http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/001695.html
December 23, 2009
“WHY INVESTIGATORS NEED TO FOCUS MORE ON RANA”
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http://ramanstrategicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/12/need-to-focus-more-on-rana.html
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2009
“NEED TO FOCUS MORE ON RANA
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR-—PAPER NO. 593”
B.RAMAN
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-terror-rana-immigrationjan03,0,6207893.story
“Chicago immigration agency a front for terror plot, federal probers allege
U.S. probe targets operations of First World Immigration”
By Antonio Olivo
Tribune reporter
January 3, 2010
SNIPPET: “Federal prosecutors charge that the Immigration center served as a front in a Chicago-based terror plot to bomb a Danish newspaper that in 2005 outraged Muslims worldwide when it published unflattering caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
First World’s owner, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, also knew in advance of plans for the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, India, which killed 172 people, federal prosecutors allege.
Randall Samborn, spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago, said last week that federal authorities are working to determine the Immigration status of people who entered the U.S. with the agency’s help. The alleged plot is one of several cases raising new concerns about U.S.-based terror plots.
Rana, who also owns a grocery store in Chicago and a halal meat plant in Kinsman, Ill., is in federal custody. He was arrested in October, along with another Chicagoan, David Coleman Headley, an alleged scout in the Denmark and Mumbai plots.”
SNIPPET: “Friends say First World is popular among Pakistani and Indian immigrants.
“(Rana) is a very kind-hearted person,” said Raja Muhammad Yaqub.
Yaqub, who knows Rana through their mosque...”