How did six Taliban hold off 100 security forces for 16 hours?

The small group of militants, as few as six, who attacked the PNS Mehran Rosetta Stone Language 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."It was a single shot in the darkness which took his arm off," the official said. "You can imagine how good they were."The commando died on the spot.It was about 10.30 p.m. when he died, and the violence didn't end until 16 hours later on Monday afternoon.The al Qaeda-inspired militants bent on avenging Osama bin Laden's death at the hands of U.S. special forces on May 2 killed 10 Pakistani troops and wounded 20.It took about 100 commandos, rangers and marines to kill four militants and recapture the base, further humiliating the military. Two militants are believed to have escaped.In just three weeks, the military has been accused of incompetence in failing to stop the U.S. raid that killed bin Laden and complicity in hiding him.The attack calls into question the military's ability to secure the country's borders and nuclear weapons.QUESTIONS, QUESTIONSHow did the militants get into one the country's most heavily guarded bases and hold off commandos and soldiers for so long?Some security officials said it must have been an Rosetta Stone language software inside job because of the obstacles to entering. The attackers probably travelled along a dirt lane running beside cinder block shacks at the rear of the base.In order to get in, they had to cross a long, thick sewage path, elude guards in towers, set up a ladder, scale a 12-foot wall, and cut through barbed wire.The security official said the assailants were dressed in black with night-vision goggles and armed with Russian hand grenades, rocket launchers, assault rifles and suicide vests.They fired rocket-propelled grenades at aircraft and fuel tanks, sending huge flames into the sky.Within a short time, a rapid reaction force from the base tried to engage the raiders, but they retreated to a main building at the sprawling base where they would hole up for the rest of the siege.Who were these militants?The security official said the militants looked foreign, with fair complexions, perhaps Chechens or Uzbeks. Foreign militants tied to al Qaeda's international network are known to train in Pakistan's unruly tribal areas along the Afghan border. Many of them are allied with the Rosetta Stone Spanish Latin Pakistani Taliban.PROTECTING THEIR ASSETSBy 2.30 a.m. on Monday, the initial fighting had ebbed.

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