For all that might be said to the contrary, the fact is security forces have more often than not failed to come clean as far as counter-insurgency operations in the Northeast are concerned. It is therefore not without reason the "success" of the much-hyped Operation Golden Bird has to be taken with a pinch of salt. In what has been described as the biggest anti-insurgency operation in the Northeast since the Army's deployment there in the 1950s, security forces claimed to have killed a motley...