Posted on 06/09/2011 5:04:55 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
CHICAGO (AP) -- A federal jury convicted a Chicago businessman on Thursday of helping plot an attack against a Danish newspaper that printed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad but cleared him of the most serious charge accusing him of cooperating in the deadly 2008 rampage in Mumbai.
The jury reached its split verdict after two days of deliberations, finding Tahawwur Rana guilty of providing material support to terrorism in Denmark and to the Pakistani militant group that had claimed responsibility for the three-day siege in India's largest city that left more than 160 people dead, including six Americans.
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"Rana, a Canadian national who has lived in Chicago for years, faces up to 30 years in prison on the two charges."
At least we can deport this bastard after he serves his prison sentence.
And this. Immigration fraud somewhere in here I am sure: "...prosecutors claimed that Rana, 50, knew exactly what he was doing when he helped Headley. Rana, who did not testify, was on trial for allegedly allowing Headley to open a branch of his Chicago-based immigration law services business in Mumbai as a cover story..."
And how is it that a Canadian national is running an immigration law services office in OUR country? How does this all happen?
Deport him to India and he’ll face the gallows there: Hanged until dead, long-drop method.
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For The Record - The IPT Blog
“Chicago Businessman Found Guilty on Two Counts in Terrorism Trial”
SNIPPET: “A federal jury Thursday found a Pakistan-born Chicago businessman guilty on charges of participating in a conspiracy to attack a Danish newspaper and providing material support to the Pakistan-based terror group, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT).
Tahawwur Rana was acquitted on the charge of conspiring to provide material support to the November 2008 Mumbai terrorist strike that killed over 160 people, including six Americans.
The verdict came after two days of jury deliberations following a trial that began May 16.
Prosecutors alleged Rana’s immigration company provided cover to American Lashkar operative David Headley to scout targets for the Mumbai attacks. David Headley pleaded guilty last year to his role in plotting the attacks and was the prosecution’s star witness in the trial.
In his testimony, Headley said Rana knew about the plot and supported it. He also testified that members of Pakistan’s powerful intelligence services, the ISI, also helped plot and finance the attacks.
Headley’s testimony was corroborated by other evidence presented at the trial, including e-mails, tape recordings and videotaped admissions, Assistant U.S. Attorney Victoria Peters said in her closing arguments Tuesday.
Prosecutors also claimed Rana assisted Headley in a plot to attack the offices of the Danish newspaper, Jyllands Posten. The newspaper’s 2005 publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad had unleashed a wave of protests across the Muslim world.”
First line in report: A federal jury convicted a Chicago businessman on Thursday
I know it's AP, but, Sophia you have to do better than this.
Surely you jest!
Please read the second half of the sentence.
Bflr.
Yes, and read the headline again. He's been cleared. That's the important part. Remember that. Pay no attention to the conviction behind the curtain. HE WAS CLEARED!!!!
The editors, not the reporter, typically select the headline, RJL.
I agree, it does show bias.
I am sorry I don’t see any bias. The headlines is absolutely correct. He was CLEARED... of the most heinous crime he committed and convicted for a some small crime. It is only the jury here that is biased.
The "small crime" he was convicted of carries a 30-year sentence. So it's not that "small."
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