What can you say? In a situation like this, it will only be days after the event that the exact scale of the attack becomes clear. Maybe it will be a lesson in how easy it is for coordinated groups of armed men, driven by blind jihadist passion, to create total and utter mayhem in a metropolitan area.

Bill Roggio’s Long War Journal is always a good place to go at a time like this: India’s financial capital under terror siege.

A police van has also been hijacked by gunmen, who are driving around the city, firing wildly. The chief of the Mumbai counterterrorism police and two other senior police officials have been killed during heavy fighting.

The Deccan Mujahideen, or Indian Mujahideen, has claimed credit for the attacks. The constellation of Kashmiri and Pakistani-based terror groups are the likely culprits, a senior US military intelligence official told The Long War Journal.

“This looks like LeT and the groups it spawned,” the official said, referring to the Pakistani-based Lashkar-e-Taiba and its affiliated groups such as Harkat ul Jihad al Islami (HuJI), the Indian Mujahideen, and the Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). The official cautioned that it is too soon to know who exactly was behind the strikes, but the attacks have similar characteristics of past attacks by these groups.

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