MUMBAI TERROR ATTACKS
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Mumbai trauma ends, leaves behind an outraged nation
Published on Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 07:43, Updated on Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 08:14 in India section
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Mumbai: After 60 hours of non-stop terror, India's financial capital was Saturday left to pick up the pieces from a terror siege that killed at least 183 people, leaving behind an outraged nation and a bewildered establishment trying to unravel the conspiracy behind the longest running hostage crisis in the country.
The attack that began Wednesday night, when armed men got off boats at the tourist hub of Gateway of India and targeted 10 landmark locations, ended across the road at the heritage Taj Mahal Palace and Tower Hotel Thursday morning in a hail of bullets and blasts.
The three nights and three days in between saw 183 people being killed, including 20 policemen and 22 foreigners, 327 injured. The concern now is that the toll could rise further.
There were no negotiations and no demands at any point, indicating perhaps that the terrorists had planned to finish their brazen terror strike by blowing up the 105-year-old Taj, which brings together Moorish, Oriental and Florentine styles of architecture and is one of the most photographed buildings in this bustling city.
An official disclosed that they recovered two live bombs, eight weighing eight kilograms from the two dead terrorists, after the flushing out operations were over.
But the terrorists came to naught in their game plan of probably blowing up the building.
About 200 commandos drawn from the elite National Security Guard (NSG), the Indian Army, the Indian Navy and the Mumbai Police launched a calibrated attack to eliminate three terrorists who had taken over the 565-room hotel.
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do we have the guts to do what the israeli's did to the perpetrators of black sept (1972 munich massacre).
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It is very obvious more than the 10 terrorists are involved.Else how could you explain the explosions in the cabs
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this resignation thing is a big political gimmick...it should have been done long back...its hard to understand the surreal complexities
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Is it over... or are there still terrorist roaming around in Mumbai? There shud be a stern cleanup operation going
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They will kill us, but not our spirit
They may win with guns and swords
But you, my
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