The Burning Mumbai…

A review of 26/11 terror strike on India’s Financial CapitalBy:-

Dvizma Sinha

26th -29th November 2008

A Rubber Dinghy approaches Mumbai Shoreline…. 26/11 2020 hours

The Attacks Begin…

The attacks begin at 9:30 pm with firing at Café Leopold a popular restaurant frequented by foreigners in the Colaba area of south Mumbai by two armed men

Café Leopold, Colaba…

Two men armed with AK 47 open fire in the passenger hall of CST railway station .Armed with obsolete riffles the railway police missed their target. 58 dead and a 108 wounded

The Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus

Bombing and firing started in the Taj Mahal Hotel, a world renowned stay of prominent people all across the globe…

The Taj Mahal Hotel….

The taxi that left the train station an hour ago blows onto bits killing the driver and a passenger

Another cab explodes at the docks killing 3 and leaving 19 injured

A bomb goes off at a petrol pump near Leopold Café

Oberoi Trident, a five star hotel and the Nariman house, a Jewish center are also under attack

2217 hrsMore Deaths…

The Cama Hospital Firing…

The Cama Hospital firing Killed three of the city’s brightest officers…Hemant Karkare,Ashok Kamte,

and Vijay Salaskar

Metro Cinema…

A major firing takes place near the metro cinema as the terrorist in the high jacked police van open fired indiscriminately injuring several people and killing two

The Kasab Arrest…Around 12:30 amNear girgaum chowpathi

A police terrorist shootout kills one terrorist and injures the other

Mohammad Ajmal Aamir Kasab was arrested.

Plea for help

The national security guards alleged terror commando unit was called for reinforcement but Mumbai had to wait till daybreak for commandos

The flaming Taj….

The Answers…

Three hours after arresting Kasab Mumbai police start questioning him

The mission was a fidayeen(sucidial). The brief given to them was to enter

Mumbai unsuspected and open indiscriminate fire, kill as many as they can, take hostages, go to higher locations, siege them, keep forces away, for as long as they can till they die.

The media insights…

The gunmen were guided by the handlers watching live news.

News channels ordered to cut the live shows.

Operation Black Tornado… Almost 200 commandos from the

national security guards finally entered the city on its knees.

By midnight of 28th guns have fallen in the Oberoi and Nariman house but the lanes around Taj still resound with gunfire.

After a prolonged shootout the commandoes were able to secure the Taj

The deathly tolls….Mumbai police had killed one terrorist and the commandoes have killed 8

Operation black tornado was over.

The 60 hour battle killed 178 and injured 309.

Slow Response

Lacked ammunition

Standard procedures

The System Failure…

Kasab Reveals…

Lashkar Camps Areas in Pakistan

500 men in Pakistan were recruited by Laskar-e-Taiba

18 months of commando training

10 of them were shortlisted to carry out attacks

On 12th Feb. 2009, the Pakistan government accepts the attack was planned and launched from its territory

Denies an official involvement The Pakistani Inter services intelligence‘s

involvement is suspected

Pakistani Acceptance…

The Recovery

Mumbai is ramping up its defenses NSG base Revising its standard procedures in crisis 26.4 million dollar modernization plan for

new weapon and equipment

Back to Normal….

The train station limped back to normalcy a few hours after it is attacked

The trident hotel and the Taj reopened after a month

Leopolds café was bustling away 4 days after the attacks…

May The souls of the Dead rest in peace…

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