.... and we are to get a warm and fuzzy feeling because of this ????
> To: [email protected]
> From: [email protected]
> Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:56:42 +0000
> Subject: [asom] Baby Moshe & an Assamese
> 2nd person who helped Baby Moshe escape: Zakir Hussain from Assam
> Zakir Hussain, from Badarpur, Assam, who worked for the Jewish couple(killed
> in Nariman House, Mumbai), cooking orthodox kosher food for dozens of Jews
> each week, is the second person who save baby Moshe from escaping from the
> Nariman House.
> While the story of Sandra Samuels, the Holtzbergs’ nanny who was in the
> building and managed to escape with their two-year-old son Moshe, has made
> international headlines, the ordeal of Zakir Hussain, who shared her 13-hour
> ordeal standing between two refrigerators while intermittent firing
> continued, is little known. Zakir is in hiding on the advice of
> investigators.
> Breaking his silence in a telephone interview to reporters today, he said:
> “We never believed anybody could harm our saheb. I kept thinking that if
> those people wanted money, saheb would give it to them and ensure the safety
> of the guests, madam and Moshe.”
> Zakir, 23, belongs to Banga, a small village in Badarpur, Assam, and came to
> Mumbai like lakhs of others, looking for a job and a better life. He started
> off as a helper in a grocery store until the opportunity to work for the
> Rabbi and his wife came up. So he learnt to cook kosher meals and became
> ‘Jackie’ for the hundreds of Jews who stopped by at Chabad House. Kosher food
> is food prepared as prescribed by Jewish dietary laws. It covers the kinds of
> meat that can be consumed, the method in which animals have to be butchered
> and cooked, and ingredients that can be used, among others.
> That Wednesday night, having served a kosher dinner of chicken, bread, mixed
> vegetables and spaghetti, Zakir and Sandra were resting on the ground floor.
> At 9.45 pm., they were just about to go up to the first-floor kitchen to stow
> leftovers in the fridge when they saw one terrorist firing. “We didn’t see
> the face, just the big gun. We realized there was something wrong. We just
> entered the first floor and banged the door shut. We rushed to the balcony
> and started shouting for help. The firing continued and we ran towards the
> store-room,” he says.
> A moment after Zakir and Sandra entered the store-room and shut the door, a
> grenade shattered the door of the first floor. “They thought we died in that
> explosion, but we hid between two steel fridges, praying. Death was literally
> standing on the other side of the door,” he recalls.
> They stood there for 13 hours, hearts pounding. In between, Sandra telephoned
> the watchman, who had stepped out for dinner, and asked him to inform the
> police. The firing continued through the night and into the morning, until
> there was a lull.
> “We came out of the store-room at 11 am and saw the destruction, slowly
> making our way through the broken glass and pieces of concrete. We were near
> the stairs when we heard Moshe’s cries. Sandra and I then went up to the
> second floor. While she went in and picked up the baby from the room, I stood
> near the stairs,” he said. Baby in hand, the two fled the building, never
> looking back. Zakir, who identified the bodies of the hostages after the
> siege ended, is still trying to get over the nightmare.
> EOM
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