Chicago: Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana has told a US court that his friend David Headley, convicted in 26/11 Mumbai attack, was an "unrepentant terrorist" and he had knowledge of latter's "link" with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). In his latest submission before a Chicago court, Rana, however, has challenged the Government's assertion that he does not require a fresh trail. Last year, a grand jury in Chicago had found Rana guilty of providing material...
12:36 AM, Mar 05, 2012
Chicago: Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana has told a US court that his friend David Headley, convicted in 26/11 Mumbai attack, was an "unrepentant terrorist" and he had knowledge of latter's "link" with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). In his latest submission before a Chicago court, Rana, however, has challenged the government's assertion that he does not require a fresh trail. In 2011, a grand jury in Chicago had found Rana guilty of providing material...
09:28 PM, Mar 04, 2012
Chicago: The US government has asked a court in Chicago to deny Pakistan-born Canadian Tahawwur Rana's plea for a new trial in cases related to the Mumbai and Denmark terror plots, arguing that the court was right in convicting him for aiding Lashkar-e-Taiba. In June 2011, after a three-week trial, 50-year-old Rana was convicted of providing material support to the banned LeT, and of conspiracy to provide material support to...
04:45 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Chicago: The US government has asked a court to deny Pakistan-born Canadian Tahawwur Rana's plea for a new trial in cases related to the Mumbai and Denmark terror plots, arguing that he has failed to demonstrate that the court erred in convicting him for aiding Lashkar-e-Taiba. In June last year, after a three-week trial, 50-year-old Rana was convicted of providing material support to the banned LeT, and of conspiracy to...
02:49 AM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: India is all set to ask the United States and Pakistan to extradite nine persons involved in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack that include Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley, LeT founder Hafiz Saeed and two ISI officers. Government sources said the extradition requests to the US and Pakistan will be sent "very soon" as all the nine persons were directly involved in the conspiracy as well as executing the...
07:03 PM, Jan 30, 2012
Mumbai: Three years after the Mumbai terror attacks, city police are still awaiting access to 26/11 conspirator David Headley and his alleged accomplice Tahawwur Rana, as a US court is yet to respond to letters rogatory of the Indian authorities. A metropolitan magistrate's court in Mumbai had issued letters rogatory to a US court in October, requesting it to enable Mumbai police to question Headley and Rana in the 26/11...
03:07 PM, Nov 20, 2011
Chicago: Pakistan born Canadian Tahawwur Rana, convicted for aiding the banned LeT terror group in a plot to attack a Danish newspaper, has sought a fresh trial saying he should have been given a separate hearing for charges tied to the 2008 Mumbai terror attack. Rana, 50, was acquitted of federal charges that he aided the terrorists who carried out the attacks in Mumbai after an eight-day trial in Chicago...
04:27 PM, Sep 21, 2011
New Delhi: The Lashkar-e-Toiba was planning more terror attacks across India after 26/11 according to the unsealed court records of Tahawwur Rana. The records reveal numerous conversations between David Headley in Chicago and Abdur Rehman Hashim Syed, the former Pakistani military officer known as 'Pasha' who became Headley's handler with the Lashkar. In all, 26 trial documents that had been kept secret due to US national security concerns were released...
08:01 AM, Jul 22, 2011
New Delhi: India will soon send a team to the United States to gather more information about the activities of Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Headley and his accomplice Tahawwur Hussain Rana, who are accused of giving material support to 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, and their confessional statements. However, the Indian team will not seek access to Headley and Rana. The decision has been taken after Union Home Secretary R K Singh...
08:31 PM, Jul 19, 2011
Washington: LeT operative David Headley wants his five-year-old son to one day become a soldier in Pakistani army's elite Special Service Group (SSG), which is known for its anti-India operations including the Kargil incursion and wars of 1965 and 1971. Headley, who was the star government witness in the Chicago trial of his childhood friend Tahawwur Rana in June, had been grooming his son keeping this in mind. So much...
10:25 AM, Jul 11, 2011
New Delhi: India will take a decision on seeking further access to Lashkar operative David Headley in the US after perusing the complete judgement of a Chicago court which acquitted Tahawwur Rana of charges of being involved in Mumbai terror attacks. Official sources said today that once the details of the decision of the jury comes out, the sleuths of National Investigation Agency (NIA) will have parleys with experts of...
06:23 PM, Jun 12, 2011
Washington: The US Government will not appeal against a Chicago court verdict which found Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana "not guilty" on charges related to his involvement in the Mumbai terrorist attacks, a ruling that was received with disappointment by India. "After sentencing, Rana may appeal his conviction on the two counts, but the government cannot appeal the jury's finding of not guilty on the Mumbai count," a Justice Department official told...
08:40 PM, Jun 11, 2011
Chicago: Chicago businessman Tahawwur Hussain Rana on Thursday was found not guilty on charges that he assisted in carrying out the 26/11 terrorist attacks in Mumbai that killed more than 166 people. However, he was convicted by the jury for his role in a thwarted plot targeting a Danish newspaper that printed controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Court spokesman Randall Samborn said, "Rana is convicted of providing material support...
03:50 AM, Jun 10, 2011
Chicago: US prosecutors on Tuesday defended a plea agreement with David Headley, co-accused in the Mumbai terror attacks, saying that this helped the FBI to extract invaluable information from him about LeT and other terrorist outfits and their leaders in Pakistan. Concluding her closing argument, government Attorney Vicky Peters told the jury that in the first two weeks of his arrest in 2009, Headley provided the entire leadership structure of...
11:33 PM, Jun 07, 2011
Chicago: Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana was involved in the Mumbai attacks and he and his friend David Headley were part of the same team that carried out the terror assault in 2008, a US Federal Attorney told a Chicago court. "Evidences flatly contradicts the defense argument that Rana was not part of it. Rana and Headley were part of the same team," the attorney said as the closing argument in the...
08:52 PM, Jun 07, 2011
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