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            Saturday November 06, 2010 03:10:39 PM, 
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              Mumbai: US President Barack 
              Obama and his wife Michelle Saturday signed the guest book at the 
              Taj hotel and paid respects to the victims of the 2008 Mumbai 
              attack. 
               
              It was not immediately known what they wrote in the guest book but 
              the US president was seen writing with his left hand.  
               
              In a brief speech at the hotel, he condemned the 2008 attack by 
              Pakistani terrorists who killed 166 people in the financial 
              capital of India. 
               
              The Obamas arrived in the afternoon at the start of a four-day 
              India visit and will be spending Saturday night at the Taj Mahal 
              Palace and Tower Hotel, at the edge of the Arabian Sea. 
               
              After lunch in the Presidential Suite of the hotel they will go to 
              Mani Bhavan, now a museum dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi, a childhood 
              hero of the US president. 
              
                
                
                
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