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}
Friday, November 28, 2008
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)
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
'Mumbai attack shows new sophisticated face of terror'
NEW DELHI: The brazen attacks in Mumbai signal a sea-change in the Islamist militant violence that has beset India, showing sophisticated planning and an "anti-Western agenda,"analysts say.
Militants stormed a series of high-profile targets late Wednesday in India's financial capital, including the iconic Taj Mahal Palace hotel, a landmark restaurant, the main train station and a charitable hospital for women and children.
They killed more than 125 people and seized scores of hostages, targeting specifically Britons and Americans.
"The sheer scale and planning involved is markedly different from previous attacks, it's a watershed attack,"
Singapore-based security analyst Rohan Gunaratna, author of the book "Inside Al-Qaeda" said.
Previous assaults in India have involved planting bombs in public places such as busy markets or on trains as in 2006 when Islamist militants staged serial attacks on Mumbai's congested rail network, killing 186 people.
The attacks targeted civilians "with the intention to foment unrest between Hindu and Muslim communities," said Jane's Country Risk analyst Urmila Venugopalan.
India, an officially secular country of more than 1.1 billion people, is majority Hindu and has a population of 113 million Muslims.
But "the apparent focus on killing or capturing foreign businesspeople, specifically US and UK nationals, has never occurred (in India) before, suggesting a wider global anti-Western agenda," said Venugopalan.
The militants, whom Indian authorities said numbered about 25 and were armed with assault rifles and grenades, specifically sought out US and British citizens as hostages, according to witnesses.
The Israeli embassy in New Delhi also said 10 to 20 Israelis, possibly more, were among the hostages. They included a rabbi who was taken hostage when the militants seized a Jewish cultural centre in Mumbai.
A previously unknown group calling itself the Deccan Mujahedeen claimed responsibility for the attacks, triggering speculation they might be linked to the Indian Mujahedeen, which had sent emails claiming responsibility for four attacks it said it staged between November 2007 and September 2008.
But a senior Indian military official said late Thursday the young militants who strode into hotels with their faces bare came from Pakistan.
India frequently accuses Pakistan of sheltering guerrilla groups which have launched attacks against Indian targets despite Islamabad's strong denials.
Analysts said the tactics used in Mumbai appeared to be inspired by those of Al-Qaeda or groups linked to Al-Qaeda, such as the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba.
Lashkar, which was blamed for the 2001 attack on India's parliament that brought the nuclear-armed neighbours close to war, is fighting Indian rule in revolt-hit Indian Kashmir.
"Al-Qaeda has become a shorthand word to claim the cause of radical Islam, it's more of a brand than an integrated corporation," said Robert Ayers, a security expert at British international affairs think-tank Chatham House.
"It's going to take a while to determine who are responsible. But it has all the characteristics of an Al-Qaeda attack -- multiple strikes across multiple areas," Ayers said.
"The thing that makes it unique is the taking of hostages. But that has increased the publicity, they get international media exposure, taking hostages involves other nation states," he added.
"This was an extremely well-planned operation, the logistics, the timing. The operational planning was very, very professional," he said.
Businessman Ratan Tata, whose tea-to-steel Tata Group owns the Taj hotel, said the gunmen "seemed to know their way around" the building.
Amit Chanda, head of the Indian Subcontinent practice of Risk Advisory, also said it appeared the attacks were carried out with an anti-Western aim with the militants' "deliberate selection" of foreign hostages.
"This (attack) is a statement about India's relationship with the UK, the US and Israel," Chanda said. Israel is India's second-largest arms supplier.
"There has been a trend for countries that have suffered a major attack to describe it as their own 9/11, for example, the Spanish after the 2004 Madrid train bombings or the Pakistanis after the Marriott bombing in Islamabad," Chanda said.
"I think this attack, because of its audacity and brazenness, will be remembered as 'India's 9/11,'" he said.
Militants stormed a series of high-profile targets late Wednesday in India's financial capital, including the iconic Taj Mahal Palace hotel, a landmark restaurant, the main train station and a charitable hospital for women and children.
They killed more than 125 people and seized scores of hostages, targeting specifically Britons and Americans.
"The sheer scale and planning involved is markedly different from previous attacks, it's a watershed attack,"
Singapore-based security analyst Rohan Gunaratna, author of the book "Inside Al-Qaeda" said.
Previous assaults in India have involved planting bombs in public places such as busy markets or on trains as in 2006 when Islamist militants staged serial attacks on Mumbai's congested rail network, killing 186 people.
The attacks targeted civilians "with the intention to foment unrest between Hindu and Muslim communities," said Jane's Country Risk analyst Urmila Venugopalan.
India, an officially secular country of more than 1.1 billion people, is majority Hindu and has a population of 113 million Muslims.
But "the apparent focus on killing or capturing foreign businesspeople, specifically US and UK nationals, has never occurred (in India) before, suggesting a wider global anti-Western agenda," said Venugopalan.
The militants, whom Indian authorities said numbered about 25 and were armed with assault rifles and grenades, specifically sought out US and British citizens as hostages, according to witnesses.
The Israeli embassy in New Delhi also said 10 to 20 Israelis, possibly more, were among the hostages. They included a rabbi who was taken hostage when the militants seized a Jewish cultural centre in Mumbai.
A previously unknown group calling itself the Deccan Mujahedeen claimed responsibility for the attacks, triggering speculation they might be linked to the Indian Mujahedeen, which had sent emails claiming responsibility for four attacks it said it staged between November 2007 and September 2008.
But a senior Indian military official said late Thursday the young militants who strode into hotels with their faces bare came from Pakistan.
India frequently accuses Pakistan of sheltering guerrilla groups which have launched attacks against Indian targets despite Islamabad's strong denials.
Analysts said the tactics used in Mumbai appeared to be inspired by those of Al-Qaeda or groups linked to Al-Qaeda, such as the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba.
Lashkar, which was blamed for the 2001 attack on India's parliament that brought the nuclear-armed neighbours close to war, is fighting Indian rule in revolt-hit Indian Kashmir.
"Al-Qaeda has become a shorthand word to claim the cause of radical Islam, it's more of a brand than an integrated corporation," said Robert Ayers, a security expert at British international affairs think-tank Chatham House.
"It's going to take a while to determine who are responsible. But it has all the characteristics of an Al-Qaeda attack -- multiple strikes across multiple areas," Ayers said.
"The thing that makes it unique is the taking of hostages. But that has increased the publicity, they get international media exposure, taking hostages involves other nation states," he added.
"This was an extremely well-planned operation, the logistics, the timing. The operational planning was very, very professional," he said.
Businessman Ratan Tata, whose tea-to-steel Tata Group owns the Taj hotel, said the gunmen "seemed to know their way around" the building.
Amit Chanda, head of the Indian Subcontinent practice of Risk Advisory, also said it appeared the attacks were carried out with an anti-Western aim with the militants' "deliberate selection" of foreign hostages.
"This (attack) is a statement about India's relationship with the UK, the US and Israel," Chanda said. Israel is India's second-largest arms supplier.
"There has been a trend for countries that have suffered a major attack to describe it as their own 9/11, for example, the Spanish after the 2004 Madrid train bombings or the Pakistanis after the Marriott bombing in Islamabad," Chanda said.
"I think this attack, because of its audacity and brazenness, will be remembered as 'India's 9/11,'" he said.
2001 Indian Parliament attack
On December 13, 2001, five gunmen infiltrated the Parliament House in a car with Home Ministry and Parliament labels. [2] While both the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha had been adjourned forty minutes prior to the incident, many Members of Parliament (MPs) and government officials such as Home Minister LK Advani and Minister of State (Defence) Harin Pathak were believed to have still been in the building at the time of the attack.[1] (Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Opposition Leader Sonia Gandhi had already left). The gunmen slammed their vehicle into the car of the Indian Vice President Krishan Kant (who was in the building at the time), got out, and began firing their weapons. The Vice President's guards and security personnel shot back at the terrorists and then started closing the gates of the compound. The lady constable Kamlesh Kumari was first to spot the terrorist squad. One gunman, wearing a suicide vest, was shot dead, the vest exploding. The other four gunmen were also killed. Five policemen, a Parliament security guard, and a gardener were killed, and 18 others were injured. [3] No members of the government were hurt.
2001 Indian Parliament attack
ATTACK BY PAKISTAN-BASED TERRORISTS
ON PARLIAMENT HOUSE ON 13.12.2001
Chronological sequence of events
(Note: Timings are approximate and only main events are given in rough sequence)
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| Terrorists enter Parliament House at about 11:40 AM in a white car |
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| Terrorists drive towards Building Gate no.11 (Rajya Sabha entrance). |
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| Shri J.P. Yadav, Security Assistant, Rajya Sabha tries to stop the incoming vehicle. Hit by |
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| Terrorists’ car hits the parked cavalcade of Vice President of India and is challenged by security staff Terrorists open fire on security staff at Building Gate no.11 at about 11.42 AM Shri Matbar Singh Negi, Security Assistant, Rajya Sabha is hit by a terrorist bullet outside Building Gate 11 as he tries to stop the terrorists. Despite being hit, he manages to close Gate no.11 and raises the alarm, leading to all Gates being closed. He later succumbs to his injuries |
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| Terrorists gun down 6 other police personnel and one civilian and run towards Gate no.1, firing their weapons |
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| One terrorist shot by CRPF armed police at Building Gate no.1. Explosives on his body explode. |
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| Remaining four terrorists run back and move towards Building Gate no.9 firing indiscriminately. |
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| Three of the terrorists are killed by CRPF police outside Building Gate no.9 |
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| The fifth terrorist is killed in encounter outside Building Gate no.5 |
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