`US thrice shared non-specific inputs on Mumbai attack`

New Delhi, Oct 23 (PTI) The US had communicated to India
on three occasions about a possible terror threat to Mumbai
prior to the 26/11 attacks but the inputs were very general in
nature, sources said Saturday.
The inputs about a possible terror threat to some places
in India, including western port city of Mumbai, were shared
with Indian officials by their American interlocutors on three
occasions before the dastardly attack on the India's financial
capital in 2008.
"But it was more of general information, non-specific in
nature," sources said.
Friday, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao had said India
had received only "very general" information from the US,
prior to 26/11, about Lashkar-e Taiba terrorist David
Headley's plans of attacks here.
"In the last few months, once Headley case surfaced, we
have had interactions and exchanges with the American
authorities into investigations," Rao had said.
Rao was responding when asked to comment on US Assistant
Secretary of State Robert Blake's statement that Washington
had passed on information to India on Headley's plans.
Headley's two wives had reportedly told FBI over a year
prior to the Mumbai attacks that he was working with LeT and
planning attacks in India.
Media reports have suggested that the US did not pass on
these specific inputs to India, which could have helped avert
26/11 strikes. PTI