'Terrorists set up control rooms in luxury hotels'

[FarCenter]

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/000200811272111.htm

Mumbai (PTI): Terrorists, who struck Mumbai had set up an advance Control Room in the luxury Taj and Trident (Oberoi) hotels and had done prior reconnaisance, a Union Cabinet minister said on Thursday.

The minister who requested anonymity said that the security agencies were piecing together various leads in the probe on India's worst ever terror strike.

The minister also said the terrorists cannot execute the operation of the magnitude of Wednesday's attack without making any recee or setting up a control room type mechanism.

Amid reports that a likely marine arm of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba may have been involved in the well-planned attacks that left more than 100 persons dead, the Union Home Ministry said the terrorists chose the sea route and came to the city in boats before spreading out in the metropolis to carry out the sinister action.

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The terrorists were also found to be carrying huge loads of almonds, which can be used as food during a long siege.

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[CoffeeCat]

1. Huge bags of almonds?

I guess, sometimes you feel like a nut--sometimes you don't.

[gristy]

2. I can use almonds as food?

I had no idea!

[lib2DaBone]

3. I wonder where the terrorists got the money to set up in 5 star hotels?

[foo_bar]

4. are they making cyanide?

http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Condor/files/issues/v057n06/p0370-p0370.pdf