Washington/New Delhi: Two leading boarding schools located in two prominent hill stations in the country are among targets of Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e- Taiba (LeT), a Home Ministry official said today.

According to intelligence input shared after interrogation of David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, arrested by the FBI for plotting a major terror attack in India at the behest of LeT, the terrorist group was planning to attack the two schools, he said.

Headley and Rana have stated that their targets included the prestigious the National Defence College here.

The official said the intelligence agencies gathered information about the possibility of LeT attacks a few weeks ago and forwarded it to the state government concerned for providing adequate security at the two schools.

Two Pakistan-born Chicago men have been charged with plotting to launch terrorist attacks in India and Denmark in association with LeT, a US court was told.

Federal prosecutors said Chicago businessman Tahawwura Hussain Rana discussed the attack on NDC with David Coleman Headley, a Pakistan-born American national.

Prosecutors told magistrate Judge Nan Nolan that the alleged discussion of an attack on the New Delhi-based premier military college for senior service and civil officers shows that Rana was serious about taking part in terrorism and wasn't merely Headley's dupe as Rana's lawyers contend.

Rana, a Pakistan-born Canadian national, and Headley, whose former name was Daood Gilani, are also charged with plotting to attack Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. The newspaper sparked outrage throughout the Muslim world in 2005 by publishing 12 cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

After a brief hearing Tuesday, the detention question was continued to Nov 10 before magistrate Judge Nolan.

The government's memorandum in support of Rana's detention pending trial said the planners of this attack included at least one member of LeT and Ilyas Kashmiri, who is affiliated with Al Qaeda, another terrorist organization that has been so designated since 1999.