India, July 22 -- The Mumbai suburban railway bombing, also known as the 7/11 blasts, took place on July 11, 2006. Unfortunately, it took place when we lacked an integrated approach to our intelligence coordination and terror crime investigation.

The then Mumbai police commissioner told a security advisory group constituted by the Maharashtra government - of which I was a member - that he had never been given any indication in his meetings with the Intelligence Bureau at the highest level before the attack that the Mumbai suburban railway system was a target. In fact, it seemed that the central intelligence indicated that religious places would be targeted.

The 7/11 attacks killed 189 passengers in different trains on the Western Railwa...