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Rana, Headley indicted for 26/11 Mumbai attacks
Lalit K Jha
Washington, Jan 15 (PTI) Two Pakistani-origin
Chicago-residents, Tahawwur Hussein Rana and David Coleman
Headley were on Friday indicted by a federal grand jury in the
US on charges of plotting attack on a Danish newspaper and
helping plan the 26/11 Mumbai attacks that killed 163 people
including six American nationals.
The 12-count superseding indictment contains identical
charges that were filed against Headley, a US citizen, on
December 7 last year.
It adds Rana, a Canadian citizen, as a defendant in three
of the counts charging material support of the terrorism plots
in Denmark and India, as well as in support of terror outfit
Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Also indicted on conspiracy charges related to the
Denmark plot were Ilyas Kashmiri, an alleged terror kingpin in
Pakistan who is said to be in regular contact with Al-Qaeda
leaders and Abdur Rehman Hashim Syed, a retired major in the
Pakistani military, the US Department of justice said in a
statement. Neither man is in US custody.
Both Kashmiri and Abdur Rehman were charged in two
conspiracy counts relating to the Denmark terrorism plot.
Rana and Abdur Rehman were charged separately in previous
court filings, but Friday's indictment charges Kashmiri for
the first time, although he was identified by name in the
charges filed previously against Rana, Abdur Rehman and
Headley.
Rana, 49, has remained in federal custody in Chicago
since he was arrested on October 18 last year in connection
with the planned attack on a Danish newspaper. MORE PTI LKJ
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