Pakistan Naval Base Attack: How did six Taliban hold off 100 security forces for 16 hours?

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By Faisal Aziz / KARACHI | Tue May 24, 2011 9:18am EDT

(Reuters) - A Pakistani Navy commando was the first to detect Taliban militants attacking a naval aviation base in the city of Karachi on Sunday night. He was dead within seconds.

The small group of militants, as few as six, who attacked the PNS Mehran naval aviation base in Karachi gave its defenders no time.

"You cannot imagine how quick they were," said a Pakistani security official who asked not to be named. "When they entered, one of the Navy commandos saw them and tried to react."

He never got the chance.

This reminds me of Michael Corleone's comment on Fidel Castro's communist rebel fighter suicide with a hand-grenade taking with his several security personnel, "Unlike those Security Personnel, they are not paid but still were willing to lay their lives, which means they are going to overthrow Batista" (Godfather-II).  This is chilling to note, are Pakistani Taliban are finally going to take over Pakistan?

Full story at,

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/24/us-pakistan-attack-timeline-idUSTRE74N38820110524