US terror inputs before 26/11 not specific: India

India on Wednesday said terror-related inputs provided to it by the United States prior to the Mumbai attack in 2008 were 'general' in nature and 'not specific.'

The remarks by External Affairs Minister S M Krishna came days after reports that two estranged wives of Pakistani-American Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative David Coleman Headley had before the Mumbai carnage told US officials about his 'radical connections.'

"We had some general and not specific information which we had received from the US prior to the heinous attack on Mumbai. But it was not specific and very general," External Affairs Minister S M Krishna told mediapersons in reply to a question on the subject.

He emphasised on the strategic ties between US and India and how they were further strengthened in the recent years.

"We share a common outlook on a host of issues including on combating terrorism," Krishna said. According to media reports, two estranged wives of Headley had met US officials and informed them about his terrorist links.

However, the US has maintained that these inputs were of a general nature. Headley had made startling revelations about his activities in India to the National Investigation Agency officials who interrogated him in Chicago in the US recently.

This includes terror attack plots on targets including the National Defence College here. US ambassador to India Timothy Roemer said in a statement last Saturday that Washington had shared with New Delhi terror-related inputs it deemed were 'potentially credible' to this country's national security.