And that was the SECOND warning they had gotten before the attack.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/USA/McConnell_blames_Lashkar-e-Taiba_for_Mumbai_attacks/articleshow/3786715.cms"The same group that we believe is responsible for Mumbai had a similar attack in 2006 attack on a train and killed a similiar number of people," said McConnell, speaking at Harvard University. "Go back to 2001 and it was an attack on the parliament."
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It is the first time a US government official publicly fingers the group as being behind the deadly Mumbai attacks, though Washington has been dropping hints for days.
US officials had warned India in October hotels and business centers in Mumbai would be targeted by attackers coming from the sea, according to US news media reports.
Indian intelligence officials intercepted a phone call on November 18 to an address in Pakistan used by the head of Lashkar-e-Taiba, revealing a possible attack from the sea, ABC News reported. 
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