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Mumbai Attack
26/11 Mumbai Attacks

Terrorism can be found all over the world. Terrorists are from various nationalities. Terrorist have committed several attacks and have caused several people to lose their loved ones. Anyone can be a victim of terrorism. In 2008 Mumbai attacks, there were eight more attacks in financial capital of India, Mumbai, including 26th November 2008. It was one of major attack from the eight attacks in Mumbai. The attacks, which widespread global condemnation, began on Wednesday, 26 November 2008, and lasted until Saturday, 29 November 2008, died 166 people, and wounding at least 308. The eight of the attacks happened in South Mumbai: at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, the Oberoi Trident, the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower, Leopold Cafe, Cama Hospital (a women and children's hospital), the Nariman House Jewish community center, the Metro Cinema, and St. Xavier's College.

Taj Hotel Palace, and the Centers received warning in October, United States Intelligence Agencies warned the chairperson of the company that owns the hotel, Ratan Tata that there will be a terrorist attack on the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. As a result Security was increased, but security was removed soon after. On 18 November, Indian Intelligence Agencies intercepted a satellite phone call to a leader of Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist organization, which revealed plans for a sea borne attack. The first events were detailed around 8:00 p.m. Indian Standard Time (IST) on November 26th , when 10 men in inflatable speedboats came ashore at two locations in Colaba. They reportedly told local Marathi-speaking fishermen who asked them who they were, they said, "mind their own business" before they split up and headed two different ways. The fishermen report this imformation to police and received little response. The boat carrying around ten of them with several large bags docked at Macchimar Nagar, in Mumbai's Cuffe Parade neighborhood, where six of the men disembarked and the rest

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