26/11 REMAMBER OUR HEROES

2008 Mumbai attacks

The 2008 Mumbai attacks were twelve coordinated shooting and bombing attacks across Mumbai, India's largest city, by terrorists. who were trained in and came from Pakistan.The attackers allegedly received reconnaissance assistance before the attacks. the attacks were conducted with the support of Pakistan's ISI. 

Seven police officers and four Army personnel will be honoured with the Ashoka Chakra. In the last ten years, only six personnel from the police and paramilitary forces were conferred the Ashoka Chakra which is essentially a military award.

Hemant Karkare, Ashok Kamte, Vijay Salaskar, Tukaram Omble, Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan and Havildar Gajender Singh will be awarded the Ashoka Chakra posthumously for the gallantry shown in Mumbai.

Sapper V Sathish of the NSG, police constables Arun Chitte, Ambadas Powar and Inspector Shashank Shinde of the Maharashtra police besides Home Guard Mukesh Jadhav have been named for the Kirti Chakra.

widespread global condemnation, began on Wednesday, 26 November and lasted until Saturday, 29 November 2008, killing 164 people and wounding at least 308

  Ajmal Kasab, the only attacker who was captured alive, later confessed upon interrogation that the attacks were conducted with the support of Pakistan's ISI.   

There were in all 10 attackers out of which 1 survived and 9 were killed:[136]
Abdul Rahman
Abdul Rahman Chhota
Abu Ali
Fahad Ullah
Ismail Khan
Babar Imran
Abu Umar
Abu Sohrab
Shoaib alias Soheb

One Ajmal Kasab survived but was later hanged in Yerwada jail.

Media coverage highlighted the use of social media and Internet social networking tools, including Twitter and Flickr, in spreading information about the attacks. In addition, many Indian bloggers and Wikipedia offered live textual coverage of the attacks.A map of the attacks was set up by a web journalist using Google Maps.The New York Times, in July 2009, described the event as "what may be the most well-documented terrorist attack anywhere."

Wed, Nov 21 2012. 7:30 am IST

Ajmal Kasab is dead. Hanged by the neck till death at 7:30am on Wednesday at Yerawada jail, almost four years to the day that he burst into Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, guns blazing. By Indian standards, justice has been swift.

This does not in any way mean that I do not support Kasab’s death sentence. If anyone ever deserved it, it was Ajmal Kasab. But 11 years after the Mumbai blasts, four years after 26/11, we are no closer to striking a decisive blow to the medieval fanatics and criminals who mastermninded the deaths of hundreds of innocent Indians. I mean no disrespect at all to the men and women who died in these attacks, and their families and loved ones. But rejoicing over any hanging is morbid. And rejoicing over this particular one also displays naïvety, something that we can hardly afford in our fight against terrorism,

which is not going to end

very soon