India Under Siege - Mumbai Attacks Kill 78, Hostages Being Held

This is truly a nightmare going on in India's city of Mumbai. There's a ton of stuff that has happened and is still developing...let's look at the CNN report about the attack:

Gunmen rampaged through a series of targets in the Indian city of Mumbai killing indiscriminately and taking hostages at two luxury hotels.
Gunmen armed with automatic weapons and grenades hit the hotels, a cafe, a train station and other sites in coordinated attacks, police say.
Maharashtra state government spokesman Bhushan Gagri said 78 people killed and about 200 wounded, while police confirmed 26 deaths.
Among the dead is the head of the Maharashtra state's anti-terror squad, who apparently died in the violent aftermath of the attacks rather than being a target for the killers.
The attacks included five shootouts and two grenade attacks, said a police officer at Mumbai's police control room.

The reports are that there are 15 hostages being held in the luxury hotel in Mumbai and that at least half of those hostages are Western - reports from several news agencies are saying that the jihadists were specifically looking for Americans or British to take hostage.

At Mahalo, they are reporting about a claim of responsibility:

A group calling itself the Deccan Mujahideen has claimed responsibility for the coordinated terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, on November 26, 2008. Although the group is unknown, a group known as the Indian Mujahideen threatened to carry out an attack on Mumbai in September 2008

This is going to be a story throughout the day and into the night but it underlines just how big of a target India is and has been for quite some time. Al Qaeda has made no bones about the fact that they have targeted India and there are dozens of terrorist groups in the country from every sect imaginable.

With nearly 80 dead here and an even more disturbing picture of hostages taken, this could bode very badly for the Indians.

Scores killed in Mumbai rampage

CNN correspondent Andrew Stevens said: "We do not know if this has reached its peak or if more attacks to come."
A local journalist told CNN he had seen evidence of an attack at the city's domestic airport, which is on the outskirts of the Mumbai.
IBN reported explosions at a gas station and inside a taxi on a dockside road.
Attacks were reported at the Taj and Oberoi hotels, the popular Café Leopold, and Cama Hospital, and the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station.
India has suffered a number of attacks in recent years, including a string of bombs that ripped through packed Mumbai commuter trains and platforms during rush hour in July 2006. About 209 people were killed in that attack.
Last July, a series of synchronized bomb blasts in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad left 49 dead and more than 100 wounded, police said.
But Paresh Parihar, a businessman in Mumbai, described Wednesday's attacks as unlike anything he had seen.

"They really don't fear for their lives or any other activity that could put them in danger," he told CNN. "This is really a very unusual situation."
U.S. State Department spokesman Robert Wood said: "We are monitoring the situation very closely and stand ready to support the Indian authorities as they deal with this horrific series of attacks."