Terming India's response to the Mumbai terror attack as 'inadequate,' an influential policy advisor has suggested that New Delhi set up a body on the lines of America's National Counter-terrorism Center and the US could possibly render assistance in this regard.

While lauding the legislative step of setting up a national investigative agency, Ashley J Tellis, Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said the effort lacked on preventive aspects of terrorism.