Rising

Time To Wake Up!!!!!!!!!

The mumbai massacre has struck us all deep inside.
Dirty pollitics going on in d country since quite a time was shoked by the massive attack in suthern mumbai.

While Our polliticians were busy blaming hindu relegious leaders for the relegious vote bank, the pakistani terrorists struck again and this time with more power and determination.

It took more than 2 days to get those freaks out of here but for no use.

The death toll recorded more than 150 and injuring more than 300 people.

Rounds fired on the roads, grenade explosions and wat not.

We gotta do sumthing bout it.

This thing is goin outta hands, if its not taken care now its not gonna beoutta our hands.

{plz gimme sum comments so dat we cud figure ut a way to deal wid di}

WAR ON MUMBAI

Mumbai terrorised

26/11/2008 will go down as one of the darkest days in the history of Mumbai and India. Life in the country's financial capital remains paralysed as terrorists hold the city under siege. In a heinous terror attack that the country has seen in recent times, Mumbai came under an unprecedented night attack.

Taj under siege

Terrorists equipped with heavy machine guns, including AK-47s and grenades to strike at the city's most high-profile targets- the Chhattrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) rail terminus; the landmark Taj Hotel at the Gateway and the luxury Oberoi Trident at Nariman Point; killing at least 101 and sending hundreds of injured to hospital.

In the line of duty

The attacks have also taken a tragic toll on the city's top police brass: The high-profile chief of the Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) Hemant Karkare was killed;

Raging fire

By midnight, the city was shaken. Mobile networks got jammed as anxious relatives made frantic calls, SMSes. The police were asking people not to venture out and stay home. The Army and the NSG had been called out to lend a helping hand to Mumbai Police. By Thursday morning, the Navy had also been sounded out. For Mumbai and the rest of India, the nightmare had just begun as the Army, Navy and the police trooped in to rescue the hostages

Chaos at Café Leopold

It was a regular Wednesday evening for this popular watering hole in Colaba in south Mumbai which is frequented by a lot of foreign tourists. At 2130 hrs IST, three gunmen opened fire at the guests inside Café Leopold.

List of hostages rescued from Oberoi Trident

New Delhi: The National Security Guard (NSG) and the Marine Commandos on Friday rescued 40 guests from The Oberoi Trident, 36 hours after they were taken hostage by terrorists believed to be affiliated to Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT).

List of hostages rescued from Oberoi Trident:

NAME	NATIONALITY
WATT WILSON	UK
ARNOLD SBARRETTI	ITALY
ANWAR ATTARWALA	INDIA
MOHAMMAD ATTARWALA	INDIA
BEN ALI	KUWAIT
WADAHATI ALMESHAR	KUWAIT
TAIBA ALMESHAR	KUWAIT
DOWSON OLIVER FRANCIS	UK
YUSUF AMIR YUSUF	IRAQ
YOGESH SHAH	USA
NANKI VELL GAY	CANADA
MRS. BROY JENNIFER DEAN	CANADA
NI KADEK EDI DARMAYANTI	BALI
IQST AYO COTO SRE	BALI
ANAK AGANG KOMANG	BALI
SUDIPTO SARKAR	INDIA
JOYDEEP SENGUPTA	INDIA
EMANUEL LATTARZI	ITALY
CHANAY YAEMIN	THAILAND
WALSH NANCY ELIEEN	USA
YUANG YONG ZHONG	CHINA
NODA PETSU	JAPAN
AERRY DAVID EDWIN	USA
MANISH SHAKIR TUMA	IRAQ
CHEN LING	CHINA
LAMING WONG	CHINA
KASSANDRA PINTO	INDIA
NYOMAN SRI ARINI	INDONESIA

Six Oberoi Hotel hostages killed, 100 rescued: NSG

New Delhi: The National Security Guard (NSG) and the Marine Commandos early on Friday rescued 100 guests from The Trident Hotel (formerly known as Oberoi), 36 hours after they were taken hostage by terrorists believed to be affiliated to Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT).

Terrorists had conducted thorough reconnaissance preparations over the last two months. They had knowledge of each and every exit point of the hotels, NSG sources told CNN-IBN.

A heavy exchange of fire between the security personnel and the terrorists was reported soon after the rescue. One terrorist was reportedly killed in the crossfire.

An NSG official said at least six hostages were feared dead.

“Terrorists don’t want to listen to anything. They are not ready to surrender. They are threatening to kill all the hostages,” he said.

Addressing the media outside the Oberoi Hotel, Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said, "Commandos have done a good job. The rescue peration at Oberoi Hotel is likely to be over

in one hour. Our NSG team and police carried out the operation without the aid of any foreign agency."

Reacting to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's comments, Dehmukh said, "Nobody should try and gain political mileage."

"It is not an attack on Mumbai but the whole nation," he added.

The rescued hostages, many of who are foreign nationals, were swiftly escorted to a private bus, as anxious relatives and family members present outside the hotel heaved a sigh of relief.

“I was on the twentieth floor of the hotel. I could see smoke and hear gun shots,” Sudipto Sarkar, a hostage rescued from Oberoi Trident, said. “We could not communicate with anybody. All the TVs were switched off.”

A spokesperson for Italian Embassy told CNN-IBN, "All our people, whom we are aware of, have been rescued.So far a total of six italians have been rescued from Trident (Oberoi), including one baby. The baby's father went out and then went back in to get his daughter and wife."

"All European countries are coordinating efforts under the leadership of France. Many European citizens have lost their important documents such as passports. Efforts are being made to get them out of the country as soon as possible. Some of them have already left," he added.

Police had to resort to lathi charge to bring the crowd of curious onlookers under control.

The National Security Guard and the Marine Commandos are into the final assault against terrorists at the Oberoi hotel. The assault team has sanitised parts of the Oberoi Trident.

Another NSG official informed CNN-IBN that room intervention operation was underway at the Oberoi, where two more floors are yet to be sanitised.

“A room intervention drill entry is made in every room, following which we check each and every thing without any collateral damage. It takes about four to five minutes,” he explained.

"Final assault is yet to happen," he added.

Meanwhile, Army sources claim that the terrorists were provided commando training by Pakistan Army. They also suggested that the terrorists were provided boats and other logistical support by the Mumbai underworld.

Late comers? What took Government so long to react

Date: November 27, 2008


Time: 7 am


Location: Outside the imposing Taj Mahal hotel in Colaba.


New Delhi: Crack commandos of the elite National Security Guards waited to storm the hotel in their bid to rescue dozens of hostages from terrorists holed up inside.


The Mumbai police had only just finished the first pre-operation briefing of the commandos on the layout of the hotel and its occupants.


It was more than nine hours after the hostage drama first began in India's financial Capital, a time lag which has now left security and counter-terrorism experts aghast.


Former director general, National Security Guards, Ved Marwah says, “Normally, the NSG is ready to scramble in minutes. There seems to have been a delay in granting the go ahead”.


The handling of the Mumbai hostage crisis now suggests two disturbing outcomes. While experts agree there was an inordinate delay by the government in ordering commandos to the crisis spot, a near amateurish method seemed to have been used in scrambling them.


It was a mistake committed once earlier in 1999 while trying to block the path of Indian Airlines IC-814, when it took off for Kandahar.


Sources told CNN IBN:


- The go-ahead for airlifting commandos came well past midnight

- It took over three hours for them to scramble and take off for Mumbai

- Commandos were brought to the encounter spots in BEST buses

- The commandos had no precise maps detailing hotel layout and access points

- All this, while the Mumbai police struggled to figure out the unprecedented situation


“This decision – of whether the NSG should be called in – is of state government’s. They should go by what they feel is the ground situation,” says former supercop KPS Gill.


The NSG, marine commandos and the army special forces units are the only ones equipped to deal with hostage rescue.


Sources tell CNN-IBN that it took the killing of its chief Hemant Karkare for the Maharashtra ATS to realise it had underestimated the terror threat.


It therefore decided to bring in the NSG. An early morning coordination meeting decided that the navy commandos also be brought in.


Anti-terror and commando units are now grappling with a new scenario: unprecedented hostage situations in high profile enclosed buildings never encountered in metropolitan India.

Why the Taj Hotel was chosen

Flames leap from the Taj Hotel hotel in Mumbai. (Photo: AP)

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

First Published : 27 Nov 2008 11:41:00 AM IST

Last Updated : 27 Nov 2008 12:02:54 PM IST

MUMBAI: By choosing to attack Bombay's most opulent and iconic hotel, the Islamist terrorists have sent a powerful message to India's leaders, foreign investors and tourists as well as the country's new economic elite. With the possible exception of the "floating" Lake Palace Hotel in Udaipur which was made famous by the James Bond film Octopussy, the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower Hotel in Bombay is India's best-known and best-loved hotel. For any serious foreign investor, businessman or wealthy tourist visiting India's commercial capital, "The Taj", as it is universally known by the cognoscenti, is always the first choice. With best rooms in the superior old wing costing more than £250 per night - more than 250 millions Indians can expect to earn in a year - the hotel offers a world of secluded luxury, away from the grinding poverty and infrastructural decay of Mumbai. Legend has it that its creator, a Parsi industrialist called Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, commissioned the building after being refused entry to the now-defunct Apollo Hotel, which had a strict Europeans-only policy. However with its colonnades of shops stuffed with the world's most expensive brands, what Bombay's rich set consider the ultimate in cosmopolitan luxury, would equally be perceived by Islamist ideologues as a symbol of Western decadence. Over the years guests have included The Queen, the former Egyptian president Gamal Abdul Nasser and the Beatle John Lennon, to name but a few of the notable personalities to have checked in to the magnificent old wing. More recently the hotel hosted the guests for Bombay leg of Liz Hurley's two-week extravaganza of a wedding, with guests dashing straight from the front door to waiting motor launches to take them to the privacy of waiting super-yachts in the harbour beyond. To have pictures of burning Taj Hotel broadcast around the world will have a deeper impact than even perhaps the terrorists intended, striking a blow against a symbol of Indian wealth and progress and sending shivers down the spine of some of the richest and most powerful people on the planet