Multiple locations in Mumbai attacked by terrorists:

“Forgiving Terrorist is left to GOD.. But fixing their appointment with GOD is our Responsibility”
-INDIAN ARMY

The 56-year-old was walking towards the Metro cinema when he felt his legs collapse – a bullet had been shot through his lower back. A hand then grasped his hair, pulled back his head and a blade slit his neck. He had been caught in the vortex of violence unleashed by people who wanted to murder, not just maim.
- In Mumbai Hospital, dying and mimed ask: why me?

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Chaos outside Taj hotel

Images:
Boston.com The Big Picture
Arun Shanbhag
Vinu’s Flickr Stream (CNN Interview)
One of the Terrorists
BBC
Newspaper Headlines
New York Times Timeline of Events

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The Times’s Heather Timmons and Hari Kumar have reported on Sunday that it took the commandos about 10 hours to begin their Mumbai operation. If the response had been quicker, said J. N. Rai, former intelligence officer and adviser to the home ministry, they could have “saved many more lives.”
Timeline Emerges Amid Security Changes in India

The Indian Muslim doesn’t need people killing in his name. He needs reform. The community is one of the most backwards communities in India, a large part of the blame for which it will have to shoulder itself. Partition had already crippled the community, giving the Indian Muslim the easy tag of a ‘foreigner’ in his very land of birth. Do you think the he now needs Pakistani terrorists to come in and create mayhem and anarchy in India?
Dear Mr. Terrorist

So what can we do about it? How can we include the youth by allowing them to express their emotions positively and make them feel like they’re making a difference or being heard. We often complain that the politics in India is outmoded, so how do we inject verve into our politics by making the youth feel like they have a duty to fulfill? After all, didn’t Gandhi say “Be the change you wish to see in the world?”
Rise Up India

News:
BBL Live Updates
Witness accounts of Mumbai attacks from sites around the Web
A report of how my friend Jacob escaped the terror attack at the Taj Hotel
India accused of bungling anti-terror operation

In the dusk hours of Wednesday, fisherman Chandrakant Tare was sailing his boat about 100 yards from a fishing trawler when he spotted young men killing a sailor on board. He says he saw them toss the body into the engine room. Assuming he had stumbled upon pirates, Mr. Tare says, he sped away.
India Security Faulted as Survivors Tell of Terror

Thinking back, he says, he is struck by the fact that it didn’t even cross his mind — or that of any of his staff — to make an escape without ensuring the safety of everyone in the dining hall. “It’s like our training took over,” he says, “It was only later, when I watched TV and saw people who had lost family… it was then that I realised the magnitude of what had happened.”
How a South African Security Man Saved 150 Lives

As gunmen and police engaged in a running three-day battle through the streets and hotels of Mumbai that left more than 100 dead Friday, social-networking services such as Twitter and Flickr were flooded with news, rumors and pictures of the mayhem.
Mumbai: Twitter’s Moment

One commando leader described how suspicions of a British link had been raised when investigators examined BlackBerry mobile phones seized from some of the captured Islamic extremists, which they had used to monitor the internet.

Are they British?

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

“Then I came back to my room, and thought I’d try to get onto the ledge outside the window. I made an escape rope with bedsheets, and to make it longer, tied up curtains as well. But those were too slippery. The rope had to be abandoned anyway when I realised the fire was just beneath me.
Trapped in Mumbai: A Survivor’s Tale

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