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...clock to urge them to fight a coup. "If a coup is staged, Thaksin will fight against it along side with Thais. He can make phone calls to us 24 hours a day," Natthawut said. Thaksin was ousted in a bloodless coup in 2006, but later returned to Thailand earlier this year after elections were held...
Meanwhile, at Nariman house, a crowd had been waiting all day for the operation there to be finished. As of 8:45 p.m. (9:45 a.m. Eastern time in the U.S.), it was still going on. Earlier in the evening, the police, who had been pushing the crowd away, started beating them back with bamboo sticks. Crowd control is rudimentary at best. The police and army have stationed vehicles to block foot traffic from the roads; cars are blocked much further down the main road. There are rough ropes strung up by the lackeys of the local political bosses...
...Earlier this evening, the authorities announced that the operation at Nariman House was finished, and that there were no hostages alive. But then a short while later, they said it was not completely finished. I watched from the terrace of a nearby building as the commandos blasted each floor one by one, walked through with flashlights, and then gathered on the roof...
Amidst all this, there is very little official information on the events of the last couple of days. There have been no briefings by the Army or police since the announcement of the end of the Oberoi Hotel encounter earlier this afternoon. And so in the vacuum, there are rumors. The involvement of the Nariman House and the ostensibly Israeli hostages within churned up unconcfirmed speculation about Israeli commandos taking part in the operation. This afternoon, there was a rumor reported by at least one of the local television stations that there were new attacks - blasts at four locations...
...commandos fought their way from adjacent structures onto the roof of the five-story guesthouse and then into the building itself. It was later confirmed that the Chabad center director, a young New York Rabbi, Gavriel Holtzberg, and his Israeli wife, Rivka, were among the five hostages found dead. Earlier, the couple's two-year-old son, Moshe, was rescued by an Indian maid who fled the building clutching the toddler. There are Chabad Houses around the world. Set up by the Chabad Lubavitchers, a Brooklyn-based movement of Orthodox, Hasidic Jews, the centers provide Jewish travelers with a place...