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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 January 2025. Terrorist attacks in India "26/11" redirects here. For the date, see November 26. 2008 Mumbai attacks Part of terrorism in India Places of the attacks Location Mumbai, India Leopold Café Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel Oberoi Trident Cama Hospital Nariman ...
12 to 15 bodies recovered from the Taj by naval commandos. 28 Nov: 19:30: Fresh explosions and gunshots at Taj Hotel. 28 Nov: 20:30: Report that one terrorist remains at the Taj. 29 Nov: 03:40 – 04:10: Reports of five explosions at the Taj. 29 Nov: 04:20: The Taj Mahal Hotel is reported to be completely under government control. [15] 29 Nov ...
On the night of 26 November 2008, several buildings in South Mumbai were attacked. [22] One of the buildings where hostages were held was the iconic 100-year-old Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, AC(P) was the team commander of 51 Special Action Group (51 SAG) deployed at the Taj hotel to rescue the hostages. He entered the ...
Between 2007 and 2008, Headley made five trips to Mumbai, scouting local landmarks where LeT terrorists would carry out the multi-pronged attack. Headley stayed at the Taj Palace Hotel—identified by Iqbal and Mir as their main target—and surveyed the building using his ISI training, shooting hours of video during in-house tours. [37]
The Siege: The Attack on the Taj is a non-fiction book by Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy. [1] It is an account of the 2008 attacks on The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai, India, during the night of 26 November 2008. [2] [3] [4] It presents an insider view of the attacks based on extensive research by the authors.
Security forces handed back control of the Taj Mahal Hotel to the Taj group on 1 December 2008, and work on its repairs began that same day. [2] Celebrated artist M.F. Hussain, whose art was destroyed in the attacks, has agreed to replace the paintings with a series that will condemn the attack. Hussain plans this series as a tribute to the ...
An ISI officer known as Major Iqbal gave Headley $25,000 in cash in 2006 to scout out the target sites in Mumbai, helped him arrange a communications system for the attack, and oversaw a model of the Taj Mahal Hotel so that gunmen could know their way inside the target, according to Headley's testimony to Indian authorities.
Kasab reportedly told the police that they wanted to replicate the Islamabad Marriott hotel attack, and reduce the Taj Hotel to rubble, replicating the 9/11 attacks in India. [5] Kasab and his accomplice Khan, then aged 25, attacked the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus) railway station