
| Font Size |



"All operations are over. The NSG has formally reported that the operations are complete and now Taj, Oberoi and Nariman House are being sanitised. There are no more terrorists now in Mumbai. All have been liquidated or captured alive," M L Kumawat, Special Secretary in the Union Home Ministry, said in Delhi.
The magnitude of the attack by suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba elements, who are believed to have come by the sea route from Karachi, could be gauged from the statement of Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra R R Patil who said with the ammunition the terrorists had, they could have killed 5,000 people.
NSG Chief J K Dutt, who announced the end of ‘Operation Black Tornado’ in which his commandos took on the heavily-armed ultras, said in all they eliminated eight terrorists--four in Taj, two in Trident-Oberoi and two in Nariman House. Another terrorist was killed by the Mumbai police on Wednesday night while one was captured alive.
The elimination of the four terrorists in Taj came on Saturday morning after intense battle between the commandos, who believed there was a lone gunman holding out, and the terrorists who kept exploding grenades at periodic intervals.
The security forces rescued 250 people in Oberoi, 300 in Taj and 12 families of 60 people in Nariman House.
Dutt said five bodies were recovered alongwith those of some terrorists in Taj and there was indication that these five were killed in the initial part of the hostage crisis.


Discuss this story on expressindia forums
|
|


Pleae don't say simply Muslim and Pakistani Terrorist. Indian govt. and police and army having readymade answer whenever something happend in india. What happend in Malegone it's done by a hindu terror group but when in the starting everybody said it's pakistan and semi. That's why try stop and find some way to control this and stop blaming pakistan and unknown and innocent muslims.This is for Media also. before publish them they should realise everything. Even this attach may have link with hindu terror (malegone group, beucase one think everybody noticed particular police officers only shot dead). Indian govt. please don't sleep
This is yet another cowardise act by the immediatae neighbour and it is high time for them to stop this proxy war against India or it will boomarag. That is not too far.
sir, with the latest terrorist attack, indian govt should stop pakistanis to enter in india for any type iof visit and if they are alowing them to india the authorities should get al;l the details of stay,purpose of visit and everithing like what other countries doing before issue a entry permit/visa, and each and every hotels are important locations should be controlled and before getting to the entrance lots of counter checking should be done by severe authorities without any type of negligence which is done in all international hotels in foreign countries.and much more precausions to take care of each and every citizen of india. Indian govt should take all mesures to eliminate pakistan and terrorist groups from the world and we should work together to make a peceful india and punish the attackers inch by inch they should know the pain of indian citizen. pls dont give any chance of terror to be enter in india. jai hind.
It is easy to blame government but we must understand their constraints and stresses. Great job commandos and government. And I request opposition come to terms with government or leave dirty communal politics.
High time we take politicians to task, else we will have nothing left - we will be the next Afghanistan - everything in ruins. Wake up,Hang MM Singh and Shivraj Patil, S gandhi along with the terrorists. Our politicians are as criminal as they terrosits are
I dont understand what the objective they (terrorists) achieved by randomly killing innocent people. It is also important to note that many muslims were also killed by these so-called "Pakistani Terrorists". We Indians (Hindu-Muslim-Christians) must unite in this hour of crisis and should not allow any political mileage to politicians like Narendra Modi etc.
What to say about our Gujarat CM Narinder Modi - Wah bhai Wah, he comes out and started his campaign when the full country is under an attack where one has to think about his survival , What a shame Mr. Modi for your information we dont want you in Mumbai - what did you come for and what did you do - gave those 1 core ..thats what you did..hahahahah - joke isnt it? ... I wish the terrroist first attack you,.its a shame a blessed shame that we have ministers like you. Then comes our yet another joker says what is congress doing oye were you dreaming whent he terrorist attacked on thge parliment, check your statements before you open your dirty Hinduvata mouth your guys are not fit to be on a seat where you people are, not forgetting our MMS so called ZERO useliss person that he is tell me Mr. Raj .. you tell me what will you comment after a week .. I know what you will say . i am sorry but you peope need such opinion - try something else to tighten your sea
Does anyone know how many total terrorists were there? How many were killed? How many captured? And...How many escaped?? Especially the ones who were at the railway station must have escaped and blended with the rest of the popoulation. Where are they?? Are they still out there??? Do we have reasons for concerns? Let's not declare victory yet, until they ALL are accounted for. And..what about the "mother ship" and the speed boats??Any answers Anyone?? The authorities need to provide answers to these questions.......and people need to be vigilant and careful, or the situation may again happen at another major hotel in Mumbai a few days from now.....
If our Sardarji PM and his Italian mistress has any shame left, they need to destroy all terrorist training camps inside POK and Pak and ready for a decisive war against Pak. It’s useless to talk “peace” with mad dogs. We must learn to speak the language these terrorists understand and that is the language of force. USA and West may make movies and talk great things about Gandhi but when they deal with Bin Laden, Al-quida or terrorism they use brute force first. Our political leadership not only destroyed the country but irreversibly damaged whatever self-respect and dignity we had so far.
Our Commondos did fantastic work. The biggest challenge was risk of collateral damage. Our police, though ill equipped were lead by the senior officers. They may be ill equipped but showed the resolve to taken on the challenges head on.It is too bad to see the politicians are using these people for thier personal work. Can we not have a white paper on how many police were deployed for VIP security visiting Mumbai? The PM visited Mumbai 2 days ago..with 40 cars in his escort!!!
We generally have a tendency to indulge in blame game instead of seriously considering measures to have adequate system in place to counter terror attacks be it from within or engineered from outside. We do have the resources to do it. But the political will is not visible. The hotels attacked in Bombay were all symbols of India's rising economic power and such properties needed to be protected. We also need to have separate law and order set up for each Metros and all the upcoming cities besides strengtheing coastal security where the personnel should be provided with most modern equipment and resources to have round the clock check on such activities. As for political parties, there were some unnecessary critisisms on the Melagoan probe and one Sanyasini politician even offered ticket to the fraud Pragya Singh to contest elections. See, one of the most efficient Police officer, the ATS chief got killed in the recent. Now what these people has got to say on this?
pls check thoroughly before blaming other countries - may be bombay terrorist act also have masterminded by any hindu colonel like samjohota express
I have been reading lot's articles written on the great hero Raj saheb thakare, who went to jail for killing biharis. I feel there is no difference between him
With great difficulty and after fighting for almost 62 hours the operation was finally successful and all the terrorist either died or arrested. However, what is more important to note that they were almost knowing everything in the hotel and must have either worked or stayed in the hotel to know the complete information about hotel. The security agencies/management have completely ignored this resulting into a situation like they were playing in their home town. Our country is largest exporter of software and there afer softwares available which are useful for monitoring the situations outside. Proper security/software must be installed at all the entrances of hotels to enable them to control and over come situations like this. Secondly even managements must be careful in ascertaining who is doing what activity to enable to work proactively.
Bombay police once upon a time good, but the later subsequent governments changed them lot. that is the problem in Democracy especially only in India (prob. same for other countries except western countries). This congress, NCP gov. taught cops again corruption, biased investigations etc., so they'll mould according to gov. rules. Entire India Supreme court should rule out all police in all states are independent, no pressures from Gov. will clear lot of headaches. If you see in AP, the anti-terror pollice are efficient when Naidu's gov. but when Y.S. Reddy came to power, he shifted the efficient officer from Old city, just for the sake of minority votes. Then MIM of muslim legue helpted anti-national elements, and Hyderabad paid price, experienced two horrific bombings, one riot etc., So entire credit to current congress gov. and corrupted YSR. He also removed POTA type rule, now old city in Hyderabad becomes worser than Karachi. But congress gov. expects these muslim votes getspower
where was mns chief during shoot out?
pakistan - A land of terrorists, run by terrorists and want the whole world to be terrorists
All muslims should think that what is in thier religion that makes so many muslims so violent - almost animals.
Our salute to the brave BSG, Naval and Army commondos to finally bringing this whole barbaric episode into some conclusion. However, it is difficult NOT to notice the most herd like mentality of the Indian press and the most unprofessional and uncoordinated way the socalled "press" briefings conducted by the authorities - Mind you such choatic scenes are being seen around the world! Hope
After this terror attack, we do not want any religious riot as we have enough and do not want to loose any more. Hope some of the thugs have good sense in their brain.
PRANAB PACK YOUR BAGS AND GO HOME AND DONT COME TO WORK, AND HEY SONIA PACK YOUR KIDS AND GO TO ITALY GOVERNMENT WILL GIVE YOU ONE WAY TICKET, TAKE LIFE TIME VACATION, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO COUNTRY. FIRST MNS DESTROYED TOURISM AND NOW TERRORIST DESTROYED LEFT OVER, ...............RAJESH DHARIA
THE GOVERNMENT AT THE CENTRE IS MORE RESPONSIBLE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY. SINCE THEY FAILED IN THIS THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD QUIT. MOREOVER, CONGRESS IN PARTICULAR IS NOT FOR POOR AND FOR THE PEOPLE. IT IS POWER AND MONEY GREEDY AND FOR THIS THEY WILL DO ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING. THE CONGRESS IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS ACT AND THEY ARE ANSWERABLE AND FIRST THEY MUST QUIT.
The Punjab Militancy, J
A truly commendable operation from the NSG, MARCOS releasing all hostages and ending this siege. If the political head in India has the least bit of concern for the populace they need to do some or all of the following: a) Give sweeping powers, funds to RAW b) Create a federal department to tackle interlnal terrorism (headed by the armed forces) since the Home Ministry is a total dummy c) Create a separate ATS type intelligence/police setup team in every state to manage and co-ordinate initial response to such attacks since these now have become sophisticated d) Pre-emptively and pro-actively eliminate heavy-weight terrorist targets be it anywhereIf some or all of these provisions exist currently, for God-sakes, implement them
Congratulations to all security forces conducting most sophisticated terrorists strike operation in the world! We all slute to our forces and government of India for tremendous job.