Via the Los Angeles Times:
9:13 AM PST, November 28, 2008
MUMBAI, India — Commandos who stormed the Mumbai headquarters of an ultra-orthodox Jewish group found the bodies of five hostages inside, Indian and Israeli rescue officials said, as a fresh battle raged at the luxury Taj Mahal hotel and other Indian forces ended a siege at another five-star hotel.
The Chabad-Lubavitch movement has confirmed that a New York rabbi and his wife are among the dead in the India terrorist attack.
A spokesman, Rabbi Zalman Schmotkin, says Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and his wife, Rivka, have been killed in Mumbai. They ran the movement's local headquarters, which was attacked.
More than 150 people have been killed since gunmen attacked 10 sites across India's financial capital starting Wednesday night, including 22 foreigners, officials said.
The Washington Post has a story on the atmosphere in Mumbai as the city reels in grief; the New York Times discusses the "extraordinary" visit to India proposed by the head of Pakistan's intelligence agency at they same time the Times analyzes how the attacks complicate the already tense relationship between Pakistan and India, a relationship the U.S. has been attempting to mediate.
Barcepundit has been liveblogging the situation. nataraj's diary has a wealth of links on hand to keep on top of the situation.
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