According to CNN and SKY NEWS' photos, those gunmen are so young, only around 20. For me hor, they were like gunmen who held AK-47s and shot like playing screen games. Wonder if they know what they were doing.
The central government said there are 125 dead and 327 injured.
Mumbaikars are voicing complaints about the lack of local police to get intelligence infomation. Later they confirmed the gunmen entered Mumbai through the sea, and they killed a boatman.
So many news on this attack out there. But one caught my attention. CNN's Tweeting The Terror.
If you're that lazy to click on it..
Have you heard about Twitter? Bet you did. Or maybe sort of?
Every 5 seconds, there were about 80 messages/tweets to Twitter.com via SMS with updates on the attacks. Some even sent request finding blood donors to hospital in Mumbai where patients were so needing them. Besides, some Tweeters also helped transcribing the list of dead and injured which was then posted online.
This Twitter thing, had information and updates even faster than TV/radio.
Some who were trapped in Mumbai, or who were nearby, blogged on Twitter about what was happening.
One person from one of the targeted hotels tweeted "Mumbai terrorists are asking hotel reception for rooms of American citizens and holding them hostage on one floor."
There were also rumors, mostly on the credibility of those messages and photos and videos. And the Indian govenment was also asking tweeters to stop tweeting to avoid compromising security efforts.
Then maybe someone suggested that terrorists were using Twitters to to gain infomation about Mumbai's security forces, people started posting things like "die, die, die, if you're reading this".
But the bad side? For the whole hour after that, people started tweeting in ANYthing. Even estimated things by themselves, some tweets said there were 1,000 dead and injured.
After all, Twitter is like a live update tool. People got news, tweet it, another saw it, retweet it...
If you can imagine the whole thing, an awesome flow.
Not awesome attack! Is awesome-ness of technology, remember? The world is flaaat.
Look how terrorists used the technology like you and me:
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"So who are the terrorists? That too is unclear. A group calling itself the "Deccan Mujahideen" sent an email to news organizations early Thursday morning claiming responsibility for the attacks. Two of the terrorists spoke to a local news channel, India TV, to air their grievances: "When so many of us were killed, who did anything for us?" a man called Shadullah asked, referring to anti-Muslim riots in northern India in 1992 and 1993. He said he was among seven people holding hostages at the Oberoi but didn't make any specific demands, other than for the release of other "mujahideen" jailed in India and for an end to the persecution of Muslims."
From TIME, here.
A latest news posted in TIME, saying that India's Muslims is in crisis. What kind of?
"A gunman, holed up in Mumbai's Oberoi Trident hotel where some 40 people had been taken hostage, told an Indian news channel that the attacks were revenge for the persecution of Muslims in India. "We love this as our country but when our mothers and sisters were being killed, where was everybody?" he asked via telephone. No answer came. But then he probably wasn't expecting one."
Muslims in India are said to be brought up by a sense of injustice. They have shorter life-spans, worse health, lower literacy levels etc. So after this attack.. will they face worse treatment?
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