Gunfire at OK Corral

This is just surreal. Terrorists running amok, racing between the two wings, with the army firing indiscriminately. I have no objection to indiscriminate fire, as long as it generates dead bodies of terrorists, but seems like 2 of them are holed up somewhere in the hotels plush and cavernous facilities.
I'm too upset to be civil, and I've already bitten off Taks' head without much provocation, so will turn my attention to some of these alleged reporters instead. "Big gunshots from one of the rooms coming out....". Surely we have a plethora of regional channels they can be reporting for in a language they're comfortable in? I miss All India Radio. They had class. Knew their business, were taught voice modulation, had impeccable diction, pitch and accents, understood the difference between reportage and rambling. I believe they still do. The last bastion of civilised India. AIR. Maybe I should move to Jhumritalia.
Gunshots. Full out gunfire at the hotels. It's just bizarre. Police 'encounters' no longer the domain of Mumbai's vast and seamy underworld. Why we call it an encounter is beyond me. Khush raises an interesting point - 100 people were rescued from within the Taj, what about the other 2,000 that usually fester on the premises? Oh brilliant. The petrol pump at Colaba causeway has been blown up, and there are a couple of terrorists possibly holed up in the building behind, and obligingly shot two men in the vicinity. Next to the petrol pump is where Arjan's cut piece shop is, next to Blue Haven salon and Bindra tailor. One lane north of Kailash Parbat, the home of pani puri made from bisleri and other delicacies, where they'll happily deliver an order for Rs.12.
Another terrorist down. A grand total of 5. Several more to go. Speculation suggests that the goal was to cripple tourism, thusly the high profile targets and taking of foreigners as hostages. And this will help their cause how?? One presumes a career in terrorism is a handy solution to congenital stupidity. As my co-contributor says, when brains were being handed out by the almighty, these guys must have reached out with chai channis (tea strainers). Seems like the current crop of TV reporters were in the same queue with colanders, "clearly things are all happening right there...." from a reporter at the Taj. What perspicacity.