It's Over In Mumbai....For Now [Vinnie]

Or anywhere else that isn't Muslim enough. Which, well, is pretty much anywhere.

All clear at the Taj Mahal hotel.

MUMBAI, India – Authorities finished removing bodies from the bullet- and grenade-scarred Taj Mahal hotel Monday, the final site of the Mumbai siege to be cleared, as schools and businesses reopened and commuters returned to work.

Security forces had been scouring the 565-room hotel for booby traps and bodies, and declared the landmark building cleared two days after they killed the last three militants holed up inside following a three-day rampage in India's financial center that left at least 172 dead.

"We were apprehensive about more bodies being found. But this is not likely — all rooms in the Taj have been opened and checked," said Maharashtra state government spokesman Bhushan Gagrani.

The army had already cleared other sites, including the five-star Oberoi hotel and the Mumbai headquarters of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish group.

On Monday morning, parents dropped their children off at school and many shopkeepers opened their doors for the first time since the attacks began.

Mumbai returns to normal, and the AP returns to normal. Notice how the place for Jews to congregate in Mumbai has suddenly morphed into an "ultra-Orthodox Jewish group."

Never mind that five members of that "ultra-Orthodox Jewish group" were tortured in a horrific manner, and a 2 year old "ultra-Orthodox Jew" is suddenly parent-less.

You stay classy, AP.

See you next Open Blog, peeps.

posted by xgenghisx at 01:54 AM

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