Multiple attacks in Mumbai, 80 dead and hostages taken
REUTERS
26-Nov-2008 (2 comments)

MUMBAI (Reuters) – At least 80 people were killed in attacks apparently aimed at tourists in India's financial capital Mumbai, and television channels said Westerners were being held hostage on Thursday at two five-star hotels.

Troops began moving into one of the hotels, the Oberoi, local television said. Explosions were heard there and at the Taj Mahal hotel, where tourists were also said to have been taken hostage, CNN/IBN television reported.

Police said at least 250 people were wounded in the series of Mumbai attacks which, apart from the hotels, targeted hospitals and railway stations as well as the Cafe Leopold, perhaps the most famous restaurant and hang-out for tourists in the city.

An organization calling itself the Deccan Mujahideen claimed it was behind attacks, television channels said. The previously little known group sent an email to news organizations claiming responsibility.

"I guess they were after foreigners, because they were asking for British or American passports," said Rakesh Patel, a British witness who lives in Hong Kong and was staying at the Taj Mahal hotel on business. "They had bombs."

"They came from the restaurant and took us up the stairs," he told the >>>

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Anonym7, you're the one

by Farhad Kashani on Thu Nov 27, 2008 08:21 PM PST

Anonym7, you're the one with the IRI supporting, leftist lovin, U.S and Iran hating extreme communist ideology.

You people are responsible for the destruction of Iran with your nonsense support of leftism and your apologies for the horrific crimes committed by the Islamists. The whole world, specially the Iranians, know that it was Khomeini and your beloved IRI regime that started, inspired and feeds the culture of death and the culture of using violence in the name of Islam as a mean to intimidate others and bring down civilization as we know it. They set up the precedent, and all other Islamists, including Taliban, Al Qaeda and others, followed them. Khomeini was the godafther of Islamist movement and his legacy and ideas are the main center for the inspiratin for today's savage Islamists, that you apparently are in love with.


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U.S legacy of U.S/Afghan Soviet war

by Anonym7 (not verified) on Thu Nov 27, 2008 06:12 AM PST

Kashani, it appears you know no boundary with your Israeli type ultra right wing extremism. Islamic extremism owes its existence to the unlimited moral and military support it received from U.S and its allies during Afghan Soviet war. Americans themselves readily admit that. STOP your baseless VICIOUS attacks and claims, YOU can NOT rewrite history as you have been told many times.


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