Burkas a’plenty. I thought that 10 people couldn’t pull this off, and that some escaped. Probably by mixing in with the hostages or hotel guests and just running or wandering out. Like a movie plot, but real life.
>>>>>I thought that 10 people couldn’t pull this off, and that some escaped. <<<<<<
I have thought from the first story about the captured guy that several of his cohorts were caught and tortured into talking until their last breaths.
Not just dreaming that up. The contemporaneous reports were of two separate landings at two separate ports; the way the captured guy seemed “tightlipped” in the ER but later said “I want to die now” (after seeing his “mutilated” and dead buddy in the hospital); and other factoids.
In any case this was exactly the scenario where torture should have been and possibly was applied to terrorists in an effort to discover the scope and tactics of the plot.
By the way, there was a very early report describing the tactics and procedures of the terrorists that could only have come from a captee or an informant. As I read it I had the distinct impression it was from a captured suspect who spilled all the beans.