Officials say a gunman in the Mumbai attacks called a TV station while holding hostages at a Jewish outreach center. Commandos dropped over the building's roof in a rescue operation. (By Siddhartha Babaji -- Associated Press)From Washington Post:
Officials Say Two Mumbai Attackers Voiced Numerous Grievances
NEW DELHI, Dec. 15 -- During the three-day siege of Mumbai, an Indian television news anchor took a call from one of the suspected attackers, a young man who identified himself as Imran Babar.
"You're surrounded. You're definitely going to die. Why don't you surrender?" the anchor at India TV implored him.
The voice on the other end of the line, sounding robotic, rattled off a list of grievances: the 2002 riots in Gujarat state during which more than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed; the 1992 demolition of the centuries-old Babri mosque by Hindu mobs; and India's control over part of the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.
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