Veteran travellers Larry and Bernie Koftinoff did their best to stay calm when their 16th-floor Mumbai hotel room began filling with smoke as the streets below turned to chaos. After barricading the door, Larry smashed the Oberoi-Trident Hotel room window, allowing the terrified Kelowna couple to breathe fresh air. "They were in their room when it all happened -- they were lucky," daughter Maya Koftinoff, 24, said yesterday from Kelowna after a reassuring call from her parents.
"They just sat in their room, blockaded the door and were doing meditation when my mom looked up and saw smoke coming in so my dad smashed a window to let the smoke out.
"They looked down and could see all the people in the street and the militia with machine-guns were waving up at them. They were shocked and surprised but kept calm.
At least 125 people were killed and more than 300 wounded when terrorists fanned out across Mumbai, in a series of co-ordinated attacks Wednesday night. They struck at sites that are popular with tourists and business people, including the Oberoi and another luxury hotel.Today's so call terrorist has no geographical and and borders, they can never be called Patriot.
When Britain was ruling India, it was a term (terrorist/rebels)used for those who tried to oppose the Britain Govt in India-Even today Americans are known as little rebel by the Britishers.
It is very different when it apply to the present Islamic fundamentalist militants. For me they are not human, and they are wagging a war with whole mankind.
I don't hear any group or people taking revenge for the past colonialism of the British or the Roman Empire.
Some say they are fighting for the cause of the Palestinian. Then why they are terrorizing with someone and somewhere else.
Terrorist are sick and ignorant peoples. They believe that (taught by Cleric in Madrasa) they will get 12 virgins in heaven if they die in Jihad.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/11/28/mumbai-canadians.html
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