Details of the Mumbai Chabad attack emerge

Mumbai's Chabad House before the attack

The Chabad House after the attack

Terrorists 'deliberately targeted' Jews -Yaakov Lappin

[The] dramatic and drawn-out Indian commando raid on the [Mumbai Chabad] building, lasting over two days, came to a close. Israeli media reported that some of the victims were found wrapped in prayer shawls, speculat[ing] that one of the hostages had wrapped the bodies before he was killed.

[M]ost of the hostages were found bound and gagged by the commandos, and had been shot long before Indian forces landed on the roof from a helicopter on Thursday night.

The Indian commandos fought their way slowly down the multi-story building, as intermittent exchanges of fire and explosions were broadcast on Indian satellite news networks to the world.

Foreign Ministry official Haim Hoshen told the Post that there was no doubt the Chabad House was the target of a premeditated and planned assault.

There were unconfirmed reports suggesting that Chabad officials tried to negotiate with the terrorists inside the Chabad House, in several calls to Holtzberg's mobile phone - presumably after the victims had been killed.
[Jerusalem Post]