A court in Chicago will on Thursday sentence Pakistani-American Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist David Coleman Headley for his role in 2008 Mumbai terror attacks and plot to attack a Danish newspaper. He, however, is likely to avoid life imprisonment. Citing the "significant cooperation" Headley showed in helping the US government in its effort to combat terrorism, US federal prosecutors had sought only 30 to 35 years in prison for him. ...
11:57 AM, Jan 24, 2013
A Chicago businessman prosecutors say is a terrorist - who supported the group that staged an attack often called India's 9/11 - faces decades in prison on January 17 if a federal judge rejects defense arguments that he is a compassionate man who was duped by a friend. Tahawwur Rana, 52, is being sentenced for his 2011 convictions of providing support to a Pakistani group that carried out a 2008...
12:53 PM, Jan 17, 2013
New York: The New York Police Department targeted Muslim mosques with tactics normally reserved for criminal organisations, according to newly obtained police documents that showed police collecting the license plates of worshippers, monitoring them on surveillance cameras and cataloging sermons through a network of informants. The documents, obtained by The Associated Press, have come to light as the NYPD fends off criticism of its monitoring of Muslim student groups and...
10:51 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Oslo: The accused ringleader of a terror plot in Norway has rejected charges that he conspired with al Qaeda to attack a Danish newspaper, saying he was planning a solo raid against the Chinese Embassy in Oslo. Mikael Davud, a Chinese Muslim, told the Oslo district court on Thursday his two alleged accomplices helped him acquire bomb-making ingredients but didn't know he was planning an attack. The trio was arrested...
07:59 AM, Nov 18, 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: International pressure in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks led Lashkar-e-Taiba to abandon its plan to attack a Danish newspaper in retaliation to the publication of a cartoon of Prophet Mohammed, David Coleman Headley told a court on Tuesday. Deposing before a federal court in Chicago, Mumbai attacks suspect David Headley, said he was told by one of his handlers in Pakistan, Sajid Mir, during a visit to Lahore...
09:46 AM, May 25, 2011
London: Among other key issues, India's senior batsman Rahul Dravid will speak on his experiences of facing the pink cricket ball and the general quality of pitches across the world during the MCC World Cricket Committee meeting, to be held at Lord's on July 18-19. Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS), Corruption in cricket, Governance of the game are some of the other issues the MCC World Cricket Committee would discuss...
03:37 PM, Feb 12, 2008
New Delhi: Kolkata Knight Riders captain Gautam Gambhir would be keen to prove a point by putting up a solid performance against his old franchise Delhi Daredevils when the two teams square off in an Indian Premier League match at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium on Thursday. Gambhir, who got a cold shoulder from Daredevils during the Players Retention and auctions, will definitely want to make a stament and a...
11:19 AM, Jan 19, 2008
