Tahawwur Rana – the conspirator of 26/11 attacks in Mumbai, arrested in Los Angeles.
US prosecutors failed to prove that Rana was directly supporting the three-day rampage but still may face extradition to India.
On Friday, Tahawwur Rana, a Pakistan born Canadian businessman, who spent more than 10 years in prison for supporting & helping terrorist groups, was arrested in Los Angeles on charges of murder for 26/11 attacks in Mumbai, India, in the year 2008. The devastating attack on globally famous places of Mumbai & the killings is sometimes also called India’s 9/11. Over 160 innocent people were killed in the 26/11 attacks. Rana was convicted of terrorist charges in connection to the group behind the 26/11 attacks.
Back in 2011, Rana was convicted of providing material support to Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistani terror group, which planned the vicious attack on India, and for aiding a never-carried-out plot to attack a Danish newspaper, which had cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad printed in their paper in 2005. World-over the Muslims were enraged by this as it is prohibited in Islam to draw or paint, print or see the pictures of the prophet.
The 59-year-old was serving a 14-year sentence in a Los Angeles federal prison when he was released last week due to poor health and a possible Coronavirus infection, before getting arrested to face extradition to India.
Tahawwur Rana linked with David Coleman Headley:
In the court, it was alleged by the prosecutors that Rana knew David Coleman Headley had trained as a terrorist. Rana was also alleged of permitting Headley to open a branch his Chicago-based immigration law business in Mumbai as a cover-up & travel to Denmark as the company’s representative. Headley shared information with Rana of his scouting visits to Mumbai.
However, the juror cleared Rana of the charges as Rana’s lawyers said he had been duped by his high school buddy Headley and that Headley had testified against Rana only to avoid a death penalty.
