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Mumbai hostage rescue raids continue | International | Jerusalem Post
jpost.com - 11/27/2008
Mumbai hostage rescue raids continue | International | Jerusalem Post
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Black-clad Indian commandos raided two luxury hotels to try to free hostages Thursday, while explosions and gunshots shook India's financial capital a day after attacks by suspected Muslim terrorists killed at least 119 people. About 10 to 12 gunmen remain holed up inside the hotels and the ...
'10-15 Israelis held in Chabad House and Mumbai hotel' | International | Jerusalem Post
jpost.com - 11/27/2008
'10-15 Israelis held in Chabad House and Mumbai hotel' | International | Jerusalem Post
— jpost.com — Indian commandos and police were evacuating civilians and cordoning off the area apparently in preparation to storm... the Chabad House in Mumbai, India, where a rabbi, his wife and several other Israelis were being held hostage, according to IBN, an ... (more) '10-15 Israelis held in Chabad House and Mumbai hotel' | ...

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Mumbai attacks: Jews tortured before being executed during hostage crisis
telegraph.co.uk - 12/1/2008
Mumbai attacks: Jews tortured before being executed during hostage crisis
— telegraph.co.uk — Israeli hostages killed by Islamic terrorists during the attacks on Mumbai formerly Bombay were tortured by their... captors before they were bound together and killed according to officials in both countries. (more) Mumbai attacks: Jews tortured before being executed ...

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Indian troops raid hotels to free hostages - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com - 11/27/2008
Indian troops raid hotels to free hostages - Yahoo! News
— news.yahoo.com — MUMBAI, India Black-clad Indian commandoes raided two luxury hotels to try to free hostages Thursday, and explosions... and gunshots shook India's financial capital a day after suspected Muslim militants killed 110 people. A top Indian general says ... (more) Indian troops raid hotels to free hostages - Yahoo! News

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Israel Matzav:  Terrorists urge India to 'return stolen Muslim lands'

Jihad Watch:  Mumbai jihadists: "We urge the Indian government to return stolen Muslim lands"

Little Green Footballs:  Mumbai Terrorism Updates

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Terrorists urge India to 'return stolen Muslim lands'
Israel Matzav — Terrorists urge India to 'return stolen Muslim lands' You just knew this was coming. The terrorists barricaded in several locations in Mumbai holding travelers and locals as hostages issued a first statement since they carried out a coordinated attack on Wednesday evening that killed at least 110 people, Sky News reported. "We urge the Indian government to return stolen Muslim lands," the terrorists said in their statement. 'Stolen Muslim lands?' By whom and from which Muslims? Does anyone still think this is going to stop if we create a 'Palestinian' state reichlet ? Is there anyone left who doesn't understand that this is about Islam and not about land? posted by Carl ...

Mumbai jihadists: "We urge the Indian government to return stolen Muslim lands"
Jihad Watch — Any land that once belonged to the Dar al-Islam belongs to it by right forever, at least as far as Islamic jihadists are concerned, and so this strange demand is not all that surprising. "Mumbai hostage rescue raids continue," from AP, November 26 (thanks to Israel Matzav): [...] The terrorists issued a first statement saying, "We urge the Indian government to return stolen Muslim lands," Sky News reported. An Indian media report said a previously unknown group calling itself the Deccan Mujahideen claimed responsibility for ...

Fitzgerald: The Mumbai jihadist link to Al-Qaeda, and why it misses the point
Jihad Watch — ... “Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism specialist with the Swedish National Defense College, said there are ‘very strong suspicions’ that the coordinated Mumbai attacks have a link to al-Qaida....” -- from this news article ...

Mumbai Terrorism Updates
Little Green Footballs — The terrorist attack in Mumbai is finally over. Indian commandos killed the last remaining gunmen holed up at a luxury Mumbai hotel Saturday, ending a 60-hour rampage that killed 195 people in India’s financial capital, as authorities shifted their focus to who was behind the attacks. A previously unknown Muslim group claimed responsibility for the attack, which killed 18 foreigners including six Americans. Indian officials said the sole surviving gunman was from Pakistan and pointed a finger of blame at their neighbor. Islamabad denied involvement and promised to help in the investigation. A team of FBI agents was on its way to India to lend ...

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tbogg.firedoglake.com 12/2/2008 — Since returning from the NRO Cruise , K-Lo and the usual gang of nitwits have been rattling the tin cup for alms for the brain bereft. As we can see from last Thursday until today , things have not gone swimmingly. It is possible that after ...
Mumbai: Indian Army,Cops Prevent Foreigners’ Massacre — The Moderate Voice
New Delhi: Reports are now coming in from terror-struck Mumbai (or Bombay) of the valiant rescue effort of the Indian army and the police thus saving the lives of scores of foreigners held hostage during the past 24 hours. Top police officials led from the front and at least three ...
Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/27/2008 — Gates of Vienna
The most important news of the day obviously comes from Mumbai. There are eight or ten articles about the terrorist attacks here; go to the South Asia section and keep scrolling. It’s still early days in this story, and information keeps flooding in. I’ve collected a lot of it, and hope to take ...
Mayhem in Mumbai: India Reels Under Another Terror Attack — Counterterrorism Blog
This column is another in the ongoing series on the terrorist threat to India and the surrounding region by Frank Hyland and Animesh Roul. Almost a day after Mumbai was struck by multiple terrorist attacks, a warlike situation still prevails on the ground, as security forces continue ...
Obama's weekly address: The American people can give thanks that a new, brighter day is yet to come. — Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News
Source: [b]CNN[/b] As the nation enters the traditional holiday shopping season in the midst of a financial crisis and is reminded of its own potential vulnerability by the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, President-elect Barack Obama called on Americans to come together for the sake of the ...
The Mumbai Attacks - Al Qaeda, Pakistani Proxies or Hindutva Backlash? — Crooks and Liars
C-Span coverage of the attacks - and Deepak Chopra points out that the War on Terror turns moderates into extremists. With more than 100 dead and reports of up to 900 injured, the horrific events in Mumbai have now moved into a second day. Attacks by well-armed and organised Moslem terrorists, ...
Al Qaida-Mumbai Link Disputed — The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
PARIS -- A day after the terror attacks in Mumbai that killed over 100 people, one question remained as impenetrable as the smoke that still billowed from two of the city's landmark hotels: who carried out the attacks? Security officials and experts agreed that the assaults represented a ...
The Mumbai Attacks - Al Qaeda, Pakistani Proxies or Hindutva Backlash? — Newshoggers.com
By Cernig With more than 100 dead and reports of up to 900 injured , the horrific events in Mumbai have now moved into a second day. Attacks by well-armed and organised Moslem terrorists, who targeted UK, US and Israeli nationals in particular and took hostages at top hotels in India's ...
Mumbai killers… a rose by any other name — Flopping Aces
Again the most powerful and influential western media - the NYTs - manages to muddy the waters when defining the enemy of the west in their article today, Sophisticated Attacks, but al Qaida link disputed. A day after the terror attacks in Mumbai that killed over 100 people, one question ...
Indian Authorities Likely To Blame Outsiders For Attacks — The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
MUMBAI, India -- Indian commandos rescued some hostages in raids on Thursday as standoffs continued against heavily armed militants who a day earlier had swept into Mumbai, India's commercial capital, in a shocking series of coordinated and bloody attacks. In a televised address, Prime ...
Massive Terror Attacks in Mumbai, India — Wizbang
I was on the road all day yesterday so I was unable to log on. I saw a few minutes of the chaos on Fox News before heading to bed...
Be thankful that you are free — Jihad Watch
Happy Thanksgiving. In past years I've written on this day that I'm thankful that there haven't been more jihad terror attacks on U.S. soil. I am thankful for that this year also, but this year's Thanksgiving comes in the shadow of the jihad attacks in Mumbai -- and we must not forget that ...
Terror Attacks In Mumbai, India — Flopping Aces
Since I’ve been traveling all day today I was remiss in not posting about the horrible terrorist attacks in India. Something which intelligence agencies were expecting according to the Times of London : Western intelligence services have been expecting an al-Qaeda spectacular terrorist ...
Terror in Mumbai — Comments from Left Field
This isn’t what I want to think about happening before Turkey Day… Reports says over 40 people are dead in the Mumbai terror attacks today, and there may be American and British hostages at hotels. I don’t have time to provide more detailed coverage, but metblogs.mumbai.com ...