Foreign Ministry officials are reporting additional Israelis have been located, now stating only two people are missing Baruch Hashem.
CNN is reporting the official death tool in Mumbai is 183 with 273 people injured.
7:15pm: Yehuda Meshi-Zahav
The delay in the flight is due to the demand for visas. “All day the media poked fun at the Mumbai security forces saying ‘they could have done it better’. It appears that here too, we could have done it better. The Indian officials are working at their pace so in the meantime, we are waiting for visas to permit takeoff and then completion of the process to bring the bodies home for kvura. We said visas are required and they said no. We were correct. We could have landed in India and not be permitted out of the airport without visas.â€
Radio Kol Chai:
The terrorists were “armed to the teeth†with high quality explosives, hoping to perpetrate an attack larger than 9/11.
It appears the men were killed first:
Investigators believe that with the exception of Rav Holtzberg, the men were murdered first since they were not bound but the bodies of the women were. There is also testimony that Rav Holtzberg spoke with Chabad representatives in America and that his body was still warm when Zaka officials received it erev Shabbos [Israel time].
Moishele’s nanny expected to come to Israel:
Sandra Samuel, the nanny who saved Moshe Holtzberg, has been with Israel Foreign Ministry officials since she fled the Chabad House. She remains Moshe’s primary caretaker since she is the only one he is familiar with. It is believed she will be returning to Israel on the special Israel Air Force flight.
Almagor Terror Victim Org Director Meir Indor:
Indor, a lt.-colonel in the IDF reserves questions Israel’s handling of the Mumbai matter pertaining to an incident involving Israeli hostages, namely the Chabad House. Indor also points out that Israel has good diplomatic relations with India, even security matters, and the Foreign Ministry was not assertive enough and should have stepped in once it was realized the situation was not being handled to Israel’s satisfaction.
Indor draws an analogy from the Munich Massacre, when a much stronger army was permitted to rescue the Israelis â€" and we saw the sad results there too.
Indor in short questions why Israel did not do more towards sending an Israeli commando team rather than take a sit-back-and-watch attitude.
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