Report: India Warned Of Airborne Attacks

New Intelligence Puts Indian Airports On High Alert, Unexploded Grenade Found At Hospital

(CBS/AP)  Local media reports quoted the Indian air force chief Thursday as saying authorities had received warnings of a possible airborne terrorist attack.

Major airports across the country were put on high alert after receiving the information from intelligence agencies about possible aerial strikes.

Air force chief Fali Homi Major told the Press Trust of India news agency: "This is based on a warning which has been received and we are prepared as usual."

Indian Defense Minister A.K. Antony summoned his military chiefs Wednesday to warn them to be prepared for attacks from the air and the sea in the wake of growing criticism about slack security after the Mumbai attack last week.

Meanwhile, Mumbai police said an unexploded hand grenade was found Thursday outside a hospital that was the scene of an attack during last week's siege on the city.

Senior Police Inspector Shashi Pal said the grenade was found by a patient in a box of garbage behind Cama Hospital. The bomb squad was quickly called to the scene.

Pal said the grenade may have been left by the gunmen, but an investigation has not yet been completed.

Police found two bombs at Mumbai's main train station Wednesday, almost a week after they were left there by gunmen behind the attacks - a stunning new example of the botched security that has sparked outrage in India since the deadly three-day siege.

While searching through a mound of about 150 bags, which police believed were left by the dozens of victims in the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus station, an officer found a suspicious-looking bag and called the bomb squad, said Assistant Commissioner of Police Bapu Domre. Inside were two 8.8-pound bombs, which were taken away and safely detonated, he said.

After the attacks, police found unexploded bombs at several of the sites, including two luxury hotels and a Jewish center.

It was not immediately clear why the bags at the station were not examined earlier. The station, which serves hundreds of thousands of commuters, was declared safe and reopened hours after the attack.

The discovery has added to increasing accusations that India's security forces missed warnings and bungled its response to the Nov. 26-29 attacks.

Indian navy chief Sureesh Mehta has called the response to the attacks "a systemic failure." The country's top law enforcement official has resigned amid criticism that the 10 gunmen appeared better coordinated and better armed than police in Mumbai.

India continued directing the blame Thursday for last week's three-day terrorist attack in Mumbai at a banned Pakistani militant group, with an intelligence official claiming two of the groups leaders had masterminded the siege.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Pakistani leaders Thursday during a visit to the country that the U.S. wanted to see a series of "concrete steps" from Islamabad in response to the Mumbai attack, going beyond just another ban on Islamic groups, reported CBS News Farhan Bokhari.

Her meeting with Pakistan's president did yield an official response from the nation which now feels the accusatory stare of most of the Western world - and India - over the Mumbai attack.

CBS News has learned that the FBI and Department of Homeland Security issued a new bulletin on Thursday to American building owners and operators, as well as law enforcement, to alert them to the latest information on the Mumbai attacks, some of it from uncorroborated open sources and some from interrogations with the captured terrorist.

The agencies "have no credible or specific information that terrorists are planning operations against public buildings in the United States."

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said he would take "strong action" against elements in his country that were involved in the 62-hour terrorist siege.

Pakistan has complained that India has shared no evidence linking it to the attacks.

[nynynyny1]

OK. Now the indians are acting smart, they purposly found bombs at the railway station to let their people know that their autorities are "welltrained and active", well where were they when the terrorist arrived in mumbai on a boat loaded with bomb and explosives!....Loosers they are trying to make it up again. So they also shifted the blamne on to Pakistan eventhough there is no prove and the duccan mujahideen have taken the responsibility of the Mumbai attacks . I don''t understand why are people or the media so dum, everything is crystal clear and no one is projecting it!

[mtminds]

What happened to your spam about the attacks were from Israel? I liked those better.

[alphaa10000]

clgl_fubar said, "... Then we can ALL be sheeple like those fools slaughtered in Mumbai without ever having a chance to defend themselves."
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The best self-defense comes from adequate preparation and training for professionals you delegate the job.

Mumbai, in contrast, proves how disastrous any general lack of preparation for a terror threat can be.

Mumbai does not make the case for civilians with guns. The attack is not proof that a pistol in every pocket is defense against a well-armed and trained commando force. Most civilians are a joke as marksmen, and they know it.

Tip-- Never challenge an assault rifle with a handgun.

Yet, American handguns can be deadlier-- at 81 Americans daily-- than the toll of Americans on 911.

Handguns kill as many friendlies in this country as perps, and the slaughter is far more horrific than anything terrorists have pulled off, so far.

[nokia3210c]

LET SET THINGS STRAIGHT HERE:- THE MUMBAI ATTACKS ARE PRECTIONS OF A WIDER PICTURE - A REMINDER, HAY GUYS THE MORAN LOOSER G.W.BUSH IS LEAVING THE WHITE HSE, BUT HERE IS HIS LAST WISH, DONT FORGET WHAT I STARTED IN 2001 IN NEW YORK, MUSLIM ARABS AND TERRORISM. WHY NOT START MUSLIM ASIANS AND TERRORISM (PAKISTAN Vz INDIA)-AND THE GAME CONTINUES!!!

[hunterdon6]

If these innocent people had a hand gun to protect themselves, the death toll would be alot less. I disagree with the guy who said that most Americans with a hand gun are terrible shots. All the people who I know that have a concealed weapons permit shoot about 3,000 rounds a year for practice. And are extremely accurate. The reason Japan didn''t attack the USA mainland during WWII was they knew American''s have guns in the households and they would have high death losses. A gun in the pocket of an honest law abiding citizen is a great deterrent to crime.

[maharajag]

Air force chief Fali Homi Major told the Press Trust of India news agency: "This is based on a warning which has been received and we are prepared as usual."



let us read again....

"and we are prepared as usual."


THAT COUNTRY WILL HAVE NOW WAY MORE DEAD BODIES THEN MUMBAI ATTACK SINCE THEY ARE prepared as usual!!!!!

[briannorwood]

Muhammed was a closet homosexual!

[presjfk]

If these innocent people had a hand gun to protect themselves, the death toll would be alot less. I disagree with the guy who said that most Americans with a hand gun are terrible shots. All the people who I know that have a concealed weapons permit shoot about 3,000 rounds a year for practice. And are extremely accurate. The reason Japan didn''''t attack the USA mainland during WWII was they knew American''''s have guns in the households and they would have high death losses. A gun in the pocket of an honest law abiding citizen is a great deterrent to crime. Posted by hunterdon6"

The Japanese didn''t attack the mainland because they couldn''t not because of people with handguns. That is a historical fact.

As for the concept that everyone be allowed to carry a gun, your guess that such carrying of weapons could have reduced the bloodshed in India has merit. I doubt though it would have been a deterrence. Everyone carry''s in Iraq and there are attacks all the time.

Here in the USA, if everyone carrying was a law abiding, well centered, headstrong citizen with a brain- I could go along with you on this. But there are a lot of idiots out there and not having a mental illness history or criminal record is not enough for me to feel good about the wholesale carrying of weapons.

[presjfk]

"Muhammed was a closet homosexual! Posted by briannorwood at 09:20 AM : Dec 04, 2008
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Jesus was openly practicing. Posted by FloydZeppd"

You guys should just come out of the closet and stop ranting.

[crazybajan]

Lets do what Mike Savage says. Carpet bomb the tribal regions of Pakistan until nothing is left.

[bjcone8559]

This ranks as THE nutiest left-wing comment of the day.

You''''ve never owned a gun have you.
When seconds count...the police (regardless of how well trained they are) will be there in just a few minutes.

"Tip-- Never challenge an assault rifle with a handgun"

Good tip...let twenty armed civilians challenge the sorry-arse.



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Posted by fahr451


All Bush supporters want to be cowboys.

Just curious, do you have your little red boots and your little red hat on?

[tincup356]

Airborne attacks? since when did terrorists get military aircraft? oh i forgot......your not supposed to expose propaganda BS.This idiots selling this cheap fear will try to get people to believe anything to keep the war for fear going.What we do have to fear is corrupt world governments working together with the worlds mega rich,to shift the monies of the masses to the pockets of the few.The middle class of citizens around the world are being destroyed right now and no one seems to care,I wonder why that is?The only question that remains is.......how far will the people let this go before they stand up and fight?As more time passes more people become homeless, job less and desperate.If you were in this situation , where would you draw the line and say "my right to exist will not be taken from me like all the other rights that have been taken in the name of terror?

[mrmeatspin]

Jesus was openly practicing.

Posted by FloydZeppd at 09:53 AM : Dec 04, 2008
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he is ??

then let jesus insprire you to come out

[mrmeatspin]

All Bush supporters want to be cowboys.

Just curious, do you have your little red boots and your little red hat on?

Posted by nowaymcgoo at 10:30 AM : Dec 04, 2008
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and all liberals wants to be a princess..and yes they wear little red boot and little red hat with a little red shorts..holding a little red sign about perp 8


if it takes to bed with terrroists to beat american conservatives to get the right to fu ck each in there arse OPENLY..there are no second thoughts..


THAT IS THE BIGGEST SECRET..

[toolmangler-2009]

then let jesus insprire you to come out

Posted by MrMeatSpin at 04:44 PM : Dec 05, 2008



Yes, Jesus is speaking, but ''you'' can''t hear him because you won''t shut up about hating him long enugh to listen and ask what he want of you.
If it makes you feel better, call me a name, and ''Then'' shut up and listen.