'There were bodies everywhere': Mumbai survivor

The Times of India ^ | Nov. 29, 2008 | AP story

[smokingfrog]

MUMBAI: At first, waiter Joseph Joy Pulithara thought the blasts were rows of liquor bottles exploding for some reason behind the Mumbai hotel's sleek bar. Running to the scene, he found a woman screaming, and a young man spraying gunfire.

The gunman was a member of a team that was well-armed, well-prepared and had just begun a two-day siege that would shut down India's financial and entertainment capital, leave more than 150 people dead and 370 injured, and turn the city's ritzy seaside district into a scene of horror.

[smokingfrog]

so much for communal harmony...

[LibFreeOrDie]

NDTV in India was reporting dead hostages found bound together, shot execution-style. Not sure in which hotel.

[nmh]

What’s Obama’s take on this?

Is he secretly meeting with the terrorists trying to make nice with them? Remember before the election he was meeting with our enemies with NO reconditions. So why would he wait to make friends with these people?

[LibFreeOrDie]

“President-Elect Obama strongly condemns today’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai, and his thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families, and the people of India. These coordinated attacks on innocent civilians demonstrate the grave and urgent threat of terrorism. The United States must continue to strengthen our partnerships with India and nations around the world to root out and destroy terrorist networks. We stand with the people of India, whose democracy will prove far more resilient than the hateful ideology that led to these attacks,” said Brooke Anderson, Chief National Security Spokesperson

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/26/obamas-mumbai-statement-o_n_146776.html

[Doe Eyes]

What’s Obama’s take on this?

Obama: Mumbai attacks will not defeat India's democracy

[doc1019]

Haven’t heard much from Bush either.

[LibFreeOrDie]

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=TSHA,TSHA:2006-16,TSHA:en&q=bush+mumbai

[Deo volente]

Taj Hotel chefs forced to make sandwiches for the terrorists, then lined up and shot to death.

http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Nov292008/scroll20081129103530.asp?section=updatenews

[nmh]

Bush is a lame duck.

The NYT want’s Obama to just take over.

BTW, is Obama going to burry his Grnadmother soon?

Remmeber she died the night before the election. I haven’t heard that he went back for anything. Guess she wasn’t important to him. I’ve read he works out in the gym but no time to pay his respects to his Grandmother ... .

[doc1019]

She was white and under a bus. Nuff said. ;-)

[CaptainK]

Too bad there was no rat poison handy.

[smokingfrog]

U.S. Media Ignoring Obama Mistakes With India/Pakistan

[Global2010]

POTUS O Elect is already getting good at the standard blah blah blah statements.

[oldenuff2no]

We have another lesson about islam. I haven't forgotten what we learned on 9/11. The only way to deal with muslim fanatics is to kill them. History has taught us that lesson over and over again for the last thousand years. The only thing the islamic world understands is superior force and the willingness to use it. We need to respond in a way they understand. Pick any major islamic city, tell them a week in advance that we will destroy it giving them time to evacuate the populace and set up a defense. At the end of that week destroy all of their defenses so the world can see that they are defenseless and then make that city glow in the dark!!!!! Tell the world that after the next attack there will be no warning and that mecca is on the short list!!!!! When they know that there will be accountability they will stop their crap.

[verklaring]

The hostages bound together and executed were found in the Jewish Chabad center not one of the hotels

[LeoWindhorse]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Arrested_terrorist_says_gang_hoped_to_get_away/articleshow/msid-3771598,curpg-2.cms

[pandoraou812]

From what I recall there is to be a private service at some later date. I guess when his has the spare time.

[SkyPilot]

They are "Militants" - the media will not refer to them as Muslims. ...........but by every other euphemism.

Assailants - National Public Radio.
Attackers – the Economist.
Bombers – the Guardian.
Captors – the Associated Press.
Commandos – Agence France-Presse refers to the terrorists both as "membres du commando" and "commando."
Criminals - the Times (London).
Extremists – United Press International.
Fighters – the Washington Post.
Group – the Australian.
Guerrillas - in a New York Post editorial.
Gunmen – Reuters.
Hostage-takers - the Los Angeles Times.
Insurgents – in a New York Times headline.
Kidnappers – the Observer (London).
Militants – the Chicago Tribune.
Perpetrators – the New York Times.
Radicals – the BBC.
Rebels – in a Sydney Morning Herald headline.
Separatists – the Christian Science Monitor.

[RushLake]

islamic filth - RusLake.

[PLMerite]

“What’s Obama’s take on this?”

The next four years are going to kill me. I’m forever going to be doing a double-take to see whether it’s “Obama” or “Osama.”