26/11 Mumbai Attacked

Contents: Editor's note. 1. They kept the soldier's promise : bravehearts/Chris Khetan. 2. His pants were starched with coagulated blood : the fight for Nariman House/Rahul Shivshankar. 3. Men, women and children ... Kasab's AK-47 did not discriminate : the carnage at CST/George Koshy. 4. Assemble bed-sheets, carpets, mattresses, set them on fire : 60 dark hours at hotel Taj/Ashish Khetan. 5. At the tiffin restaurant there was blood, blown-out bits of flesh ... splattered on the floor : How hotel Oberoi was secured/Ashish Khetan. 6. I went up assuming that my husband would follow me but be didn't make it out of the door : eyewitness accounts from CST, Leopold Cafe, Taj and Oberoi/Harsh Joshi. 7. Inflict maximum damage and don't be taken alive : Karachi to Mumbai: terror, step by step/Ashish Khetan. 8. The Lashkar was obviously not using money to buy flowers for the Indian Army : Inside the headquarters of the Lashkar-e-Toiba/Harinder Baweja. 9. Like that only and proud, no? : Mumbai/Bachi Karkaria. 10. The need is operational independence without political intervention : tackling terror in modern times/Julio Ribeiro. 11. Shivraj Patil delayed the NSG flight by 45 minutes " why India will be hit again/Harinder Baweja.

From the editor's note: "Several chapters in the book take a long, hard, even despairing look at how terror unfolded, step by step for over sixty long hours as India was held hostage. The chapters contain hitherto unpublished information on how the operation was planned and executed. Well-known journalists Ashish Khetan and Rahul Shivshankar have painstakingly reconstructed the horror at the three main target sites: hotels Taj and Oberoi and Nariman House and all three chapters give crucial insights into the terrorists' modus operandi, hair-raising conversations between the attackers and their handlers in Pakistan and the fight back--the almost impossible manner in which the National Security Guards got down to the task of pinning the terrorists down, even as they groped in the dark without too much help from other agencies who had begun intercepting the calls being made between Mumbai and Pakistan.

The book also details the intelligence failures, critical failures that are in urgent need of redress. Another chapter tracks the story back to Muridke, the infamous address just outside Lahore, where the Lashkar-e-Toiba is headquartered and where Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist was trained for the Mumbai attack."