Yes, terrorists escaping as civilians was a possibility and live coverage of operations in tv was a boon to those masterminding attacks

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Also media plays an important part in formulating peoples decision’s/opinions and should be careful in what they say and how.

It has not been less than a month that integrity/dedication/honesty of our Armed Personnel’s/ Police was being questioned by our nation (which includes Politician, Media and us the General Public)

I hope we can see through the deceitful politics and a new era of Politicians will immerge; In the last few days have a heard a lot on Indian News channels of how we need a Obama to save us when this great nation of ours have produced capable and efficient leaders like Sardar Patel, Lal Bahadur shastri and Indira Gandhi.

We need new breed of Patel’s, Shastri’s and Indira’s to run this great Nation of ours. We need new philosophers/scientist’s/visionaries like Abul Kalam’s

It’s a old Hindi saying

Aanakta mei Eakta yeh hai Hind ki Vishasta

I hope we will retrospect in ourselves and rather than fighting and blaming each other will come out strong as a nation.

Jai Hind
A Proud Indian

Firefighters then worked to contain fierce flames and thick smoke that billowed from the building’s lower floors.

Soldiers near Taj Mahal

The BBC’s Mark Dummett at the scene says the search is now on for any surviving militants who may be hiding in the hotel’s 400 rooms, but security officials say they think the operation is now over.

All eyes will now be on India’s investigation of the attacks, our correspondent says, with questions already being asked about the failure of its intelligence agencies to uncover the plans.

The commandos suspect that the militants knew the hotel well because they were very mobile during the course of the siege, he says, making it extremely difficult for security forces to secure an area in order to evacuate guests.

Some have described this as India’s 9/11, our correspondent adds, and people in India now want answers as to who is responsible.

Blasts had rung out for most of Friday after truckloads of commandos entered the premises.

A journalist and bystander outside the hotel were taken to hospital after being hit by shrapnel.

Indian commandos who managed to enter other parts of the Taj say they found at least 30 bodies in one hall.

Fighting appears to have ended at the other key flashpoints in Mumbai, chief among them the Oberoi-Trident hotel – where nearly 100 people were rescued and 24 bodies were found earlier on Friday.

But at Nariman House, the Mumbai base of Chabad-Lubavitch, a New York-based orthodox Jewish organisation, the news was grim.

The organisation confirmed that Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, 29, had been killed alongside his wife, Rivka. Their two-year-old son survived.

The Holtzbergs had moved to India in 2003 from New York to run the Mumbai branch of the outreach organisation, which offers services and hospitality to Jewish travellers.

The bodies were removed from the building early on Saturday.

The stand-offs began late on Wednesday when gunmen armed with automatic weapons and grenades opened fire indiscriminately on crowds at a major railway station, the two hotels, the Jewish centre, a hospital and a cafe frequented by foreigners.

Indian media have reported that at least 154 people have been killed since Wednesday, with around 370 injured, the vast majority Indian citizens.

An Indian official said the toll could rise much higher.

At least 18 foreigners are known to have died, including victims from Germany, Japan, Canada, Australia, Italy and Singapore. One Briton, Andreas Liveras, has been killed.

A claim of responsibility for this week’s attacks – the worst in India’s commercial capital since nearly 200 people were killed in a series of bombings in 2006 – has been made by a previously unknown group calling itself the Deccan Mujahideen.

However, most intelligence officials are keeping an open mind as the attacks have thrown up conflicting clues, BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner says.