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...made the first of several trips to India in September 2006, using the cover of working for an immigration agency. But according to investigators, he actually spent his time in Mumbai "taking pictures and making videotapes of various targets," including those that would eventually be attacked - the Taj and Oberoi hotels, Leopold Café, Nariman House and the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, the city's main railway hub. (See a story about Pakistani jihadis going global...
...lakes - which earned Udaipur the nickname the "Venice of the East" - have been a major tourist magnet in the past few years, and building places for tourists to sleep has accelerated the problem. With the Oberoi Udaivilas luxury hotel opening in 2000 and the Leela Palace, which opened in April, both just a few feet from the lake, the doors have opened for other shoreline hotel and residential development. "The big guys essentially bought their way past standing lakeshore-encroachment laws," says Razdan. "That created a domino effect. Smaller entrepreneurs with money muscle and political connections asked...
...Italian coffee and a breakfast panini at Grocer & Grind delicatessen, tel: (62-361) 730 418. Once you're awake, peruse the grocery aisle for locally made artisanal palm sugars, sea salt and coffee to take home as gifts and souvenirs. Or you can step around the corner to Jalan Oberoi and go gift-hunting in its fashion boutiques and design shops. Next, hop in a taxi and head west about 20 minutes to Echo Beach, a popular surf spot. Work up an appetite for lunch by putting the previous day's surfing lesson into practice. A trio of beach shacks...
Qasab seems to have thought little about who his victims would be; there was no singling out of foreigners as at the Taj and Oberoi. "We went inside the railway station threatening the commuters and randomly firing at them," he says in his statement. Qasab and Khan left after less than an hour, using the footbridge made famous by Slumdog Millionaire - the perch from which, in the film, Jamal looks for Latika. Qasab's only instructions were to find a building with a rooftop where they could take hostages and attract the media. They headed west out of the station...
...other gunmen had begun the siege of Mumbai, terrorizing the occupants of the Taj, the Oberoi and Nariman House. Qasab and Khan drove almost aimlessly through the streets. They ditched the police car, which had a flat tire, and took a white Skoda, ejecting three women without hurting them. Veering toward the sea, they bypassed the Oberoi on Marine Drive before being stopped by a barricade the police had set up ahead of them at the Girgaon Chaupati intersection...