some nasty stuff happening...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7751160.stm

not good at all it seems, from twitter close to the scene:

http://twitter.com/gsik

"The terrorists apparently sought victims with British or American passports"

source http://www.mahalo.com/Mumbai_Terrori...s#guide_note-1

I stayed at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel for 5 days two weeks ago The England cricket team were staying there too.

There was security there, with metal detectors and occasional sniffer dogs, but it was all very relaxed and not sringent, I don't think there would have been much they could have done to stop this though.

Am just too shocked, haven't felt so sad and tearful in a long time

It's horrific.

They were hunting them down.

It makes me SO ANGRY. How can young men justify doing this? I've been crying reading the news. WHo do these people think they are that they have the right to take innocent civilian lives? WHo the f'ck is teaching them that this is ok?

The police sound like they really got stuck in and have lost 11 to gunfire so far. It was a bloody battle, in the middle of a bloody hotel. In a peaceful country.

Need to stop now, can feel and angry rant coming on.

are you family there? hope not

Apart from parents and in-laws, entire extended family. I was born there. Luckily, most of them retired, also the attacks took place late in the evening.

In the '93 blasts, there was a bomb blast in the building close to where I was working. I saw them carrying the casualties and all that loud wailing. Can never forget that. .

That's a real shocker.

I've eaten (as I am a foreigner so it is par for the course) in Leopold's on quite a few occassions.

:-(

oh indie, this is awful...prayers that everyone is ok...

MM, xx

Truly awful.
This madness when will it stop ????

It wont stop and will get worse and worse, Bush bloody started this crap off with his personal vendetta's and will walk away from it leaving a more dangerous place to live.

A bit unfair to blame this on either Bush but no doubt of the anti Brit and Anti American basis - this has been simmering for some time.

Unfair to blame either BUSH? What planet are you on??!!

Ok yes there has always been fractions of fundementalism in Islam but it never extended into the west because we didnt do anything to warrant intervention.........

Also lets put it in another way......the arms they are using to kill those poor people in India where do you think they came from......

Who armed al qaeda (Osama specifically as the term al qaeda is a made up bullcrap term but is well known to everyone) and trained him...........

Who's profitting from all the shit thats happening in Afghanistan......

Bush used the bullcrap excuse of Weapons of mass destruction to wage his personal war....... all for his daddy....

And now looks whats happened, we are all living in fear.....

We are all being targetted for a war that isnt ours and innocents are being killed......

Are you still at school? You seem to have a very immature point of view.

I agree that some people are being targetted in a war - not 'for a war' - that is not ours. That is called terrorism. Nothing to do with Bush. I suspect the weapons will be Eastern European and not provided by Bush , his relatives or any American organisation - that allegation of complicity is not helpful to your point.

Terrorism and fundamentalism are just not the same things.