Indian commandos killed the last remaining gunmen holed up at a luxury Mumbai hotel

[seemslikeadream]

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MUMBAI, India (AP) — Indian commandos killed the last remaining gunmen holed up at a luxury Mumbai hotel Saturday, ending a 60-hour rampage through India's financial capital by suspected Islamic militants that left more than 150 people dead and rocked the nation. Orange flames and black smoke engulfed the landmark 400-room Taj Mahal hotel after dawn Saturday as Indian forces ended the siege in a hail of gunfire, just hours after elite commandos stormed a Jewish center and found six hostages dead.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7756068.stm

Indian officials have said the siege at Mumbai's Taj Mahal hotel is over, after the last few militants were killed.

Police commissioner Hassan Gafoor said the hotel was now under their control. "All combat operations are over. All the terrorists have been killed."

Commandos began a new assault early on Saturday as fighting that had claimed at least 150 lives entered a third day.

Commando chief JK Dutt told media three militants had been killed but his men still had to check all the hotel rooms.

Mr Dutt, head of the elite national Security Guards commando force, said a body seen thrown out of a window of the landmark hotel was that of one of the militants, Reuters reports.

Speaking to media outside the hotel, he appealed for any guests still hiding in the building to make their presence known and warned that small explosions might be heard as the clearing operation continued.

[Dorian Gray]

1. Good

I hope that if there is anyone left hiding out, they come out now, safe and sound. How horrifyingly sad.

[Cleita]

2. I hope they don't dwell on this Islamic militants thing and just the fact that

they are radical terrorists no different that terrorists of other religions like IRA militants in Ireland. I remember years back when Sikhs were murdered because they were painted as the bad guys because of the terrorist actions of a few. They don't need a repeat of that.

[kittyholmes2]

4. Remind me

when the IRA killed 150 in a 3 day period. Until recently I wasn't very political or aware o;f world news.

[seemslikeadream]

5. yea like that starving the Irish off their land thing, how many died then?

[Joe Fields]

6. stop the b.s., please.

plenty of Irish on both sides that killed for the sake of killing. When you kill innocent men, women and children, then you lose any credibility for any cause you may have and you become nothing more than a bloodthirsty barbarian. Spare me the politics!

[seemslikeadream]

9. Share me the politics?

uh, your on political discussion board.



5 million btw

[magellan]

3. Gunmen? From the mentality, I'd call them boys with guns

...who fancied themselves Rambo and put no value on life outside their own, from what I've read. They got what was coming to them. It's just sad that it came at such a high cost to innocent people.

The world has to find a new way to empower young men without it requiring bullets and bombs.

[seemslikeadream]

8. delete wrong place

[dailykoff]

7. Convenient.

Now they won't be around to tell us who put them up to it, but I have a pretty good idea. We've seen this movie way too many times already.