Izikhulu zaseMelika kanye nochwepheshe bezokuphepha bathi ukuhlasela kwamaphekula okuyingozi eMumbai ngokungangabazeki kuzobangela amahhotela aseNtshonalanga nezindawo zezivakashi emhlabeni wonke ukuthi aqinise ukuzivikela.
Okungenani abantu abangu-183, kuhlanganise nabokufika abangu-19, babulawa edolobheni elinabantu abaningi kakhulu eNdiya. Abakwamanye amazwe bahlanganisa abaseMelika abayisithupha kanye nezakhamizi ezivela eBrithani, France, Australia, Italy, Israel, Canada, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Singapore naseThailand.
Ochwepheshe baphawula ukuthi ukuhlasela kwamaphekula kuye kwanda eminyakeni yamuva nje ngokumelene namahhotela aphesheya kwesitayela saseNtshonalanga, “awo amamodeli ebhizinisi adinga ukuvuleleka nokufinyeleleka kwezivakashi nezivakashi, okwenza ukuphepha okuphelele kungenzeki nhlobo.”
"Usongo olubhekiswe kwabameli lusaqhubeka, kodwa ngenxa yokuqina, amaphekula afuna ukuhlasela amahhotela aphesheya," kusho umhlaziyi wamaphekula uRohan Gunaratna, ngokusho kwe-Associated Press. "Njengoba abantu baseNtshonalanga bevame ukuvakashela amahhotela anjalo, kufanele bathathwe njengamanxusa esibili."
Omunye wabanikazi bamahhotela ezinkanyezi ezinhlanu ahilelekile ekuhlaselweni kwaseMumbai, uPRS Oberoi, usihlalo we-Oberoi Group kanye nehhotela, utshele iThe Times of India ukuthi izikhulu zikahulumeni kufanele zithuthukise ezokuphepha ezindaweni ezishisayo zamazwe ngamazwe, ngisho noma zidela ukungenisa izihambi.
"Kunomkhawulo kulokho ihhotela elingakwenza ukuze kuqiniswe ezokuphepha," kusho u-Oberoi.
Amanye amaketanga amahhotela aseMelika avumele iThe New York Times ukuthi abukele ukuvinjezelwa kwehhotela laseMumbai eduze. Lokhu kuhlasela "kuzonika amandla kabusha" ezinye izinkampani ukuqinisa ezokuphepha, kusho uVivian Deuschl, okhulumela iRitz Carlton Hotel Company, inkampani engaphansi kweMarriott. (I-Marriott e-Islamabad yonke kodwa yacekelwa phansi ngoSepthemba ngokuqhunyiswa kwamabhomu ngeloli.)
I-India izoba ngaphansi kwengcindezi yokuthi iphendule ngamasu athuthukisiwe okulwa nobuphekula ukubuyisa izivakashi. U-Kanwal Pal Singh Gill, owayeyisikhulu samaphoyisa asePunjab owaba nesandla ekuqedeni umkhankaso owawugcwele igazi wokuhlukanisa amaSikh ngeminyaka yawo-1980, utshele i-AFP ukuthi izinhlaka zezobunhloli kufanele zibuthe ezinkantolo emphakathini omkhulu wamaSulumane aseNdiya.
Izikhulu zakwa-Israel ziphendula izingcingo zokunyusa ezokuphepha ezikhungweni zezenkolo eziphethwe nguChabad Lubavitch, ihlelo lamaJuda elizinze eNew York, i-Los Angeles Times ibika. Phakathi kwezinto okwakuhloswe ngazo ukuhlasela kwaseMumbai kwakuyiNariman House, isikhungo saseLubavitch.
Namuhla, uNobhala Wezwe u-Condoleeza Rice utshele izintatheli ngesikhathi ehambela eNdiya ukuthi usongo lobuphekula obubhekiswe kubantu bakwamanye amazwe phesheya kwezilwandle “belujule kakhulu futhi lukhula isikhathi eside,” kubika i-Reuters.
“Senze inqubekelaphambili enkulu ngokumelene nalezi zinhlangano kodwa, yebo, ngicabanga ukuthi lokhu kuyisici okufanele sibhekwe futhi esisinika…isizathu esengeziwe sokuqinisekisa ukuthi sifinyelela ekugcineni futhi ngokushesha ngangokunokwenzeka, " wathi.
U-MJ noSajjan Gohel, umqondisi omkhulu kanye nomqondisi wezokuphepha, ngokulandelana, we-Asia-Pacific Foundation, isikhungo esizimele sezobunhloli nezokuphepha esizinze eLondon, batshele i-CNN ukuthi izinhloso zokuhlasela "bekuyizimpawu zamandla akhulayo e-Mumbai" okuhloswe ngayo ukuthumela umlayezo oqondile eNdiya, kwa-Israel naseNtshonalanga.
"Impela, ukuhlasela kwaseMumbai kwakunezimpawu zeqembu lamaphekula elinamandla emazweni angaphandle eligqugquzelwe umbono we-al Qaeda," kubhala la madoda.
UPaul Cornish, usihlalo we-Chatham House's International Security Programme eBrithani, utshele i-BBC ukuthi lokhu kuhlasela bekungumzuzu wamanzi, ukubiza ngokuthi ukuqala kwenkathi "yobuphekula osaziwayo."
