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“emasculated.”
― Adrian Levy, The Siege: The Attack on the Taj Mumbai

“in Karachi, the first such plant in the country, only to be ignored. Niazi wrote: ‘This patriot Pakistani also informed [Bhutto] that apart from writing innumerable research papers, he had written an internationally known book. In spite of all of this, the incompetent officials of the People’s Steel Mill were unable to make use”
― Adrian Levy, Deception: Pakistan, the United States, and the Secret Trade in Nuclear Weapons

“The only person you can reliably kill with a high-power 9mm is yourself,”
― Adrian Levy, The Siege: The Attack on the Taj Mumbai

“a tricky manoeuvre given that India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, had recognized the state of Israel in 1950, but as a nod to Palestinians declined to establish full diplomatic relations.”
― Adrian Levy, Spy Stories: Inside the Secret World of ISI and RAW

“Know that you are beautiful and don’t doubt your own word. Seize the day and if I can tell you anything philosophical remember that everything is to live for. There are positive measures hidden in every shadow. Sister, you are created to bloom and live for the moment. The sorrow is there because you are going to be happier. See all the colours. Separate the colours and breathe stronger than before. I am extremely fond of you. I love you.”
― Adrian Levy, The Meadow

“Almost no one would publish his name or the circumstances of his death because in Pakistan, individual, daily sacrifice was never commemorated and instead was drowned out by the cacophony of the continual mayhem.”
― Adrian Levy, Spy Stories: Inside the Secret World of ISI and RAW

“Several five-star hotels were mentioned as targets, including the Trident–Oberoi and the Taj. Since then there had been twenty-five further alerts, many of them delivered by the CIA to the Indian government’s external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing, and passed on to India’s domestic Intelligence Bureau.”
― Adrian Levy, The Siege: The Attack on the Taj Mumbai

“Pasha’s full name was Abdur Rehman Hashim; an ex-army officer in the 6th Baloch Rifles, he was handsome and battlefield savvy, and had resigned his commission after refusing an order to fight against Osama bin Laden in the Tora Bora Mountains, when the Pakistan military signed up to the Americans’ ‘war on terror’.”
― Adrian Levy, The Siege: The Attack on the Taj Mumbai

“This entire operation was surreal: men landing by sea, taking a city hostage, calling Austria and being remotely manipulated by handlers who seemed to be in the US. It was unlike anything they had ever imagined. Is that a problem too?, Bharti wondered. Our lack of imagination? He”
― Adrian Levy, The Siege: 68 Hours Inside the Taj Hotel

“Their continued presence here, trapped in Chambers, with gunmen firing around them, demonstrated to him that there was no ultimate being. It was all in the roll of the dice.”
― Adrian Levy, The Siege: The Attack on the Taj Mumbai

“run by a Special Forces colonel and aided by Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, a sinewy officer whom Sisodia had ordered to lead the Taj units. A product of the National Defence Academy, the elite joint services training college outside Pune, Major Unnikrishnan, a 31-year-old Black Cat instructor, could have chosen to stay behind in Manesar. But he had volunteered.”
― Adrian Levy, The Siege: 68 Hours Inside the Taj Hotel