This is a chilling but touching account of Michael Pollack, a survivor of the terrorist attacks at the Taj Hotel. Michael is a U.S. citizen married to an Indian. Must read.

- An IDIOT member of parliament who phoned into a live newscast and let the world know that hundreds of people–including CEOs, foreigners and members of parliament–were “secure and safe in The Chambers together” tipping off the terrorists who then came in and started killing people there.

-The staff at the Taj did not abandon their posts. They did everything they could to keep the guests safe. Calmly providing them provided food and drink. Many staff died protecting the guests.

-”We later learned that minutes after we climbed the stairs, terrorists came into the Harbour Bar, shot everyone who was there and executed those next door at the Golden Dragon. The staff there was equally brave, locking their patrons into a basement wine cellar to protect them. But the terrorists managed to break through and lob in grenades that killed everyone in the basement.)”

-”It is also amazing that, out of our entire group, not one person screamed or panicked. There was an eerie but quiet calm that pervaded–one more thing that got us all out alive. Even people in adjacent rooms, who were being executed, kept silent.”

-When one woman asked whether it was safe to leave, the commando replied: “Don’t worry, you have nothing to fear. The first bullets have to go through me.”

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