Gawd, I hope that never happens! I'd be anxious without my phone LOL.
I found that curious too, that they knew who to monitor, they started monitoring fairly early on.
There was a British guy on This Morning a few weeks back that was in the hotel at the time. He and his girlfriend heard the gunshots so the guy called his Dad in the UK asking him to switch on the news to find out what was happening. Dad saw nothing on the news.
If this guy is to be believed, and I don't see why he'd lie, it was his Dad that alerted the British Embassy about something going on over there. They had no idea.
I didn't think anything of it at the time, but after watching that documentary, there was the taxi explosions, the train station massacre and then the hotel some time later. I am now finding it odd that they didn't know.
I'm going to be highly controversial here, but a small part of me feels sorry for the guys who did it. They have been conditioned by their 'superiors' to believe that they are doing God's work. They haven't been taught their Religion properly, but by egotistical men.
These poor sods really believe what they're doing is Gods will, and for that, I can't help but feel sorry for the path their life has taken.