taj hotel, five terrorists killed, one captured in Mumbai

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MUMBAI: As the battle against militants, who attacked prime multiple locations in Mumbai, raged on, Army today said it was preparing for a final
assault to flush out the ultras holed up in the Taj hotel. ( Watch )

"NSG is here. They are carrying out a very deliberative operation. They are trained for it and are the best in the country. I have faith in them," Major General R K Hooda, GOC, Maharashtra area told reporters here. ( Watch )

While the army will carry out the flushing-out operations in Taj hotel, the specialised commandos of the National Security guards and the Naval MARCOS will undertake operations at the Trident hotel, where it is believed that the terrorists are holding hostages.

Hooda, the seniormost Army General in Maharashtra, said operation clean-up at the Taj will start from the top floor and the personnel will carry out a room-to-room combing operation.

"There are 365 rooms to be searched. All rooms are closed. Every room has to be opened and searched thoroughly through their own drills, Hooda said.

Army is doing intervention drills by checking each rooms of the hotel. "In case the rooms are locked, we ask occupants to open it. And if they do not, army will carry out intervention drill with due care. They (personnel) are trained for this," he said.

Hooda, however, did not disclose any time frame for the operation citing operational secrecy. "Do not speculate on timing. We can't quantify it."

Asked whether his troops had any confrontations with the holed up terrorists, he said, "No engagement has taken place."

But, he said his men had come across trapped hotel guests who have bolted themselves up in their rooms and efforts were being made to tell them it was safe to come out.

Over 100 people were killed and 300 others injured in the terror attacks in a dozen areas in the metropolis.

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What? Terrorism? Don't they know that Obama was elected and that now peace must prevail because Obama is the savior of the planet? LOL