Friday, January 15, 2010

Illinois: New Charges in Terror Attacks

Two Chicago men were indicted on new charges stemming from a violent attack on a Danish newspaper and for the November 2008 terrorist rampage that killed 166 people in Mumbai. David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana were named in a 12-count superseding indictment that for the first time said Mr. Rana was in on the planning of the Mumbai attacks by a team of 10 terrorists. Both men are in federal custody in Chicago. A reputed terrorist leader, Ilyas Kashmiri, who has been linked to Al Qaeda and described as a leader of the Pakistani terrorist group Harakat-ul Jihad Islami, was also charged in the new indictment.

Read at the New York Times

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