<http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Canadian+trial+reveal+terror+links/479407 6/story.html#ixzz1MkCNwl7q> http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Canadian+trial+reveal+terror+links/4794076 /story.html#ixzz1MkCNwl7q
Canadian's trial may reveal terror links Kanata man charged for role in Mumbai massacre By Ian MacLeod, Ottawa Citizen With Files From National Post And Citizen News Services May 17, 2011 This courtroom drawing shows Tahawwur Hussain Rana, who is accused of providing support for the 2008 Mumbai massacre. This courtroom drawing shows Tahawwur Hussain Rana, who is accused of providing support for the 2008 Mumbai massacre. Photograph by: Vera Sadock, AFP, Getty Images, Ottawa Citizen With Files >From National Post And Citizen News Services The terrorism trial of a Pakistani-Canadian is underway in Chicago amid widespread speculation it could tie Pakistan's shadowy intelligence agency to the 2008 Mumbai massacre. The case against Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a 50-year-old Chicago businessman who maintained a family home in Kanata, has the potential to shatter any remaining trust between the United States and Pakistan, as U.S. officials demand to know whether elements of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency harboured Osama bin Laden for nearly a decade. "This is going to be yet an-other brick in this very large wall of suspicion that we have about Pakistan," Khalil Marrar, a political-science professor at Chicago's DePaul University, told Agence FrancePresse. The trial is expected to pit Rana, who immigrated to Canada in 1997 and obtained citizenship in 2001, against his old Pakistani school friend, David Coleman Headley, who pleaded guilty last year to aiding and abetting the murder of U.S. citizens in the November 2008 attacks. He escaped the death sentence by agreeing to testify against Rana. Headley's anticipated testimony is expected to allege that Rana allowed Headley to use Rana's Chicago-based First World Immigration Service, with offices in Toronto and New York, as a cover for terrorism target surveillance trips in 2006 to India and Denmark. What's more, Headley is expected to tell the court the ISI was directly involved in planning the attack, provided training and funds to the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) and that an ISI officer gave him $25,000 to begin surveillance for the attacks. Headley officially changed his name from Daood Gilani to make it easier to travel overseas. The three-day siege in Mumbai by 10 gunmen killed 163 people, including two Canadians and six Americans. Rana has pleaded not guilty to charges of providing financial assistance and logistical support for the massacre. Jury selection began Monday and is expected to last up to a week. Opening statements are scheduled for next Monday. Experts say LeT was created with the ISI's help in the 1980s as a proxy fighting force to battle with India over the disputed Himalayan territory of Kashmir. Counter-terrorism officials say the group has since gained strength with the help of the ISI. Police and prosecutors allege Headley and Rana were following orders from LeT when Rana allowed Headley to open a First World office in Mumbai and travel as a supposed representative for the agency. The son of a Pakistani diplomat and an American socialite, Headley knew Rana from high school, when they both attended a military academy in Pakistan. Rana went on to become a medical assistant in the Pakistani army, before immigrating to Canada. He lived primarily in Chicago, but maintained a home with his father and a brother in Kanata and ran a number of small businesses in Canada and the U.S. Rana's lawyers have indicated they are prepared to argue their client agreed to support Headley's activities out of patriotism, because he was led to believe Headley was working for ISI and the government of Pakistan. U.S. prosecutors have charged four other people in the case. But they all remain fugitives and Rana will be the only defendant in court [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. 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