<p> The Indian media could learn from the Boston bombing when the public and security agencies helped to close down the American city after the terror attack, a former RAW official said Saturday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Former special secretary of RAW Amber Sen was delivering a lecture at the International Centre, Goa.<br /><br />"The media were not good in Mumbai (26/11 terror strike). You do not give minute by minute coverage (of a terror attack) which is watched all over the world," said Sen.<br /><br />Sen has also served as the advisor to the National Security Council.<br /><br />The live coverage of the Mumbai terror attack in November 2008 reportedly enabled the Pakistan-based handlers of the terrorists to relay messages back to the foot soldiers about security movement and the presence of trapped survivors in the hotels under siege.<br /><br />Sen praised the manner in which Boston downed its shutters and people responded to <br />government directives to stay put at home, even as the police and security agencies hunted for one of the suspects.<br /><br />"If it had happened in Hyderabad, would everyone had stayed at home?" Sen asked?</p>
<p> The Indian media could learn from the Boston bombing when the public and security agencies helped to close down the American city after the terror attack, a former RAW official said Saturday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Former special secretary of RAW Amber Sen was delivering a lecture at the International Centre, Goa.<br /><br />"The media were not good in Mumbai (26/11 terror strike). You do not give minute by minute coverage (of a terror attack) which is watched all over the world," said Sen.<br /><br />Sen has also served as the advisor to the National Security Council.<br /><br />The live coverage of the Mumbai terror attack in November 2008 reportedly enabled the Pakistan-based handlers of the terrorists to relay messages back to the foot soldiers about security movement and the presence of trapped survivors in the hotels under siege.<br /><br />Sen praised the manner in which Boston downed its shutters and people responded to <br />government directives to stay put at home, even as the police and security agencies hunted for one of the suspects.<br /><br />"If it had happened in Hyderabad, would everyone had stayed at home?" Sen asked?</p>