CNN had a Rabbi (Shalom someone) who said that the baby Moishe had been reunited with his family (not sure what family refers to here) - also that it is Moishe's birthday tomorrowSingha wrote:poor child. he is too young to remember his parents ever.
It was in a news broadcast. No link unfortunatelyarun wrote:[
Jagan,
Thanks. May I request you for the CNN link?
On the other hand, would you be willing to risk your life to protect him?p_saggu wrote:
Notice this soldier's hand which is on the trigger - muscles all taught. He WILL FIRE in an instant if he feels the need.
Man This is real stuff !!! Awesome - Feels proud to be an Indian ! A soldier willing to risk his life for us, Projecting power the way he is. Salute to you O soldier.
Hoping and praying that the change is permanent and he doesnt go back to his DDM mode once the dust settles...krish.pf wrote:"We have cut off the Pak foreign Minister due to the predictability of his comments."
"His comments and his tone was just not right."
Arnab (Times now)
Good Job..
EDITED - NO RANTSAbhijit N wrote:Way to go!Now NSG has come out and slapped a few idiots
Yes.asprinzl wrote:On the other hand, would you be willing to risk your life to protect him?
Avram
that suggests another 11 or so unaccounted for. what happened to those at cama hospital?SSridhar wrote:11 terrorists killed, 1 caught and another on the loose in the Taj yet.
Supposedly those were the ones who killed Salaskar et al.. took his Qualis, shot at ppl, went down to Metro, shot some more. Hijacked the Sokda, and were killed at Chowpatty.Lalmohan wrote:that suggests another 11 or so unaccounted for. what happened to those at cama hospital?SSridhar wrote:11 terrorists killed, 1 caught and another on the loose in the Taj yet.
I was watching the segment where spec-ops troops dropped down from the choppers on to the roof of the Jewish center. From their movement in the immediate thereafter, I sensed that they did not have good intelligence on the lay-out of the building which slowed their movement. I gathered from my Israeli counterparts that these guys are well trained including by FBI CT/HRT and by Israelis among others.p_saggu wrote:I think they (the US and Israel) may want to help out in the equipment front. These buggers have denied most of the most sensitive stuff that our commandos required.
Perhaps some of that heat seeking scopes that can see through walls stuff that you see all over hollywood - Stuff that makes life easier for the hero kinda thingies.
So far as the action itself is concerned, Patriotism apart - No nation and certainly not a nation the size of India allows foreigners in to run the show in domestic ground; Only our guys can perform adequately enough because of their familiarity with language, locations, building types etc.
Besides that kid, there WAS a White Female between 25-30 and old Indian Lady who must have been the maid.milindj wrote:CNN had a Rabbi (Shalom someone) who said that the baby Moishe had been reunited with his family (not sure what family refers to here) - also that it is Moishe's birthday tomorrowSingha wrote:poor child. he is too young to remember his parents ever.
CR , there is some truth . will post later on abt this , once all this is over.CRamS wrote:How much truth is there to this initial drumbeat that US/UK nationals were targetted? Given that bulk of those killed in the hotels were Indians, its clear ISI instructed the pigs not to harm westerners lest they invite western wrath. I wish someone in the DDM would present this kind of analysis. Imagine a hotel in Times Square were attacked by such pigs, and most of the dead were Americans with say Indians let go; you think CNN et. all, wouldn't have analyzed the dicken out of this?
Well Asprinzl,I cannot but make another observation. Whats up with the myriad different uniforms and camos? In one pic I see a guy wearing an over sized helmet which reminded me of the movie Space Balls. I assume that the security services in India are really suffering from serious neglect by either their superiors in the security services or by their political masters or by both.
15 bodies seen in single room in Taj: Commando
Mumbai (PTI): The terrorists who struck at Taj Mahal hotel operated with ease and showed no remorse and fired at anyone who moved, a top marine commando said, adding he saw 12 to 15 dead bodies in a single room at the luxury premises.
Giving an account of the commando raid at the besieged Taj, the leader of Indian Navy's elite Marine Commandos (MARCOS) on Friday said his team saw about 50 dead bodies scattered through the hotel during the flush out operation. "12 to 15 dead bodies" were seen in one single room, he said.
"They were the kind of people with no remorse — anybody and whomsoever came in front of them they fired," the unidentified masked commando whose face was disguised in a black scarf and sunglasses told reporters.
The account by the commando, who battled terrorists room-to-room in the hotel, was the first of the fighting to be given by a member of the elite operations unit since their operations began in the wee hours of Thursday.
A Mauritius national's identity card was recovered from the rucksack of a terrorist who escaped from a hotel room, he said, adding the recovered rucksack also contained Chinese made hand grenades, seven ammunition magazines, 400 spare rounds of ammunition, seven credit cards of different banks, dry rations and $1,200 and Rs 6,840.
He said the commandos had been hampered by not knowing the layout of the 400 rooms in the hotel and that the exchanges of fire had taken place in darkness.
But, he said the terrorists who were hurling grenades and firing from different floors and could not be seen because of the darkness and were "operating with ease."
Indicating that the terrorists had done a recce of the targeted landmarks before their attack, the MARCOS leader said it was because of their knowledge of the building that the terrorists were able to to strike at will.
The commando said the assault team had noticed only three to four terrorists, who were probably operating from different floors, as they were very well versed with the topography of the Taj hotel, where they were holed up for nearly 40 hours.
He said the commandos could have got the terrorists but for the presence of many guests.
"The bodies were lying strewn here and there. There was blood all over and in trying to avoid the casualty of those civilians, we had to be that much more careful," he said.
The guerrillas would have needed training to fire the weapons they used, he said, adding "Definitely it appears not everybody can fire the AK series of weapons." AK-47 rifles were amogn teh weapons used by the terrorists.
Describing the physique of terrorists, the MARCOS leader said they were not of a "big built" and were below thirty years of age.
"They were wearing T-shirts and looked to be below 30 years and were of normal built," he said.
The MARCOS leader said the team had to face a problem in dealing with the terrorists inside the hotel as they did not know much about the building and had to take the help of the hotel staff to operate there.
"We had to find our way out as we did not know the layout of Taj. The hotel staff helped us to find our way inside there," he said.
The team could not even get access to the CCTV monitoring room that could have helped it in finding the exact location of the terrorists.
"When we tried to enter the CCTV room, it was full of smoke and entering it was not possible and terrorists were also continuing with their fire," the team leader said.
The MARCOS leader said terrorists were taking advantage of the darkness inside the hotel and continued firing whereas they had to move ahead with caution to avoid civilian casualties inside there.
"They were firing all over and people were getting killed. We were also firing back at them but we had to be careful as civilian casualties are to be avoided," he added.
