Chicago Man Guilty In Mumbai Plot

Reuter reports:

A jury on Thursday found a Pakistani-born Chicago businessman guilty of supporting an Islamic militant group blamed for the 2008 attack in Mumbai but not guilty of the more serious charge of helping plot the attack that killed 166.

The jury also found Tahawwur Rana, 50, a former Pakistan Army doctor with Canadian citizenship, guilty of conspiring to attack a Danish newspaper, a plot that was never carried out.

In the trial, held in federal court in Chicago, a key witness implicated Pakistan's intelligence agency, ISI, in the Mumbai attack.

The witness was Rana's childhood friend, David Headley, who testified that Rana had provided help as Headley scouted targets in India.

Rana was charged with three counts of providing material support for terrorism.

In five days of testimony, Headley, 50, an American with a Pakistani father, related how he plotted the Mumbai attack with his handlers from the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, an agent from Pakistan's Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and a retired Pakistani Army officer.

Lashkar-e-Taiba is designated by the U.S. State Department as a terrorist organization.