September 27

The gunman captured in last month's Mumbai attacks...Mohammed Ajmal Kasab said he and his partner, who assaulted the city's main train station, had planned a rooftop standoff...Kasab's seven-page confession, given to police over repeated interrogations, offers chilling new details of the three-day rampage through India's commercial center that left 164 people plus nine gunmen dead.

He said the assault, which started Nov. 26, was initially set for Sept. 27,

And why Sept. 27?

September 27 was the Shabbat, two days before the Jewish New Year and it could have been expected that many more Jews would have been at the Chabad House there.