Mumbai Terrorism

Mumbai Victim Struggles To Recover, Does Not Know Parents Killed (VIDEO)

CNN News | Posted 01.01.2009 | World


A 13-year-old boy wounded by attacks in a train station during the three-day siege on Mumbai is struggling to recover at the hospital. Yet no one want...

Thanksgiving Text Messages from Captives at Taj Provided More Reasons to Give Thanks

Robert Creamer | Posted 12.31.2008 | Politics


Robert Creamer

Two of my wife's constituents had been holed up in their hotel room at the Taj Hotel in Mumbai. They had been there for over a day avoiding the terrorist gunmen that still stalked its corridors.

Mother India

Sharon Salzberg | Posted 12.31.2008 | Style


Sharon Salzberg

I had gone to India as so many had, to find a spiritual teacher, to find a meditation method -- really to find myself. It became my spiritual home. For years I couldn't imagine living anywhere else.

Mumbai Buzzing With Criticism and Praise

Tahmineh Khajotia | Posted 12.31.2008 | Politics


Tahmineh Khajotia

Forget who is behind the attacks in Mumbai and what they wanted. As the days go on, Mumbaikars are angry at how our city and our country allowed something like this to happen.

Al Qaeda's Kashmir Conspiracy

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 12.31.2008 | Politics


Amb. Marc Ginsberg

U.S. intelligence officials are increasingly concerned that Al Qaeda may be attempting to foment as much turmoil as possible on the subcontinent to force India and Pakistan into a nuclear war.

Mumbai Death Toll Likely To Reach 300

Telegraph | Damien McElroy and Rahul Bedi in Bombay, and Andrew Alderson | Posted 12.31.2008 | World


Piles of bodies were found yesterday after commandos stormed the Taj Mahal Palace hotel, the last of three buildings that terrorists had occupied in t...

Saving Indian Secularism from Divide and Rule Politics

Meenakshi Ravi | Posted 12.30.2008 | Politics


Meenakshi Ravi

India may be at the beginning of a dangerous path towards the de-secularization of a country whose stance on religious tolerance has been one of its most praiseworthy and noble traits.

The Mumbai Attacks: Implications for Kashmir

Mohsin Mohi-Ud Din | Posted 12.30.2008 | Politics


Mohsin Mohi-Ud Din

As a Muslim, as a Kashmiri-American, as a human being, I am outraged at the actions of the terrorists who have killed more than a 150 innocent people and injured hundreds.

Reflections On Mumbai

James Freedman | Posted 12.30.2008 | Politics


James Freedman

World Editorial Roundup for November 29, 2008.

Mumbai Massacre: More Coverage = More Attacks.

Mira Veda | Posted 12.30.2008 | Politics


Mira Veda

The ruthless terrorist attacks aimed at high profile luxury establishments in Mumbai were specifically orchestrated towards Britons and Americans to get premium media coverage.

Militants Visited Mumbai Before The Attacks

Reuters | Posted 12.29.2008 | World


NEW DELHI, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Several of the Islamist militants who attacked Mumbai this week visited the city a few months ago and lived there for a ...

Top Professionals, Businessmen Killed In Five-Star Carnage

The Times of India | Posted 12.29.2008 | World


As the smoke cleared from the two south Mumbai hotels and the commandos secured these properties, friends and family were confronted with the painful ...

Indian Police: Mumbai Seige Over

BBC News | Posted 12.29.2008 | World


Indian media have quoted a commando chief saying the siege at Mumbai's Taj Mahal hotel is over, after an assault to dislodge the last few militants. ...

Obama's First Foreign Policy Test

Washington Independent | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 12.29.2008 | Politics


President-elect Barack Obama campaigned on deploying additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan -- and, potentially, taking military action in Pakistan -- ...

Mumbai Fighting Narrows To Taj Hotel

nytimes.com | KEITH BRADSHER and SOMINI SENGUPTA | Posted 12.29.2008 | World


The standoff in the Indian commercial capital of Mumbai narrowed to a final running battle between commandos and at least one gunman who was still roa...

US Officials: Mounting Evidence That Pakistani Group Behind Mumbai Attacks

New York Times | Mark Mazzetti | Posted 12.29.2008 | Politics


American intelligence and counterterrorism officials said Friday there was mounting evidence that a Pakistani militant group based in Kashmir, most li...

Mumbai Hostages: The Long Term Effects

Michelle Renee | Posted 12.29.2008 | Living


Michelle Renee

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder was something I had never even known about until I was experiencing it while I watched my daughter emotionally disappear right along with me.

The Taj is Burning

Mallika Chopra | Posted 12.28.2008 | Politics


Mallika Chopra

These are the places -- the Taj, the Oberoi Hotel, Cafe Leopold -- that are not touched by the religious tensions, the poverty, the harsh realities of a city -- a country, region and world -- that has extremes of every kind.

Indian-Americans Track Down Loved Ones In Mumbai

AP | DORIE TURNER | Posted 12.28.2008 | World


ATLANTA — Angela Mulchandami was relieved to see her mother made it aboard a flight from Mumbai to Atlanta Thursday morning. A day earlier, Mum...

Deepak Chopra on Mumbai: Too Controversial for CNN?

Michelle Haimoff | Posted 12.28.2008 | Politics


Michelle Haimoff

Deepak Chopra went on CNN Wednesday night to give his take on the Mumbai attacks and how to prevent similar attacks in the future, but producers cut Chopra off when he started to get too controversial.

Maximum Terror in Mumbai: Confusion Reigns

Shuja Nawaz | Posted 12.28.2008 | Politics


Shuja Nawaz

The attacks in Mumbai have produced scores of deaths, though what is scarier is the possibility that this incident may spell danger for India-Pakistan relations at a time when a much-needed thaw seems to be emerging.

Indian Authorities Likely To Blame Outsiders For Attacks

New York Times | Posted 12.28.2008 | World


MUMBAI, India -- Indian commandos rescued some hostages in raids on Thursday as standoffs continued against heavily armed militants who a day earlier ...

Victims Speak Of Night Of Terror In Mumbai

AP | RAMOLA TALWAR BADAM | Posted 12.27.2008 | World


MUMBAI, India — Western visitors and Mumbai residents shuddered as they spoke of a night of terror, ducking under tables at luxury five-star hot...

The New Wars and Cities: Something Is Changing

Saskia Sassen | Posted 12.27.2008 | Politics


Saskia Sassen

There is a deep transformation afoot -- cities seem to be losing the capacity they have long had to triage conflict. Today the search for national security may well become a source for urban insecurity.

The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower in Mumbai

Alison Stein Wellner | Posted 12.27.2008 | Living


Alison Stein Wellner

This hotel is a landmark, as the people on TV are saying. But what they're not saying is that it opened in 1903 because the best hotel in town at that time wouldn't allow Indians to enter -- it was whites only.