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Recent Work: Mumbai Terrorist Attacks

On the night of Wednesday, November 26 at least 10 well trained heavily armed men attacked Mumbai, India. After landing at a small fisherman's colony the men attacked Victoria Terminus, one of the main trainstations, Leopolds, a popular hangout for expats and locals on Colaba Causway, a hospital, and took hostages at the Orthodox Jewish Chabad House, the Taj Hotel and the Oberoi/Trident Hotel. After 60 hours close to 200 people were dead including 9 of the ten gunmen leaving Mumbai a shaken but hardened mega city.

Survivors of the terrorist attack on the Taj Hotel embrace in the dark near the Gateway of India after escaping late Wednesday night, the first day of the attacks.
   
The Taj hotel burns after grenades blasts start a fire on the top floor.
   
A soldier takes cover from automatic weapon fire outside the Taj Hotel after terrorists attacked the hotel in Mumbai India on Thursday, November 27, 2008.
     
  
Workers from the Taj Hotel in Mumbai India leave the hotel grounds after armed gunmen invaded the hotel taking hostages on Thursday, November 27, 2008.
   
Workers from the Taj Hotel in Mumbai, India wait by the Gateway of India for armed gunmen to be forced from the hotel they work in by Indian military and Mumbai Police on Thursday, November 27, 2008. 60 hours later, with many dead and the historic wing of the hotel gutted by fires the last gunman was killed by NSG commandos finaly ending the standoff on Saturdaymorning.
   
A Mumbai reporter updates the local audience as dawn brings the crisis at the Taj Hotel in Mumbai India to a second day on Thursday, November 27, 2008.Television news crews have been blamed for recklessly reporting the movements of NSG security forces and the locations of hostages inside the hotel during the attacks. New restrictions on journalists are currently be implamented by the Maharashtran government.
     
  
Mumbai fire fighters try to extinguish the flames as fire and smoke engulf the top floor of the Taj Hotel after armed gun man invaded the hotel with automatic weapons shooting hotel guests and taking hostagesin Mumbai India on Thursday, November 27, 2008.
   
Mumbai fire fighters try to extinguish the flames as fire and smoke engulf the top floor of the Taj Hotel after armed gun man invaded the hotel with automatic weapons shooting hotel guests and taking hostagesin Mumbai India on Thursday, November 27, 2008.
   
Media crowd the scene of the hostage crisis at the Taj Hotel while a hotel guest is rescued from an upper floor by Mumbai Fire Fighters and is greeted by a high level manager from the hotel.
     
  
NSG sniper commandos wait on an apartment roof across the street from the Chabad house in Mumbai, India where several jews are being held hostage by gunmen on Thursday, November 27, 2008.
   
Sniper commandos wait on an apartment roof across the street from the Chabad house in Mumbai, India where several jews are being held hostage by gunmen on Thursday, November 27, 2008.
   
Commandos with Mumbai's Rapid Action Force clear Colaba Causway of journalists and local residents to allow more troops and ambulances in to Nariman House where an armed standoff continues on Friday, November 28 2008.
     
  
Commandos with Mumbai's Rapid Action Force clear Colaba Causway of journalists and local residents to allow more troops and ambulances in to Nariman House where an armed standoff continues on Friday, November 28 2008.
   
A peice of torn paper with hebrew writing litters the street near the Nariman House where armed gunmen are holding a Hassidic Rabbi and his wife hostage in Mumbai, India on Friday November 28, 2008.
  
A NSG commando takes cover while moving around an apartment adjacent to Nariman House where hostages have taken 6 Hassidic Chabad Jews hostage.
     
  
A sniper commando share space with news cameras to view the dammage from small arms fire and a grenade on an apartment roof across the street from the Chabad house in Mumbai, India where several jews are being held hostage by gunmen on Thursday, November 27, 2008.
   
  
LEFTA loud explosion blows out the windows of the 4th floor of Nariman House, the floor that gunmen were holding hostages on in Mumbai, India on Friday, November 28 2008. RIGHTNeighborhood residents watch the drama unfold as commandos raid Nariman House where armed gunmen have taken a Hassidic Rabbi his wife, and possibly more people hostage in Mumbai, India on Friday, November 28 2008.
     
  
A ZAKA team Colaba Causway with several other Jewish men carrying large backpacks with equipment used to recover the bodies of the Jewish hostages after NSG commandos ended the standoff at Nariman House in Mumbai, India on Friday, November 28 2008.
   
The funeral of ATS (Anti Terrorism Squad) Chief Hemant Karkare in Mumbai, India on Saturday, November 29, 2008. Mr. Karkare was killed during the first night of fighting with terrorists in Mumbai, India.
   
The funeral of ATS (Anti Terrorism Squad) Chief Hemant Karkare in Mumbai, India on Saturday, November 29, 2008. Mr. Karkare was killed during the first night of fighting with terrorists in Mumbai, India.
     
  
The funeral of ATS (Anti Terrorism Squad) Chief Hemant Karkare in Mumbai, India on Saturday, November 29, 2008. Mr. Karkare was killed during the first night of fighting with terrorists in Mumbai, India.
   
The funeral of ATS (Anti Terrorism Squad) Chief Hemant Karkare in Mumbai, India on Saturday, November 29, 2008. Mr. Karkare was killed during the first night of fighting with terrorists in Mumbai, India.
   
Mumbaikers rally at the Gateway of India after the terrorist attacks on Mumbai, India.
     
  
Mumbai Police investigate the Chabad House after a three day stand off with armed gunmen ended with all six hostages killed in Mumbai, India on Saturday, November 29th 2008.
   
A Belgian Consulate representative that refused to be identified leaves the JJ Morgue after identifying a Belgian citizen's body in Mumbai, India on Saturday, November 29th 2008.
   
An American tourist and her husband visit the site of the Nariman House hostage crisis in Mumbai, India on Sunday, November 30th 2008. Barbara Sonnenblick and her husband Paul were visiting their son, Eddie from their homes in San Francisco, California and had just returned from a short trip from Goa when the crisis started on Wednesday.
     
  
LEFT:Mr. Raflles Beaus Codes lies in his hospital bed at the Bombay Hospital after fracturing his right let and taking a gun shot to the right arm in Mumbai, India on Sunday, November 30th 2008. His wife, Maria Trossa, is in the next room over recovering from her injuries.RIGHT:Injured NSG Commando Yaday Sunil Kumar is interviewed in his room at the Bombay Hospital in Mumbai, India on Sunday, November 30th 2008.
   
A boy plays on the shore of a small fishing village where the 10 terrorists landed in a small inflatable boat on Wednesday night in Mumbai, India on Sunday, November 30th 2008.
   
Dov Goldberg, who is rumored to be the new Chabad Rabbi in Mumbai talks with ZAKA members about how to get into the Chabad House to remove bodily remains and prayer books remaining from the hostage crisis that started on Wednesday in Mumbai, India on Sunday, November 30th 2008.
     
  
Shop owners and residents start the clean up next to the Bharat Petroleum station that was hit by a grenade attack before gunmen stormed the Nariman Chabad house in Mumbai, India on Saturday, November 29th 2008.
   
Mumbai Police guard the entrance to the lane that houses Nariman House in Mumbai, India on Sunday, November 30th 2008.
   
A man has his lunch and some afternoon tea at a shop 100 yards away from Nariman House as life returns to normal in Mumbai, India on Sunday, November 30th 2008.
     
  
A man holds a sign outside of Leopolds Cafe, one of the locations at which gunmen opened fire during the Mumbai terrorist attacks.
   
Life returns to normal at Leopolds Cafe in Colaba, Mumbai, India.
   
Mumbaikers attend a candle light vigil joining in peaceful ceremony in the face of the violence that has engulfed Mumbai since Wednesday in Mumbai, India on Sunday, November 30th 2008.