http://www.investigativeproject.org/2919/trial-first-week-reinforces-pakistani
“Trial’s First Week Reinforces Pakistani Intelligence Suspicions”
by Abha Shankar
IPT News
May 27, 2011
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http://www.investigativeproject.org/2915/us-sees-lashkar-e-tayyiba-as-dangerous-as-al-qaida
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“U.S. Sees Lashkar-e-Tayyiba as Dangerous as al-Qaida”
by IPT News • May 27, 2011 at 12:34 pm
SNIPPET: “Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told top Indian security officials in New Delhi Friday that the Pakistan-based terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) is as much of a threat as al-Qaida.
“The LeT is ranked right up there with Al Qaeda and Al Qaeda-related groups as a terrorist organization, one that seeks to harm people and take innocent lives,” Napolitano said in a joint press conference with Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram. “In the US perspective, the LeT is an organization of the same ranking as the Al Qaeda-related groups.”
Napolitano’s assertion came in the midst of the trial of Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana, accused of complicity in the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people. A key witness in the trial, American-Pakistani David Coleman Headley, who has admitted to involvement in the attacks, has also implicated LeT and the Pakistani Intelligence service (ISI). LeT, however, denies any involvement.”
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http://www.investigativeproject.org/topics/51/lashkar-e-tayyiba
http://www.investigativeproject.org/2952/jury-deliberates-chicago-businessman-ties-to
“Jury Deliberates Chicago Businessman’s Ties to Mumbai, Denmark Plots”
by Abha Shankar
IPT News
June 8, 2011
SNIPPET: “Jury deliberations began Wednesday morning in the case of a Chicago businessman charged with aiding the November 2008 Mumbai terrorist strike. The attacks were carried out by armed militants from the Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT).
Tahawwur Rana’s immigration company provided cover to American Lashkar operative David Headley to scout targets for the attacks. Prosecutors say this was because he supported the attacks. Rana is charged with supporting the Mumbai plot, along with a plot in Denmark that was not carried out, and with support for the LeT.
Defense attorneys say he was manipulated by Headley, a childhood friend. Headley pleaded guilty in March 2010 and was the prosecution’s star witness in the trial. Headley admits making several trips to India to scout targets for the attacks, which killed more than 160 people, including six Americans.
“Rana helped Headley in his deadly plans,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Victoria Peters told jurors during closing arguments Tuesday. “He knows exactly who David Headley is and what David Headley is about and he fully approves.”
The trial garnered international attention because much of the testimony and evidence implicated Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence agency in the Mumbai plot. But in closing arguments, attorneys primarily focused on the actions of the defendant and his chief accuser.
Peters pointed to evidence, including e-mails, tape recordings and videotaped admissions, tying Rana to the Mumbai attacks and other plots. Those records show it was not just Headley’s word that led to Rana’s prosecution.”