I agree, this has the prints of AQ all over it. I remember the attacks in Spain, Spanish media were saying it was ETA at first, when it was obvious it was AQ then too. They finally came around and said AQ. And soon we’ll find out it was AQ in India as well.
It’s the MO of AQ that we have become all too familiar with.
Well-coordinated ; simultaneous; several sites at once; targeting foreigners. Ruthless and indiscriminate (hospitals, for God’s sake!). Insider help. Etc.
And now, hostages. NDTV is saying at both hotels, the Taj and the Trident. Commando forces have been sent in to smoke them out. Unfortunately, hostages, too, will die in the rescue.
May God have mercy on them.