G7 False Flag Mumbai massacre...Official story is TOTAL BS! Hindu Undercover!

[Dig]

One of the Queen's slaves speaks...(after continuing the policies of famine and poverty in India for over 100 years, who is condemning whom?)


Britain condemns Mumbai attacks
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/392502/1/.html
Posted: 27 November 2008 0419 hrs


LONDON: British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Wednesday "unreservedly" condemned the attacks in India's financial capital Mumbai that killed nearly 60 people.

"Today's attacks in Mumbai which have claimed many innocent victims remind us, yet again, of the threat we face from violent extremists," he said.

"I condemn these attacks unreservedly.

"Our thoughts are with the families and friends of those killed and injured. The UK and India will continue their joint efforts to counter the actions of terrorists."

A series of shootings and blasts across Mumbai late Wednesday left nearly 60 people dead, hospital officials told AFP.

The Press Trust of India said that as many as 200 people had been injured in the attacks, which saw heavily armed men with automatic weapons and grenades target luxury hotels in the south of the city and the main railway station. - AFP/de

[Dok]

India/Bombay/Mumbai Under Attack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9stfkgFWfc

MOV00251.MP4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HzEhw85jK4

[Dig]

Massacre in India
http://reason.com/blog/show/130294.html
Michael C. Moynihan | November 26, 2008, 3:19pm

Not many details at the moment, but we do know that gunmen opened fire at various sites in Bombay in what appears to be a coordinated terrorist attack. According to BBC News, unconfirmed reports say that 80 are dead, 250 injured, and an unknown number are being held hostage in a "luxury hotel."

On Wednesday, gunmen opened fire in at least seven sites, including a train station, two five-star hotels, a hospital and a restaurant popular with tourists.

At least two blasts, suspected to be grenade attacks, were reported alongside the shootings.

Police said the gunmen had fired indiscriminately.

At least 10 people were killed at the Chhatrapati Shivaji railway station, they said.
A man shows the wounds of another man injured in a gunbattle at Mumbai's Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus.

"The terrorists have used automatic weapons and in some places grenades have been lobbed," said AN Roy, police commissioner of Maharashtra state.

The Times (UK) reports that the terrorists were targeting foreigners.

[Brocke]

60 killed, 200 injured in attacks at tourist hotspots in Mumbai

27/11/2008 6:53:00 AM.  | AFP



Injured man lies on baggage trolley in Mumbai | AAP

About 60 bodies and more than 200 injured people have been brought to a hospital in Mumbai after a series of shootings and blasts across India's financial capital, the Press Trust of India says.

Gunmen armed with powerful assault rifles and grenades launched the attacks late on Wednesday, with five-star hotels among the targets, police said.

Maharashtra state police chief AN Roy told the NDTV channel that "unknown terrorists" had opened fire in "at least seven to eight places" across the city.

The Press Trust of India (PTI) quoted a senior police officer as saying that 10 people were killed and more than 30 people injured in one attack on Mumbai's main Chhatrapati Shivaji railway station.

Three staff were shot dead in a separate shooting incident at the luxury Taj Mahal hotel in nearby Colaba district, while three more died in what police called a "bomb blast" in a taxi in the southeast of the city.

Mumbai General Railway Police Commissioner AK Sharma was quoted as saying that several men armed with AK-47 rifles had stormed into the passenger hall of the railway station shortly after 10.30pm (0400 AEDT) and opened fire and thrown grenades.

Firing was also reported at Cama Hospital in south Mumbai, while the lobby of another five-star hotel, the Trident, formerly the Oberoi, was on fire, witnesses said.

There was another shooting incident outside the Leopold Restaurant, police said. The popular haunt in Colaba is a magnet for foreign tourists in part due to its role in the best-selling book Shantaram by Australian author Gregory David Roberts.

One television report put the death toll as high as 25. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh condemned the attacks and said the Maharashtra state government would get all the assistance required.

"Some of these terrorists are still holed up inside the Taj hotel," Roy said.

The Taj, next to the British colonial-era Gateway of India monument, is one of the world's leading hotels and regularly attracts VIP visitors.

The head of the Madrid regional government, Esperanza Aguirre, was staying there at the time but she and her delegation escaped unhurt, a government spokesman in Madrid told AFP.

Mumbai had been the start of a four-day official visit to India.

The BBC News website said that British member of the European Parliament, Sajjad Karim, was also in the hotel at the time and saw a gunman open fire in the lobby.

"All I saw was one man on foot carrying a machine gun-type of weapon - which I then saw him firing from and I saw people hitting the floor, people right next to me," he was quoted as saying.

One British guest told local Indian television that he had been among a dozen people herded together by two heavily armed men and taken up to the hotel's upper floors.

"They were very young, like boys really, wearing jeans and T-shirts," the guest said.

"They said they wanted anyone with British and American passports and then they took us up the stairs. I think they wanted to take us to the roof," he said, adding that he and another hostage had managed to escape when they reached the 18th floor.

As he was speaking, there was a loud explosion from the roof of the hotel.

India has witnessed a series of coordinated attacks in recent months.

A little-known Islamic group, the Islamic Security Force-Indian Mujahedeen, claimed responsibility for serial blasts last month in India's north-east state of Assam that claimed nearly 80 lives.

A total of 12 explosions shook the insurgency-hit northeastern state, six of them ripping through crowded areas in the main city of Guwahati.

Six weeks earlier, the capital New Delhi had been hit by a series of bombs in crowded markets that left more than 20 dead. Those blasts were claimed by a group calling itself the Indian Mujahedeen.

http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/11/27/Gunmen_target_tourists_hotspots_in_Mumbai_16_killed

[Dig]

Five star hotels in the capital on high alert
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1209690
PTI
Thursday, November 27, 2008  01:57 IST               



NEW DELHI: The five star hotels in the national capital turned into mini-fortresses with dozens of additional private security guards swinging into action checking on vehicles and frisking the patrons following Wednesday night's terror attacks on the posh hotels in Mumbai.

"Our security was always on high alert. We had put into place a new security system after the serial blasts in Delhi. It is a tragic time that we are living in. The security of our patrons are our top most priority," an executive of the Park Hotel located in Central Delhi said.

The scene outside another two of the many high-end hotels in the capital was no different with entry and exit of the Taj Palace and the Maurya Sheraton were put under tight security.

Barricades were placed outside the hotels with private security guards keeping a close eye on the visitors.

Cars were not allowed to stop in front of the hotel as guards could be seen asking the drivers to park ahead.

"Security has been beefed up at our hotels in Delhi but our concern remains Mumbai. Things are just fine here," an executive with the Taj Group of hotels said.

Incidentally, the Group's hotel in Mumbai was- attacked by terrorists with heavy gunfire being heard coming from inside
the hotel even as blood soaked guests were seen being brought out into the waiting ambulances.

The Delhi police has stepped up the security in the national capital in the wake of terror attacks in Mumbai.

[Dig]

2 terrorists killed, 2 arrested in Mumbai
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1209691
IANS
Thursday, November 27, 2008  02:00 IST               


MUMBAI: Two suspected terrorists were killed and two were arrested hours after terror attacks in Mumbai that left at least 17 dead and over 50 injured, police and eyewitnesses said.

Two terrorists were killed in a shootout near Chowpati beach, according to the witnesses.

Two terrorists were arrested in Tardeo, the police said.

Suspected terrorists struck in at least seven places, including a busy railway teminus and two five-star hotels, in this commercial capital of India on Wednesday night.

Mumbai Police Commissioner Hasan Ghafoor said the attacks were suspected to be "coordinated terrorist acts", and added that automatic weapons like AK-47 and AK-56, semi-automatic rifles an grenades were apparently used. Most of the injured were policemen.

[Revolt426]

Americans will probably be killed and AL Queda Blamed thus initiating a bigger offensive on Pakistan, which is where they will say the Militants originated. It's starting already and Obama hasn't taken office, which confirms my suspicions that Zbzreznski is running the Geo Political show at the moment

[Optimus]

CNN reporting gun fire in another hotel north of city!

[voodo0]

Seven foreigners among 15 taken hostage at Mumbai's Taj

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/7_foreigners_among_15_taken_hostage_at_Mumbais_Taj/articleshow/3761833.cms

[Dig]

If the US Press does not report on something (like this) they usually do not plan it.

However, this will be used by brzezenskif**ker for opportunistic purposes.

India and Pakistan have nukes.

US has always tried to target Pakistan as the main enemy and India as a peaceful defender of freedom.  This string of attacks by what Reagan would call "freedom fighters" does not seem to be in the "India Peaceful" playbook.

Thus the US media seems to be minimizing this or trying to call it all random terrorism when it seems to be a coordinated effort by hundreds of pissed off people who are tired of feudalistic policies.

[Revolt426]

One of the Queen's slaves speaks...(after continuing the policies of famine and poverty in India for over 100 years, who is condemning whom?)


Britain condemns Mumbai attacks
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/392502/1/.html
Posted: 27 November 2008 0419 hrs


LONDON: British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Wednesday "unreservedly" condemned the attacks in India's financial capital Mumbai that killed nearly 60 people.

If David Millband is condemning the attack so fast it means Britain was involved. He is a genocidal maniac - he said that even though Georgia murdered South. Ossetian civilians the murders werer justified because they burned down a few of their own houses.

[voodo0]

deccan mujahideen?

[voodo0]

Terror attacks in Mumbai; 80 dead, over 300 injured

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Terrorists_strike_Mumbai_80_dead_300_hurt/articleshow/3761410.cms

[Dig]

If David Millband is condemning the attack so fast it means Britain was involved. He is a genocidal maniac - he said that even though Georgia murdered South. Ossetian civilians the murders werer justified because they burned down a few of their own houses.

One of the earlier stories says that the RAF is on standby, they probably cannot wait to drop in, slaughter hundreds and then say they were all "terrorists".

Millband looks like they are trying to push for a green light on black ops.

This is not Georgia, they can get away with it in India with limited risk.

This could get real ugly quick.

[skyfind]

remember 911, the media always saying "TERRORIST" "TERROR ATTACK", etc.... Ask who gave this "terrorists" in Mumbai all the weapons, granades, etc..., and from where came all the military training to make all this attacks

PD-edit:
CNN (spanish) is linking this attack to Osama bin laden and Pakistan(saying osama is there/coming from there), because the way it was made this "terrorist attack", attacking a financial sector, like in 1993

edit2; now linking to alqaeda and saying how alqaeda always attacks this places, "now they are attacking mumbai", the reporter in CNN says

edit3: now saying the alqaeda headquarter is in pakistan, and linking pakistan to this attacks. "They were in Afnganistan, but when the USA went there they cross the border and now they are inf Pakistan", CNN reporter says.

[JTCoyoté]

Obama will now be clear to justify nuking Pakistan... How convenient...

--Oldyoti

“We confide in our strength, without boasting of it;
 we respect that of others, without fearing it."
~Thomas Jefferson 1793

[Dig]

This looks like it is either the work of Tamil Tigers or of NWO false flag to justify "Western Protection" of India:


ATF chief, encounter specialist killed
http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1709226
Thursday, November 27, 2008

Mumbai: Three top police officials, including Mumbai Police Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare, were among the nine police officers killed as security forces took on terrorists in Mumbai in the early hours of Thursday, authorities said.


Additional Police Commissioner Ashok Kamte, Mumbai Police 'encounter specialist' Vijay Salaskar were also killed in separate gun battles following a series of attacks in India's financial capital, the officials said.

Karkare was heading investigations into several recent cases of terrorist attacks here. There were six other police officials among the dozens killed in the coordinated terror attacks late Wednesday night.

Indo-Asian News Service

[Dig]

Obama will now be clear to justify nuking Pakistan... How convenient...

--Oldyoti

“We confide in our strength, without boasting of it;
 we respect that of others, without fearing it."
~Thomas Jefferson 1793

Looks like the NWO/CFR all got their spin stories aligned because now they are finally reporting the extent of the major attacks on FOX.

You are right...

Queue Cards on MSM...

"TERRORIST

TERRORIST

TERRORIST

repeat until you have no more voice"

Do not forget Biden's warning.

Also, if this was not coordinated by NWO they would need to minimize it to keep us asleep while they plan another US false flag before the "changing of the puppets."

[DCUBED]

They are showing a picture of one of the terrorists.  He looks Indian, not Arab.

[nofakenews]

Notice how they say 7 coordinated attacks the number 7 nwo again

[Optimus]

CNN already reporting the State Department condemns attacks.

[Revolt426]

Just as i thought (ATF) American Killed, This means a massive SURGE in military presense in that area leading to a large insurgency from Pakistan, funded by the same Europeans that fund our Politicians

[Capt. Obvious]

they are now showing a loop of a POLICE van driving by firing indiscriminately in a crowd

anchor making the point repeatedly that it is a police van

[DCUBED]

They just showed a police van drive by and shot into a crowd.

[Dig]

U.S. slams Mumbai attacks, no known U.S. casualties
http://in.reuters.com/article/topNews/idINIndia-36720320081126
Thu Nov 27, 2008 2:10am IST


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday strongly condemned a series of attacks apparently aimed at tourists in the Indian financial capital Mumbai and said the State Department was not aware of any U.S. casualties.

"The United States strongly condemns the terrorist attacks that have taken place in Mumbai, India. We are monitoring the situation very closely and stand ready to support the Indian authorities as they deal with this horrific set of attacks," said State Department spokesman Robert Wood.

He said at this point, the State Department was not aware of any U.S. casualties in the attacks, in which scores of people were killed and hundreds wounded.

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Way to go Mr. Robert Wood, now what about the one million Iraqi citizens that have been murdered by your state department?

[admin]

Mumbai Attacks To Be Linked To Obama Target Pakistan?

Coordinated attacks across Mumbai, India’s financial capital, which have killed up to a hundred people and injured hundreds more, are likely to be blamed on a terrorist organization linked to the Pakistani ISI, providing further justification for controversial U.S. bombings inside Pakistani territory and heightened rhetoric against Pakistan on behalf of President elect Barack Obama.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/mumbai-attacks-to-be-linked-to-obama-target-pakistan.html

[Dig]

Fate of two MEPs unknown after Bombay attacks
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5240689.ece
David Charter in Brussels [They are reporting from fricking Brussels?]

The fate of at least two MEPs including a British Conservative member was unknown last night after they fled the gunmen who burst into the Taj Mahal Hotel and took refuge in different parts of the building.

Sajjad Karim, 38, the Conservative MEP for the North West, spoke to Sky News of his ordeal and attempts to hide from the assassins in the basement of the hotel until his mobile phone battery ran out at around 7pm UK time.

Erika Mann, 57, a German Socialist MEP, was last heard of hiding in the hotel kitchens from where she told a concerned colleague who called her on her mobile: “It is too dangerous to talk.” Speaking by mobile phone from a barricaded basement room at around 6pm UK time, Mr Karim said that he and others had fled from machine-gun fire and had no idea why the hotel was targeted.

“I was in the lobby of the hotel when gunmen came in and people started running. There were about 25 or 30 of us,” he said.
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“Some of us split one way and some another. A gunman just stood there spraying bullets around, right next to me. I managed to turn away and I ran into the hotel kitchen and then we were shunted into a restaurant in the basement. We are now in the dark in this room and we have barricaded all the doors. It’s really bad.” He added that as he ran from the lobby, he saw people falling but did not know the extent of any casualties. He said that it seemed to be a random attack.

Mr Karim and Ms Mann were on a delegation of European parliamentarians from the trade committee staying in the Mumbai hotel for meetings ahead of an EU/India summit.

Before his phone cut out, Mr Karim told Sky News: “There was a lot of commotion in the main lobby, and then another gunman came right in front of us and started shooting. I saw a number of people go down, but I was fortunate enough to get away.” Syed Kamall, a Conservative MEP for London and the only other British member of the group, told The Times that he feared for the safety of his colleagues after losing contact during the chaotic events of the evening.

“It is still going on and they are still out there,” said Mr Kamall, speaking at 7.30pm UK time from a restaurant a short distance from the Taj. He left the hotel with a several fellow MEPs shortly before the shooting started.

“We left the hotel just before they got there, by pure luck,” he said.

“As I arrived at the restaurant, I got a phone call from Sajjad who said ’Are you OK?’ I asked why and he said ’Because a gunman just rushed past me into the hotel, looked at me and shot someone else.’ “We have heard that at least three staff from the hotel were shot dead. One of our party was shot and is now in hospital. He is a young guy, a Hungarian assistant to one of the committee. He was out for a drink in the bar with another guy and they ran but got sprayed with bullets. We don’t know exactly how he is.” Mr Kamall said that Mr Karim was at that moment still barricaded in the basement of the hotel and was last in contact at around 7pm UK time. “In his last text to me he said ’I am panicky but I am OK’,” he said.

While he was with several members of the MEP group, Mr Kamall, 41, added that he was unsure of the whereabouts of a third MEP, a Polish parliamentarian called Jan Masiel, 45, Mr Masiel was understood to have been sleeping in his room when the attack was launched.

[DCUBED]

bomb just went off in hotel.

[voodo0]

Terror attacks in Mumbai; 80 dead, over 900 injured

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Terrorists_strike_Mumbai_80_dead_900_hurt/articleshow/3761410.cms


The attacks have taken a tragic toll on the city's top police brass: The high-profile chief of the anti-terror squad Hemant Karkare was killed; Mumbai's additional commissioner of police (east) Ashok Kamte was gunned down outside the Metro; and celebrated encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar was also killed

[Brocke]

Images from AP images


Image - AP0811270156
Firefighters inspect the site of an explosion in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008. Gunmen targeted luxury hotels, a popular tourist attraction and a crowded train station in at least seven attacks in India's financial capital Wednesday, wounding 25 people, police and witnesses said. A.N Roy police commissioner of Maharashtra state, of which Mumbai is the capital, said several people had been wounded in the attacks and police were battling the gunmen. "The terrorists have used automatic weapons and in some places grenades have been lobbed," said Roy. Gunmen opened fire on two of the city's best known Luxury hotels, the Taj Mahal and the Oberoi. They also attacked the crowded Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus station in southern Mumbai and Leopold's restaurant, a Mumbai landmark. It was not immediately clear what the motive was for the attacks. (AP Photo)


Image - AP081126015577
** EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT ** Luggage of passengers lie scattered on a blood splattered platform at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008. Police say several people have been wounded in a series of attacks by terrorist gunmen at seven sites in Mumbai, including two luxury hotels. A.N. Roy, a senior police officer, says police were battling the gunmen. (AP Photo)


Image - AP081126014711
People seek cover at the front of a hotel in Mumbai, India in this image made from television, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008. Gunmen targeted luxury hotels, a popular tourist attraction and a crowded train station in at least seven attacks in India's financial capital Wednesday, wounding 25 people, police and witnesses said. A.N Roy police commissioner of Maharashtra state, of which Mumbai is the capital, said several people had been wounded in the attacks and police were battling the gunmen. "The terrorists have used automatic weapons and in some places grenades have been lobbed," said Roy. Gunmen opened fire on two of the city's best known Luxury hotels, the Taj Mahal and the Oberoi. They also attacked the crowded Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus station in southern Mumbai and Leopold's restaurant, a Mumbai landmark. It was not immediately clear what the motive was for the attacks. (AP Photo/STAR NEWS) ** INDIA OUT TV OUT **

[Dig]

Mumbai Attacks To Be Linked To Obama Target Pakistan?

Coordinated attacks across Mumbai, India’s financial capital, which have killed up to a hundred people and injured hundreds more, are likely to be blamed on a terrorist organization linked to the Pakistani ISI, providing further justification for controversial U.S. bombings inside Pakistani territory and heightened rhetoric against Pakistan on behalf of President elect Barack Obama.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/mumbai-attacks-to-be-linked-to-obama-target-pakistan.html

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They got caught with their pants down and now they have no choice but to spin the story and blame Pakistan!

You cut off the spin doctors before they even had a chance to fully formulate the coordinated media terrorist attack on all of us using Brzezinki propaganda!

[Biggs]

attacks at

Taj Palace Hotel
Oberoi Hotel
Ramada Inn Hotel
Trident Hotel

hostages at at least 2 of these, but perhaps more, certainly some western hostages

attacks at
Leopold restaurant (big tourist venue)
Victoria Train station
a police station (3 senior officers killed)
a major Hospital
a car bomb went off somewhere

some other shooting events, outside State Parliament, and some random places, plus a police car hijacked, a boat full of explsives seized

80 dead, 250 wounded so far, many critically, toll expected to rise both amongst the wounded and new casualties so far uncounted

clearly very serious

clearl.y will be used to ramp up pressure on Pakistan and to take actions across the Afghan/Pakistan border thus pushing Pakistan ever nearer to civil war

at one or more hotels gunmen singled out people with US or Uk passports
 
fire spreading through 22 story Taj Hotel

[Suriel]

Fate of two MEPs unknown after Bombay attacks
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5240689.ece
David Charter in Brussels [They are reporting from fricking Brussels?]

The fate of at least two MEPs including a British Conservative member was unknown last night after they fled the gunmen who burst into the Taj Mahal Hotel and took refuge in different parts of the building.
...

If anything hapens to these mentioned I fear the worst for this region.

[Dig]

remember 911, the media always saying "TERRORIST" "TERROR ATTACK", etc.... Ask who gave this "terrorists" in Mumbai all the weapons, granades, etc..., and from where came all the military training to make all this attacks

PD-edit:
CNN (spanish) is linking this attack to Osama bin laden and Pakistan(saying osama is there/coming from there), because the way it was made this "terrorist attack", attacking a financial sector, like in 1993

edit2; now linking to alqaeda and saying how alqaeda always attacks this places, "now they are attacking mumbai", the reporter in CNN says

edit3: now saying the alqaeda headquarter is in pakistan, and linking pakistan to this attacks. "They were in Afnganistan, but when the USA went there they cross the border and now they are inf Pakistan", CNN reporter says.

They are still trying to spin this as terrorists against westerners.

They are not talking about how the Indian economy has been destroyed by BS Rothschild/Rockefeller pump and dump games.

They are reporting this as if it was an attack on a US embassy by OBL himself.

[mrwise]

HOLY SHIT:

A photo of one of the terrorists--looks like he's possessed--MKULTRA??

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g38/mbc29/mkultra.jpg

[Biggs]

Terror attacks in Mumbai; 80 dead, over 900 injured

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Terrorists_strike_Mumbai_80_dead_900_hurt/articleshow/3761410.cms


The attacks have taken a tragic toll on the city's top police brass: The high-profile chief of the anti-terror squad Hemant Karkare was killed; Mumbai's additional commissioner of police (east) Ashok Kamte was gunned down outside the Metro; and celebrated encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar was also killed

add to my list another hospital, both the Cama and GT hospitals attacked, and a cinema multiplex and a local airport (not Mumbai International)

so that is attacks in 13 locations, plus numerous smaller random shooting incidents

900 wounded

f**k me

[Dig]

Kiwis trapped in hotel room
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4774656a12.html
By MICHAEL FOX - Stuff.co.nz | Thursday, 27 November 2008


New Zealander David Clemmett and his wife Vinka are reportedly trapped inside their Mumbai hotel room.


They heard pistols, rifles, shotguns and grenades, NewstalkZB reported.

Clemmett and his wife, according to the radio station, locked themselves in their room, barricaded the TV unit against the doors and pulled the blind down to protect themselves from broken glass.

He said smoke had filled the room from fires within the hotel and they had to rip the smoke detector off the wall.

Auckland businessman Steve Simms is also in Mumbai, near where the chaos is gripping the Indian city.

Simms said he was holed up in his hotel, about 800 to 1200 metres from the hotels under siege. His hotel was under heavy security guard.

"It sounds like its almost about 200m away," he said.

"I'm still hearing gunfire and grenades and it's now 2am."

The attacks had been going for three hours and it was hard to say whether the situation was improving or getting worse.

Simms said he was not concerned for his safety due to the heavy security presence around his hotel - a sister property to one of the hotels where the terrorist attacks were happening.

"It would appear that every third person is a security guard in Mumbai.

"I know I might sound a little bit jovial about it but, hey, it's 1.46am over here and I'm pretty buggered and I just find the whole situation pretty bizarre."

Mr Simms said there was no indication leading up to the attack that the violence was about to erupt.

"It's an absolute surprise to everybody."

His family and friends were worried but he was keeping in contact with them on the phone and over the Internet.

"Everyone's obviously watching ... of course they are worried. Needless to say, I'm all packed up and ready to go if I have to."

However, he was confident the situation would be resolved and he would be able to stay.

"This is just another situation that will last probably 24 hours. The whole city is under lock down, everyone's going to conform, all the terrorists will be arrested and some of them will escape."

This was not the first time Mr Simms has been in India around the time of a terrorist attack - arriving in Bangalore the day after terrorist attacks earlier this year.

[voodo0]

HOLY SHIT:

A photo of one of the terrorists--looks like he's possessed--MKULTRA??

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g38/mbc29/mkultra.jpg

crazy!

[DCUBED]

I think it will be difficult to blame this on Islamic terrorists. First, they have no reason to do this in India. Second, they were showing a picture of one of the terrorists and he was definitely Indian.

[Dig]

7 foreigners among 15 taken hostage by 2 gunmen in Taj Hotel
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=Cricket&id=f1d80a52-6489-4367-8b55-65d48e7e5c3c&&Headline=7+foreigners+among+15+taken+hostage
Mumbai, November 27, 2008
First Published: 02:21 IST(27/11/2008)
Last Updated: 02:28 IST(27/11/2008)

Two terrorists carrying guns tonight took 15 people, half of them foreigners, hostage on the roof of the luxury Taj Hotel here, one of the hostages who managed to escape said.

Two youths in their 20s came to the restaurant of the hotel and took 15 people to the roof of the hotel, Rakesh Patel, a businessman from London who lives in Hong Kong, told NDTV giving the first eyewitness account of what happened in the five-star hotel in South Mumbai.

"The two young boys came to the restaurant and took us upstairs. We were taken to the 18th floor from where we escaped", he said.

Replying to a question, Patel said the terrorists wanted to know if any one of the hostages was carrying American and British passports.