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Los Angeles: Muslim businessman arrested, faces murder charges in India in Mumbai jihad attacks

Jun 24, 2020 8:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Since 2009, Pakistani-born Canadian Tahawwur Rana has been under investigation by the FBI for possible links to the Mumbai jihad bombings. Meanwhile, he went on living in both the U.S. and Canada: his primary residence was in Chicago, but he spent “Islamic holidays at a suburban Ottawa house backing onto the Kanata Lakes Golf and Country Club.”

Jihadists and their enablers have for years infiltrated the West. This arrest of Tahawwur Rana, who has up to now for over a decade managed to dodge justice in connection with his role in the Mumbai jihad attacks, is a new reminder of that.

“Ex-businessman facing murder charges in Mumbai terror attack,” by Brian Melley, Associated Press, June 19, 2020:

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Chicago businessman imprisoned for aiding terrorist groups has been arrested in Los Angeles to face murder charges in India for the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that killed more than 160 people, U.S. prosecutors said Friday.

Tahawwur Rana, a Pakistani-born Canadian, has been charged in India with conspiring to plot and carry out the deadly attacks that are sometimes referred to as India’s 9/11.

Rana, 59, was convicted of a terrorist charge connected to the group behind the Mumbai slayings, though U.S. prosecutors failed to prove he directly supported the four-day rampage.

Rana was serving a 14-year sentence when he was granted early release from a Los Angeles federal prison last week because of poor health and a bout of coronavirus. But he never got out of prison before being arrested to face extradition to India, prosecutors said.

He has been charged with murder and murder conspiracy in India, according to court documents. A request for comment from Rana’s public defender was not immediately returned.

Rana was convicted in Chicago in 2011 of providing material support to the Pakistani terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which planned the India attack, and for supporting a never-carried-out plot to attack a Danish newspaper that printed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005. The cartoons angered many Muslims because pictures of the prophet are prohibited in Islam.

Jurors cleared Rana of a more serious charge of providing support for the attacks in Mumbai, India’s largest city, that killed 166, injured nearly 240 and caused $1.5 billion in damage.

Rana’s lawyer said at trial that he had been duped by his high school buddy, David Coleman Headley, an admitted terrorist who plotted the Mumbai attacks. The defense called Headley, the government’s chief witness who testified to avoid the death penalty, a habitual liar and manipulator.

Rana was accused of allowing Headley to open a branch of his Chicago-based immigration law business in Mumbai as a cover story and travel as a representative of the company in Denmark.

Prosecutors said Rana knew Headley had trained as a terrorist. Headley shared information of the scouting missions he conducted in Mumbai and of the Taj Mahal Palace hotel, where gunmen later slaughtered dozens of people.

Headley, who was born in the U.S. to a Pakistani father and American mother, said his hatred of India dated to his childhood when his school in Pakistan was bombed by Indian military planes during a war between the countries in 1971…..

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Filed Under: Canada, Featured, India, United States Tagged With: Chicago, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Mumbai jihad massacre, Tahawwur Rana


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  1. shortfattexan says

    Jun 24, 2020 at 10:04 am

    The charges against this man make no sense at all. He could not possibly be a terrorist. He was a successful, at least moderately wealthy, businessman. And everyone knows that terrorism is caused solely by poverty and social injustice, and has absolutely nothing to do with Islam. CNN told me that, so I know it must be true.

    • Mary says

      Jun 24, 2020 at 11:19 am

      Hope that was ment sarcastically

      • keith O says

        Jun 24, 2020 at 4:20 pm

        Mary
        I haven’t had my coffee yet and even I can tell he’s being sarcastic!

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 24, 2020 at 9:17 pm

        Yes, this was sarcasm.

    • infidel says

      Jun 25, 2020 at 1:20 pm

      Now this is superb…

  2. keith O says

    Jun 24, 2020 at 4:23 pm

    Some more good news, now this vermin and all his inbred associates can start to get the message that civilized nations will not stop till they are removed from the face of mother earth.

  3. ElderlyZionist says

    Jun 24, 2020 at 5:02 pm

    “…he never got out of prison before being arrested to face extradition to India…”

    Good.

    The Indians hanged the sole surviving Mumbai raider, after a very fair trial and conviction. I hope this murderer also sees justice.

  4. gravenimage says

    Jun 24, 2020 at 9:19 pm

    Los Angeles: Muslim businessman arrested, faces murder charges in India in Mumbai jihad attacks
    ……………………

    Glad that this murderous Jihadist is being extradited to India. Good for the US!

  5. Linde Barrera says

    Jun 25, 2020 at 1:33 pm

    It just boggles my mind that so many
    Muslims world-wide consider it a “holy
    duty” to kill non-Muslims in the name of
    the doctrine they embrace, Islam. They
    must be brain-washed, and this
    phenomenon is a real threat to civilized
    living. So much for critical thinking! A
    person with a normal thought process
    would say: “If Allah created all human life,
    then why does Allah tell Muslims to kill
    non-Muslims?” (Verses 8:12 and 9:5.)

    My conclusion is: Allah is Satan the devil.
    Those of us who do not embrace Islam
    must help Muslims see that their Allah
    is actually Satan the devil and Satan will
    use any person if that person stops doing
    good deeds and obeys Satan. This
    qualifies under all the Quranic verses that
    state “Allah is forgiving and merciful.”
    😈

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 27, 2020 at 2:13 am

      Yes–there is nothing *less* forgiving and merciful than the vicious “Allah”.

  6. UVG says

    Jun 29, 2020 at 4:29 am

    I wish stories like this were on prime time news in India.

    Perhaps one day India will wake up and realize that it is up against a single headed 3 tailed snake.

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