Posted on 12/14/2009 3:45:05 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A Pakistani-born Chicago businessman charged with helping plan an attack on a Danish newspaper knew about the assault on Mumbai in advance and discussed other potential targets in India, prosecutors said on Monday.
In arguing against releasing Tahawwur Rana from jail on bond, federal prosecutors in Chicago gave more details about a conversation authorities recorded earlier this year between Rana and accused conspirator David Headley.
In the September 7 conversation during a long car drive, Rana, 48, and Headley, 49, discussed Rana's meeting in Dubai days before the November 2008 attack on Mumbai with an associate referred to as "Pasha," the nickname for Abdur Rehman Hashim Syed, a retired major in the Pakistani military, prosecutors said.
Rana also asked Headley to pass his compliments on to the coordinator of the Mumbai attacks, which killed 166 people, the court filing said.
"Rana was told of the attacks before they happened and offered compliments and congratulations to those who carried them out afterwards," prosecutors said.
Travel records showed Rana, a Canadian citizen, was in Dubai days before the Mumbai attack, they said.
Headley, a U.S. citizen with Pakistani-American parentage, is accused of making five scouting trips to Mumbai on behalf of militant Pakistani groups including Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is blamed for the Mumbai assault. Headley allegedly used Rana's travel and immigration business as a cover during his trips.
Syed has been accused by U.S. authorities of being Headley's contact with Ilyas Kashmiri, described as "one of Pakistan's most wanted terrorists and a direct link to al Qaeda," in court documents.
Headley and Rana also discussed four other potential targets --
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How long before someone makes a credible (un-ignorable) connection between 0ba-Mao and a terrorist? Is there a pool going somewhere?
Yes, I know there are established connections to Hamas front men and orgs. But they have been ignored.
David Coleman Hedley, Chicago Crook.
AKA Galani,
Mumbai massacre tango 2008, heroine smuggler,DEA informant, DEA translator, half Paki,and someone ran interference for him to get him out of jail on a 2nd heroine conviction and work for the DEA in 1998, someone in Chicago.
Rana ,Halal Meat Butcher, Chicago shadowy figure, Paki Muslim ,support for Hedley out of Chicago ( plain tickets to packistan, false documents for Hedley.
Did Obama know these POSs back when he was a Chicago “community worker?”
I wouldn’t even blink an eye to find out it was so.
No surprise here either. There is a reason that Obama’s attorney client list has been perfectly hidden.
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