SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- About 300 people carrying signs reading "Democracies against terror" attended a San Francisco vigil for the victims of the recent terror attacks in Mumbai.
About 30 speakers from a diverse array of groups spoke. The crowd of mostly Indians and Jews mourned the nearly 200 victims killed on Wednesday in attacks by suspected Muslim militants in India's financial capital.
One of the speakers, Rabbi Peretz Mochkin, says he was childhood friends with two of the victims, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivkah. Mochkin told the crowd that their mission "not to fight back with hatred."
An organizer of the event Khanderao Kand, an architect, called on President-elect Barack Obama to take a lead in a concerted international action to combat terrorism beyond Iraq and Afghanistan.
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