http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7752625.stm
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By Soutik Biswas
BBC News, Mumbai |
Pappu Mishra was tending to his customers at his glass-walled cafe at the gothic Victorian Chattrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station in Mumbai when he spotted two sprightly young men dressed in black.
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He remembers the two sauntering into the waiting hall, plonking their handbags on the floor, taking out a gun "which looked like an AK-47", and walking toward the platforms where they gunned down late-evening commuters on the city's busy suburban train network.
"Their audaciousness was breath-taking," he says.
"One man loaded the magazine into the gun, the other kept shooting. They appeared calm and composed. They were not in the slightest hurry. They didn't seem to be afraid at all."
The men entered a platform and shot a man near an automated teller machine.
Then they turned around and shot another commuter at the grubby, dark-tiled drinking water station around the corner.
Then, the "foreign looking, fair skinned" men, as Mr Mishra remembers them, simply carried on killing.
Outside the station, shipping firm executive Anil Kumar Goswami was sitting in a tea shop. He saw flashes of gunfire through the rusty ornamental iron and brass railings and wood carved windows.
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 Bodies with gaping bullet wounds lay all over, and the waiting hall became a sea of blood  Pappu Mishra
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He walked towards one of the gates to find out what was happening.
"As I entered the station, a shot rang out and I ducked. I lay on the floor and watched a horror film unfold," he says.
"I saw a man falling to gunfire. I saw one of the shooters walking across the platform. It was a festival of dead bodies."
Killing zone
Back at the station cafe, Mr Mishra ordered all customers to lie down on the floor even as a crescendo of gunfire rattled the building.
The shooters swung the gun around once. Bullets pierced the cafe's glass walls, hitting one of his employees. He is now on a life support machine.
"It was the longest 10-15 minutes of my life," Mr Mishra said. "They fired at least three rounds without any resistance. I had no clue why they were doing this."
 Bags lay scattered at Chattrapati Shivaji station after the attack
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In that short time, the two men turned one of India's most historic railroad stations into a killing zone.
"Bodies with gaping bullet wounds lay all over, and the waiting hall became a sea of blood," says Mr Mishra.
At least 10 people died at the station, also known as Victoria Terminus, on what newspapers described as Mumbai's "darkest night".
Officials say that of the more than 100 people who died in Wednesday's attacks by a group of unidentified gunmen, the majority of the dead were commuters waiting to get on to trains at the station.
The police arrived half an hour after it was all over and the men had vanished into a balmy Mumbai evening.
"The system is loose, the security is hollow. They killed as they wished, and there were no policemen around," Mr Mishra says.
Cafe attack
Not far across town, Judith Rosta, a German teacher from Vienna, had completed a shoot for a music video for two Indian singers and was walking past the market at Colaba, the hip, touristy hub of posh south Mumbai, with her Russian girlfriend, Valentina.
She says she was buying papayas when she noticed three men on a motorcycle stopping on the road and taking out "big guns".
"They wore white jeans and T-shirts. They were shouting, getting agitated and waved their guns around.
"I dropped my shopping and began walking away towards my hotel. Minutes later, a friend called up saying that there had been a bloody incident of firing in the area," she says.
Leopold Cafe owner Farzed Jehani: 'A grenade was thrown in to the restaurant'
Hours after the shooting at the Leopold Cafe, a cult city cafe and a favourite hangout of foreigners and locals alike, the place smelt of stale beer and bleaching powder.
Broken crockery from a market stall lay strewn on the sidewalk. Fresh blood stains on the bullet-pocked wall were mixed with the old betel- leaf spit stains.
Locals say the orgy of killings in Mumbai began here. Three men walked into the cafe, drank beer, settled their bills and walked out. Then they fished out guns from their bags and began firing.
Gaffar Abdul Amir, an Iraqi tourist from Baghdad, says he saw at least two men who started the firing outside the Leopold Cafe.
He was returning to his hotel from the seaside with a friend when he saw two men carrying bags and brandishing AK-47s walking in front of them, shooting.
"They did not look Indian, they looked foreign. One of them, I thought, had blonde hair. The other had a punkish hairstyle. They were neatly dressed," says Mr Amir.
As the two girls fell near the cafe, he saw the two men quickening their steps towards the Taj Mahal hotel further up the road.
A few minutes later, gunfire was heard from the hotel, and much later, Mr Amir heard that gunmen had taken guests hostage.
Missing relatives
Sixteen hours after the attacks, people are still waiting for their relatives to come out of the hotel.
Vishram Tulsiram Nagde spent all of Thursday near the hotel trying to find out whether his brother and uncle, who worked in the hotel, were trapped inside.
His brother works in the housekeeping department, and his uncle is a cook in the hotel. They did not return home after they finished work on Wednesday night.
"I am very worried. We have no clue where they are. The police is not telling us anything. And we cannot get in touch with the hotel," he says.
All around, shops are shuttered and offices are closed. There is little traffic on the roads. Throngs of curious people move around talking about the attacks.
VS Naipaul once famously said: "Mumbai is a crowd". A day after the attacks, Mumbai was barely crawling.
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I went to Colombo, Sri Lanka, from India in Feb 1996, just a few days (2-3) after a massive bomb went off in Colombo, killing about 90 people at the Central Bank buildings there.
I got a copy of one of the English language dailies, and one of the articles (a small one) stated that the day the bombs went off, two caucasian men were spotted videotaping the bank building area at around 7 am. They were spotted taping again after the bomb went off, around 9 am.
The article said a crowd had gone looking for the men but could not locate them.
Ostrovsky's book on the Mossad states that Israel has been training both sides in the Sri Lankan civil war and has sold arms to both sides.
Mumbai may be some of the same kind of monkey business - after all, do the elite care if a few inconsequential Jews get killed off?
Here we go, another reason for everyone to be armed. Just like at VA tech, it was a slaughter, when it could have been a gun battle. I know this sounds nuts, but when you have an armed and willing opponent, you can't just confidently shoot whoever you want, the way this slime did. Watch for the FBI agents heading there to try to spin this into a Pakistani operation. The FBI can't deduce anything they aren't told to.
Don't discount knuckleheaded Blackwater personnel from being involved, after all they have nearly 8 years on the job training terrorizing and shooting civilians in urban settings including a stint in New Orleans.
lmao, ADL decrying the fingerpointing.
ADL Statement on Mumbai Terrorist Attacks
Big Lie Blaming Jews Circulating
No, it actually works in their favor. They seem to try to keep Jewish deaths to a minimum, but if a few token Jews can be taken out and their deaths highly publicised, it's a great justification for Israeli aggression. Israel needs to sacrifice a few of its own every now and then to keep its victim status fresh.
And the dead Mumbai Jews just happen to be Chabad Lubavitchers - as Jewish as they come, to make sure we all notice Israel's suffering.
Check out these few examples:
ADL: White Supremacist Rage Boils Over After Obama Victory
ADL Reports Surge in Anti-Semitic Messages on Online Finance Sites in Response to Money Crisis
ADL Commends Federal Agents for Preventing Killing Spree and Obama Assassination Attempt
ADL: Ahmadinejad's Speech to the U.N. Put His Anti-Semitism on Full Display
ADL Offers Reward of Up to $2,500 Following Anti-Jewish Vandalism of San Franscisco Holocaust Memorial
And on and on it goes.
I'm so sickened to see the media only report on that dead Rabbi during the Bombay attack. As if there are no one else to report on! How about all the other 100 people who got killed. That rabbi's story is the only thing on TV now.
WHO CARES!?!?
When the Jew start giving shit about non-Jewish lives around the world, then I will say that the death of that rabbi was a sad thing to happen.
The article cites the source right at the top, so it can't be plagiarism. I suggest you familiarise yourself with the meaning of the word before going to the trouble of signing up here just to leave an ill-informed comment. For what it is worth, the material is posted here for the purposes of education and critique, sidestepping any copyright issues you seem to think exist.
As for the culprits being named already, I'm sure they've conveniently left their ID cards somewhere so that they could be quickly identified, just as was the case on 9/11 7/7 and in Madrid.
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As for all the weepy TV news programs about two dead Hasidics, it doesn't get much plainer as to who runs the world.
Over 170 people died, but here in the US, we only get to hear repeatedly the stories about two Hasidics and a couple of other Americans.
What about the other 160+ people?
Don't they count?
The Zionist dominated MSM is again conflating what happened to Mumbai to a couple of Hasidics with the false-flag of 9/11 to show us GOY dummies that the Jews are in this battle against the "evildoers" with the Americans, so let's kill some more Muslims and while the Army and Marines are tying up air time, Israel will go on another rampage in Gaza and Lebanon.
I found this on another board. Intersting.
Kalava
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Kalava (Sanskrit: ?????) is the sacred Hindu thread. It is worn while performing Hindu rituals like Yajna or Puja. It is tied by a priest on the wrists of all the people attending the prayer ceremony. Kalava is tied on right hand of males and unmarried females, and on left hand of married females. Sometimes it has small yellow parts in between the mostly red string. It sometimes has knots which are tied up while reciting Sanskrit mantras to invoke God and is worn to ward off evil from the person who wears this red thread.
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I've got an AK and the ammo for that weapon is both heavy and bulky.
For someone to pull off this type of op, using the machine guns and automatic weapons described in the news, they would need at least several thousand rounds of ammo per weapon.
That amount of ammo is not easy to hide, unless the Chabad House was in on the operation.
Gee, is that being a "conspiracy" nut or just looking at both sides of a story?
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/20...ai- attacks.html
Couple more questions:
Did the Hasidic couple that died in the Chabad House perish from self-inflicted wounds?
Was there gun shot residue on their hands?
And how did their baby escape from those "Muzzie" throat slitters, who are always portrayed as being lovers of death?