The Taj Mahal Hotel,Mumbai -observation

In this photo released by Mumbai Fire Brigade, a firefighter looks on in one of the suites of the Taj Mahal Hotel,

 one of the venues of terror attacks in Mumbai, India, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008.

Messages written by city residents about the Mumbai attacks and Pakistan hang on a seafront road police box

in Mumbai Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008. India picked up intelligence in recent months that terrorists were plotting attacks

 against Mumbai targets, an official said Tuesday, as the government demanded that Islamabad hand over suspected terrorists believed living in Pakistan.

Local residents write messages related to recent terror attacks on long scrolls

 laid out at Marine Drive in Mumbai, India

Workers put up a banner outside the Taj Mahal hotel, one of the sites of the recent militant attacks, in Mumbai December 2, 2008. Pakistan offered on Tuesday to help India investigate the militant assault on Mumbai and said it would "frame a response" to an Indian demand that it hand over 20 of India's most wanted men. India has blamed Islamist militants based in Pakistan for last week's attacks in India's financial capital that killed 183 people.

Mumbai residents sit near the boat landing behind the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai

which was open again after attacks in had closed off the area in recent days.