From The Hindu:MUMBAI: Indian intelligence sources have confirmed to The Hindu that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) delivered two warnings of an impending terror attack on Mumbai in September. The first one was delivered through the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) on September 18. The sources said the information was of general nature, suggesting that the Lashkar-e-Taiba was planning to attack Mumbai.
The sources said that on September 24, the CIA provided further details in response to a request from the RAW. In this second warning, the U.S. agency expressly stated that the Lashkar was planning an attack on targets where large numbers of foreigners were present, including the Taj Mahal hotel.
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My Comment: It appears that the CIA were accurate in assessing the terror threat against Mumbai. The information from this article is very revealing .... it is clear that the CIA were aware of the planning that was being done by Islamic extremists to conduct an attack on Mumbai.
But what makes this story unfortunate .... as we all know .... is that the Indian security forces did not take this information from the CIA seriously. I suspect that an evaluation of procedures and threat assessment is being conducted in Indian Intelligence right now.