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...local news channel, India TV, to air their grievances: "When so many of us were killed, who did anything for us?" a man called Shadullah asked, referring to anti-Muslim riots in northern India in 1992 and '93. He said he was among seven people holding hostages at the Oberoi but didn't make any specific demands other than for the release of other mujahedin jailed in India and for an end to the persecution of Muslims. He did not reveal where the group comes from, though the Deccan in its name presumably refers to the plateau that stretches across...
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...
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...
David Jacobs, an Australian who works in New Delhi as head of India operations for the law firm Baker & McKenzie, was among those inside The Oberoi since Wednesday night. He was one of 148 people - hostages held by the terrorists or people trapped in 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...
Jacobs had come to Mumbai for a meeting with about 10 of his colleagues. They were all staying at the Oberoi but had gone elsewhere for dinner on Wednesday. Jacobs had just checked in, he remembers, when he heard a loud explosion. "I thought it sounded like a bomb," he says, "but I told myself it couldn't be - it was probably just construction work. Then I heard what sounded like gunfire, and I thought that really does sound like gunfire. So I went out into the atrium, and heard more explosions and gunfire. Part of my mind said...