US warned India about possible city attack

INDIA received a warning from the United States before last week’s attacks in Mumbai that militants were plotting a waterborne assault on the city, a senior US official said yesterday as domestic intelligence officials said they were aware of a Pakistan-based plot.

Another US official added that there is reason to suspect the assailants were part of a group at least partly based across the border in Pakistan.

As the evidence of the militants’ links to Pakistan mounts, a list of about 20 people — including India’s most-wanted man — was submitted to Pakistan’s high commissioner to New Delhi on Monday night, said India’s foreign minister, Pranab Mukherjee.