India Warned Of Mumbai Attacks

[sabra]

Source: CBS News

CBS News: Intel Agency Said Two Weeks Ago That Pakistani Militants Might Target Indian Hotels


(CBS) India's intelligence agency warned as recently as November 18 that Pakistan-based militants were preparing to launch an attack on Mumbai - warnings that the Indian authorities are now accused of ignoring in the months before gunmen stormed the country's financial capital, killing at least 174 people.

Indian and European intelligence officials tell CBS News correspondent Sheila MacVicar the information gathered was specific enough to cite threats to Mumbai's main hotels, and the possibility that Islamic militants might use boats to penetrate the city's weak coastal defenses.

The investigation into last week's attack is still developing, but law enforcement officials have said about 10 well-armed, well-trained terrorists came ashore on small boats Tuesday night before methodically ambushing guests at two of Mumbai's most exclusive hotels.

The head of an Indian fishermens' union says he warned the government that militants were using sea routes to smuggle explosives four months ago, reports MacVicar, and a captured Lashkar-e-Taiba operative told Indian interrogators months ago that he had carried out reconnaissance of both the Taj Mahal and Oberoi hotels.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/02/world/main4642083.shtml?tag=topStory;topStoryHeadline

[Rebubula]

1. Warning or not

It is hard to stop a group of people with weapons and a martyr-style mission.

[Bushies gotta go]

2. Oh, come on really....

be fair... they were busy vacationing at the Crawford ranch in the weeks leading up to it and then on that fateful day, busy reading to kids whom they did not want to alarm. Oh, wait. Never mind, that was somebody else.

[Torn_Scorned_Ignored]

3. if true and as serious a threat as it became

Where was the Department of State?

Americans. Were. Killed.

[subsuelo]

4. Question - how many headline stories after sept 11 were there

... stating how many warnings the U.S. received prior to that attack?