(1 Dec 2008) SHOTLIST
1. Wide exterior of Taj Mahal Hotel
2. Various of damage to building
3. Various of police outside
4. Floral tribute in front of Taj Mahal
5. Police buying newspapers
6. Newspaper seller
7. Various of newspaper headlines
8. Pan up from street to Oberoi Hotel
9. Broken windows
10. People walking
11. Kiosk with messages stuck to it
10. Poster reading (English) "Mumbai Will Stand United"
STORYLINE
Authorities have finished removing bodies from the bullet-and-grenade scarred Taj Mahal hotel, the final site of the Mumbai siege to be cleared and said on Monday.
The number of dead stood at 172.
Security forces scoured 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.
The army had already cleared two other sites, the five-star Oberoi hotel and the headquarters of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish Centre.
A senior police officer said the only gunman captured after the 60-hour siege of Mumbai said he belonged to a Pakistani militant group with links to the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.
As more details of the response to the attack emerged, a picture formed of unprepared security forces, a picture that has been broadly condemned in the Indian press.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh promised to strengthen maritime and air security and look into creating a new federal investigative agency.
Joint Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria said the only known surviving gunman, Ajmal Qasab, told police he was trained at a Lashkar-e-Taiba camp in Pakistan.
A spokesman for Pakistani President Asif Zardari's spokesman dismissed the claim.
The gunman was one of 10 who paralyzed the city in an attack that revealed the weakness of India's security apparatus.
India's top law enforcement official resigned on Sunday, bowing to growing criticism that the attackers appeared better trained, better coordinated and better armed than police.
The announcement blaming militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, threatened to escalate tensions between India and Pakistan.
However, Indian officials have been cautious about accusing Pakistan's government of complicity.
Lashkar, long seen as a creation of the Pakistani intelligence service to help fight India in disputed Kashmir, was banned in Pakistan in 2002 under pressure from the US, a year after Washington and Britain listed it a terrorist group.
It is since believed to have emerged under another name, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, though that group has denied links to the Mumbai attack.
Among the foreigners killed in the coordinated shooting rampage in India's financial capital were six Americans.
The dead also included Germans, Canadians, Israelis and nationals from Britain, Italy, Japan, China, Thailand, Australia and Singapore.
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