Roosevelt Island Communal Memorial Observance In Memory of Mumbai Terrorist Victims on December 4

Video of Mumbai Terrorist Attach from Wall Street Journal

All members of the Roosevelt Island community are invited to a Communal Memorial Observance for the victims of the Mumbai India terrorist attack.

Communal Memorial Observance in memory of the victims of the Mumbai Terrorist Attacks

Hosted by Rabbi Zalman and Nechama Duchman in memory of our dear friends and colleagues Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg

Thursday, December 4^th 2008, 7:30pm

Community Room of 425 Main Street

For more information and RSVP:

Nechama@RIJewish.org

212-652-5660

Thank you,

Zalman and Nechama Duchman

Just as advanced technology is being used to spread information about this Observance, it was also used as a tool in the attack. From the Washington Post:

The heavily armed attackers who set out for Mumbai by sea last week navigated with Global Positioning System equipment, according to Indian investigators and police. They carried BlackBerrys, CDs holding high-resolution satellite images like those used for Google Earth maps, and multiple cellphones with switchable SIM cards that would be hard to track. They spoke by satellite telephone. And as television channels broadcast live coverage of the young men carrying out the terrorist attack, TV sets were turned on in the hotel rooms occupied by the gunmen, eyewitnesses recalled....