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...homegrown terrorists in India. (Major General R.K. Hooda, an army officer who was the commander for today's military operations, hinted that their accents might have been Pakistani.) So far, there have been little more than hints and platitudes from the steady stream of high-profile visitors to south Mumbai: the local strongman Raj Thackeray, Maharashtra state chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, Member of Parliament Milind Deora. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi are said to be on their way to the city, as is opposition BJP leader L.K. Advani. The question is, Will they do anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Taj: Tracking Down the Terrorists | 11/28/2008 | See Source »

...siege of Mumbai stretched through a third day, a military officer who was inside the Taj hotel provided graphic details to TIME of the confrontation within the historic and ornate structure. At 3:15 p.m. local time on Friday, a massive blast went off inside the hotel, loud enough to startle the hundreds of journalists gathered at the security cordon hundreds of yards behind the hotel. The officer who ran out of the Taj, carrying a pistol, said, "Now everything is burned. The stairs are burned. The woodwork is all spoiled." What did this blast mean? "They are getting desperate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Scene: "Sanitizing" Mumbai, Floor by Floor | 11/28/2008 | See Source »

...sure how many were in the building altogether, estimating between seven and 10. When asked whether they were trying to take any of them alive, he almost smiled at the question. "If they're alive, it's just coincidence." (See pictures of the days of terror in Mumbai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Scene: "Sanitizing" Mumbai, Floor by Floor | 11/28/2008 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trapped in Mumbai: A Survivor's Tale | 11/28/2008 | See Source »

...their hotel rooms - who were brought out safely from the hotel; 24 others were killed. Jacobs described his harrowing experience - at one point, he said he had composed goodbye messages to his family - in an exclusive interview with TIME. (See pictures here of the two days of terror in Mumbai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trapped in Mumbai: A Survivor's Tale | 11/28/2008 | See Source »

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