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...explosions were all part of a process that the Indian authorities call "sanitizing" the floors - basically blasting them out to make sure there are no terrorists left. It's difficult to do in a hotel as large as the Taj. There have been injuries among the commandos. At 5:48 p.m., I saw first aid personnel rushing into the hotel. The blasts are doing further damage to the building - there was new smoke coming from the dome on the roof, and for a while, a new active fire burning in one of the second level rooms. The fires were still...
...Indian security forces began storming the Oberoi hotel in Mumbai, the first of the three hostage sites to be cleared, at around 11:30 a.m. local time on Friday. Within half an hour, the first batch of released hostages were emerging. By 2:30 p.m., it was over. Two terrorists were killed, and security forces began combing the hotel looking for people trapped during the fighting...
Throughout Israel, shopkeepers and office-goers on Friday kept their radios and televisions tuned to the unfolding terrorist tragedy in Mumbai. They listened raptly to accounts of Indian commandos snaking down from helicopters onto the roof of the Chabad Jewish guesthouse in Mumbai, where inside two terrorists were holding at least six people hostage...
...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 to pray in a synagogue, eat kosher meals, celebrate the Sabbath and keep...
...after terrorists struck Mumbai on Wednesday, Israeil Defense Minister Ehud Barak offered to send help to India. "The attacks are part of a global wave of terror, which Israel is quite familiar with," Barak said. But India declined the assistance. Some Israeli officials voiced criticism over the way that Indian forces immediately began firing at the gunmen, rather than gathering intelligence on their adversary, or attempting to enter into negotiations with them first. Meanwhile, in India, rumors circulated that the Israelis had indeed been part of the rescue operation, a notion that may have been kick-started by the combination...