Posted on 11/26/2008 9:39:53 AM PST by Indian_Fighter_Kite
Mumbai: At least 15 people have been injured in gunfights between two groups in at least three places in Mumbai on Thursday night.
Details are sketchy but it is believed that two gangs fired at each other at outside CST Railway Terminus, Hotel Oberoi and the popular Café Leopold restaurant in Mumbai.
The first shooting took place near the CST police station
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I’m sorry to hear this Cedar Dave.
Apparently it’s Indian Mujahideen.
St. Pete’s Second Time Arounders Band will be at the parade too. I’m thinking Saturday or Sunday...
Sorry to hear about these attacks. I always felt safe in Bombay; more so than in most US cities.
I stayed at the Taj last year on a business trip. The hotel was full of American and European business people at that time. There were very few tourists. I loved the hotel. The food and service were outstanding.
I hope the police and military can find the terrorist plotters and agents and quickly bring them to justice.
Stay safe.
Mrs Magslinger has blocked CNN. She feared for the safety of the TV when I watched it.
Very sad.
Thanks for the ping and update tiredoflaundry.
That is to be expected, a rebound from over sold market.
Have the Indian Mujahideen put out a press release on TV or on the internet?
Maybe they will attack the eastern coastline next.
Marathi.
That was the language that you had mentioned, which I could not recall.
You are not from Orissa are you?
Your english is very good.
Nope . Mumbai is my home .
wiki has some info on my ethnicity !
East Indians are a Marathi-speaking, Roman Catholic ethnic group, based in and around the city of Mumbai in the state of Maharashtra. These people are of the original Marathi ethnic group and had been evangelized by the Portuguese, while retaining much of their pre-Christian traditions.
Bombay was formerly under the Portuguese in the 1500s; and East-Indians were then known as Bombay Portuguese. Bombay then became increasingly anglicized after the handover to the British in the 1600s. Under the British, they were known as Bombay Portuguese too, but, when immigrants from Portuguese-ruled Goa began to enter Bombay, in order to distinguish themselves from the Goans (whom the British also called Portuguese), they renamed themselves “East Indians”, purportedly after their affiliation to the British as locals of Bombay and as such to be distinguished from the Goan Catholics and the Mangalorean Catholics. In the 1960s, the Archdiocese of Bombay estimated that there were 92,000 East Indians in Mumbai out of which 76,000 were in suburban Mumbai and 16,000 in urban Mumbai.
The latest is that the Deccan Mujahideen has claimed responsiblity .
THEY ARE A NEW GROUP !
I just KNEW it had to be Amanpour bad-mouthing us.
Kind of justifies it doesn’t it? When Christine speaks, we get to hear the terrorist’s side of the gorey story.
The Paks must be eyeball deep in this,,,
India could very well go to war over this,,,
We’ll see...
I am all confused. isn’t that the west coast? I am thinking Bengal is west coast. Sheesh! Shows what I know of India.
My brother is in Goa. Yes that was a portuguese colony from 14th century to the 1980’s
Stay safe
Its AMANPOUR ! I Hated the way she covered the afghan war !
BTW. My sister in law is from Calcutta.
The Goans ran her and Brother out of business because she wand he were not Goan
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“Deaths in Mumbai ‘terror’ attacks”
PHOTO CAPTION: “A policeman supports an elderly man after assailants opened fire at a Mumbai railway station [Reuters]”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “At least 80 people are reported to have been killed and 250 wounded in a series of gun and grenade attacks across the Indian city of Mumbai.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “
‘Westerners held hostage’
Hemant Karkare, the chief of the police anti-terrorist squad in the city, was killed during the attacks, Indian television channels reported.
Three members of staff were shot dead at the luxury Taj Mahal hotel in Colaba district, the Press Trust of India reported.
Westerners were also being held by armed men at the venue, according to media reports.
“They wanted anyone with British or American passports,” one witness at the hotel told the NDTV Indian news channel. “They wanted foreigners.”
Kashif Khusro, a journalist for the Times Now newspaper, told Al Jazeera hostages were being held at the city’s Trident hotel.
He said: “Army commanders have surrounded the luxury hotel - there are three hostages inside.
“Three of the gunmen have been shot. The gunmen inside are armed with automatic weapons.”
Another three people died in a bomb blast in a taxi in the south east of the city.”
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