Obama keeps track of Indian attacks

Washington, Nov 27 (IANS) US president-elect Barack Obama has set up a special team to interact with the State Department's Operations Centre as well as the office of the Director of National Intelligence to monitor the Mumbai terrorist attacks situation, CNN reported.

That information is then being filtered to Obama, who is getting regular updates at his residence in Chicago, it said citing an Obama aide.

He is scheduled to be home all day Thursday celebrating Thanksgiving with family and friends.

An Obama spokesman told reporters in Chicago that the president-elect had spoken by phone with both Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the Indian Ambassador to the US, Ronen Sen.