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Chicago man gets 14 years for aiding Pakistani militant group
Source: Reuters
Chicago man gets 14 years for aiding Pakistani militant group
By Nick Carey
CHICAGO | Thu Jan 17, 2013 4:59pm EST
(Reuters) - A federal judge sentenced a Pakistani-born Chicago businessman on Thursday to 14 years in prison for providing support to an Islamic militant group blamed for the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks.
Tahawwur Rana, 52, a former Pakistani Army doctor with Canadian citizenship, had also been found guilty in June 2011 of conspiring to attack a Danish newspaper, a plot hatched by the militant group that was never carried out.
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Rana had been found guilty of providing support to the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, blamed for orchestrating 2008 attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people. He was not found to be complicit in the attacks.
In the trial, the key witness - Rana's childhood friend, David Headley - implicated Pakistan's intelligence agency, ISI, in the Mumbai attack.
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By Nick Carey
CHICAGO | Thu Jan 17, 2013 4:59pm EST
(Reuters) - A federal judge sentenced a Pakistani-born Chicago businessman on Thursday to 14 years in prison for providing support to an Islamic militant group blamed for the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks.
Tahawwur Rana, 52, a former Pakistani Army doctor with Canadian citizenship, had also been found guilty in June 2011 of conspiring to attack a Danish newspaper, a plot hatched by the militant group that was never carried out.
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Rana had been found guilty of providing support to the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, blamed for orchestrating 2008 attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people. He was not found to be complicit in the attacks.
In the trial, the key witness - Rana's childhood friend, David Headley - implicated Pakistan's intelligence agency, ISI, in the Mumbai attack.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/17/us-usa-security-rana-idUSBRE90G1C220130117
