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29.11.2008
Mumbai 11/29 News

Indian commandos retook the Taj Mahal hotel, ending the three-day terrorist siege.

The death toll is now at 195, including at least 6 Americans.

Local police claim that only 10 terrorists entered the city to carry out the attacks.

Hotel officials deny earlier reports that the Westerners were singled out and targeted.

Pakistan's foreign minister cut short his four-day visit to the country.

Some U.S. intelligence officials say there's increasing evidence that Pakistani-based Lashkar-e-Taiba was responsible.

Obama called India's Prime Minister yesterday.

Hillary Clinton issued a statement on the attacks, reflecting on the deaths of the Jewish couple from the Chabad community in Crown Heights.

Time examines the roots of Muslim rage in India.

An Indian-American writer explains "what they hate about Mumbai."

Anne Applebaum warns us not to forget the lessons of 9/11.

--Suzy Khimm

Posted: Saturday, November 29, 2008 5:37 PM with 5 comment(s)

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ndmackenzie said:

Lost among the news from Mumbai is the following solitary report on BBC News today.

-- Hundreds of people are reported to have been killed in central Nigeria after Christians and Muslims clashed over the result of a local election.

-- A Muslim charity in the town of Jos says it collected more than 300 bodies, and fatalities are also expected among Christians.

news.bbc.co.uk/.../7756695.stm

November 29, 2008 6:46 PM

jacksondyer said:

Leave to the Islamicist Mackenzie to blame it all on NIgerian Christian.

Like the Muslim brotherhood he can't seem to accept the evil that his friends and associates commit.

Here is a Muslim Brotherhood website blaming the attacks in Mumbai on "the Zioinst" Rabbi and his wife.

islamic-intelligence.blogspot.com/.../mumbai-ubnder-zionist-attack-head-of.html

There is something pathological in not being able to accept your own deeds.

November 29, 2008 8:11 PM

AaronBBrown said:

Terrorists at Chabad House 'deliberately targeted' Jews

www.jpost.com/.../Satellite

[Speaking from the Israeli Consulate in Mumbai, Foreign Ministry official Haim Hoshen told the Post on Saturday that there was no doubt the Chabad House was the target of a premeditated and planned assault.

Hoshen was staying at the nearby Oberoi Hotel when the building came under attack, and described hearing a number of powerful explosions go off around him as he attended a reception.]

[Reports suggest that two or three gunmen were involved in the Chabad House attack.

On Friday, the Israeli Consulate confirmed that four Israelis were among the group of hostages rescued by Indian special forces from the Oberoi hotel on Friday.

Two of the freed Israelis, businessmen Yossi Veingratten and Ephraim Zamir, touched down at Ben-Gurion Airport on Saturday night. The two described their dramatic rescue by Indian security forces, before Zamir broke down in tears as he recounted the ordeal.

Both said they had been advised to barricade themselves in their rooms as gunfire and explosions raged across the hotel.

Veingratten said he had plenty to eat because he had brought kosher food with him.

Zamir marveled with relief that "all those gunman" couldn't get "one little Iraqi Jew." ]

[A sixth victim is a Mexican Jewish woman. Israeli officials are waiting for DNA tests on some of the bodies to be completed.]

[The Foreign Ministry said four Israelis in Mumbai remained unaccounted for. The names of the missing Israelis were compiled from reports by worried family members in Israel, who say their loved ones have failed to made contact since the terrorist outrages on Mumbai began last Wednesday.]

November 30, 2008 2:01 AM

AaronBBrown said:

Mumbai photographer: I wish I'd had a gun, not a camera. Armed police would not fire back

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/.../article14086308.ece

[Sebastian D'Souza, a picture editor at the Mumbai Mirror, whose offices are just opposite the city's Chhatrapati Shivaji station, heard the gunfire erupt and ran towards the terminus. "I ran into the first carriage of one of the trains on the platform to try and get a shot but couldn't get a good angle, so I moved to the second carriage and waited for the gunmen to walk by," he said. "They were shooting from waist height and fired at anything that moved. I briefly had time to take a couple of frames using a telephoto lens. I think they saw me taking photographs but theydidn't seem to care."

The gunmen were terrifyingly professional, making sure at least one of them was able to fire their rifle while the other reloaded. By the time he managed to capture the killer on camera, Mr D'Souza had already seen two gunmen calmly stroll across the station concourse shooting both civilians and policemen, many of whom, he said, were armed but did not fire back. "I first saw the gunmen outside the station," Mr D'Souza said. "With their rucksacks and Western clothes they looked like backpackers, not terrorists, but they were very heavily armed and clearly knew how to use their rifles.

"Towards the station entrance, there are a number of bookshops and one of the bookstore owners was trying to close his shop," he recalled. "The gunmen opened fire and the shopkeeper fell down."

But what angered Mr D'Souza almost as much were the masses of armed police hiding in the area who simply refused to shoot back. "There were armed policemen hiding all around the station but none of them did anything," he said. "At one point, I ran up to them and told them to use their weapons. I said, 'Shoot them, they're sitting ducks!' but they just didn't shoot back." ]

November 30, 2008 2:15 AM

AaronBBrown said:

Doctors shocked at hostages's torture

www.rediff.com/.../30mumterror-doctors-shocked-at-hostagess-torture.htm

[Asked specifically if he was talking of torture marks, he said: "It was apparent that most of the dead were tortured. What shocked me were the telltale signs showing clearly how the hostages were executed in cold blood," one doctor said.

The other doctor, who had also conducted the post-mortem of the victims, said: "Of all the bodies, the Israeli victims bore the maximum torture marks. It was clear that they were killed on the 26th itself. It was obvious that they were tied up and tortured before they were killed. It was so bad that I do not want to go over the details even in my head again," he said.]

November 30, 2008 5:49 PM