A former Chicago businessman has been arrested in Los Angeles on charges of murder in India in connection with the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, US prosecutors said Friday.
Canadian Tahawur Rana of Pakistani origin has been accused of conspiring and executing a number of deadly attacks in India, sometimes called 9-11 in India.
59-year-old Rana has been convicted of terrorism linked to the group behind the Mumbai murder, although US prosecutors have failed to prove that they supported the four-day truce.
Rana is serving a 14-year sentence for his release from a Los Angeles federal prison last week due to a lack of health and a coronavirus. The prosecution said he did not get out of jail before being extradited from India.
According to court documents, he was charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder in India. Rana's request for comment from the public defender was not immediately returned.
Rana was convicted of providing material assistance to the Pakistani terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba in Chicago in 2011, who had planned the Indian invasion, and never attacked Mohammed's prophet, the Danish newspaper print cartoons. In 2005 to support a conspiracy not to comply. Cartoons angered many Muslims because the images of the Prophet were banned in Islam.
The attacks in Mumbai, India's largest city, killed 166 people, injured 240, and caused $ 1.5 billion in damage.
Rana's lawyer said at the trial that his high school friend David Coleman Headley had assaulted a terrorist in the Mumbai attacks. The defense, known as Headley, is the government's main witness, testifying to the death penalty, habitual lying, and fraudulent activity.
Rana is accused of allowing Headley to open a branch of Chicago's immigration law business in Mumbai as a cover story and travel to Denmark as a company representative.
Prosecutors said Rana knew that Headley had been trained as a terrorist. Headley shared details of his scouting mission in Mumbai and at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, where dozens of gunmen were killed.
The father of Pakistan and the US. Headley, who was born in India to India, said his hatred for India was childish when his school bombed a school in Pakistan during the 1971 war between nations.
In the months following the Mumbai attacks, Headley, who was not involved in the attacks, said in a court document that he was "with the Indians." Rana said they deserved it.
Headley was sentenced to 35 years in prison for conspiracy to commit murder. He cannot be extradited to India as part of his appeal.
Only one in 10 Mumbai terrorists survived the attack and went on trial. He was convicted and sentenced to death in India.
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