost.

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