To coordinate with Indian intelligence and security agencies about the planning and evidence collected on the attacks, the United States of America is sending a delegation of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and forensic scientists to Mumbai, a media report in New York said on Friday (November 28).

According to an American news channel, the US officials have estimated that the Mumbai attack could have been carried out for relatively small price tag of between USD 100,000 and USD 200,00O which, they claim, is the cost of machine guns, grenades, ammunition and boats used in the carnage.

The intelligence agencies have reportedly been stunned at the level of coordination in the terror attacks in the city as now they are scrambling to identify the source of this latest threat, the report added.

Some of the high-profile US experts believe that the Mumbai attack has some sorts of resemblance to the tactics usually followed by al Qaeda– to attack simultaneously on prominent targets in the city. According to them, the “control-room”, set up by terrorists in places they attacked, may have allowed them to communicate from site to site.

An important thing was noticed in the attack that the perpetrators were specifically looking for the citizens of Western countries. The reason for such an act, as the experts believe, was to draw attention to their cause, despite not having a specific grievance against the United States.