By Nick Carey
CHICAGO Thu Jan 17, 2013 4:59pm EST
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A national judge sentenced a Pakistani-born Chicago businessman on Thursday to fourteen ages within prison intended for offering assist to help an Islamic militant group held responsible with the toxic 2008 Mumbai attacks.
Tahawwur Rana, 52, a former Pakistani Army medical professional with Canadian citizenship, acquired already been identified responsible throughout June 2011 associated with conspiring that will infiltration a Danish newspaper, a display hatched with the militant number that's under no circumstances toted out.
Judge Harry Leinenweber claimed he attained countless albhabets from friends and family members, close friends and also others testifying of which Rana ended up being a great "intelligent man prepared produce assistance inside a easy way to many, numerous people."
"What is actually puzzling. is how these kinds of man or women could receive taken into a dastardly plot," Leinenweber mentioned at the sentencing hearing.
Rana had been determined guilty with offering service in order to the militant party Lashkar-e-Taiba, blamed to get orchestrating 2008 attacks inside Mumbai this harmed 166 people. He wasn't observed to get complicit within the attacks.
In your trial, that essential witness - Rana's when we are children friend, David Headley - implicated Pakistan's data agency, ISI, inside the Mumbai attack.
Headley pleaded guilty to help scouting spots pertaining to that Mumbai attackers directed by simply Lashkar-e-Taiba, which that U.S. State Department includes designated some sort of terrorist organization. Headley, a good American using a Pakistani father, as a result of often be sentenced about January 24.
The plot to infiltration your Danish paper Jyllands-Posten appeared to be suitable as retaliation for the paper's decision throughout 2005 to release 12 cartoons by various artists, almost all of that outline the particular Prophet Mohammad. The conspirators reviewed beheading workers of that paper.
Prosecutor Daniel Collins argued during the sentencing hearing this a new harsh phrase seemed to be vital with the violent mother nature in the block and also that Rana was alert to precisely what Lashkar represented.
"He understood that they have maintain upon their hands and wrists and it also decided not to give him temporary stop to get a point in time and they made it simpler for them," Collins said.
Rana's legal representative argued that will the particular businessman experienced endured your soul attack in prison in addition to has been with normally very poor health, incorporating of which he or she appeared to be impossible for you to symbolize a danger that will society.
"He is a superb man and also acquired drew into something," Patrick Blegen mentioned with court. "But there is not any probability which he'll exercise again, None."
Rana, exactly who experienced a greatest sentence in your essay of 30 many years in prison, sat quietly during the entire hearing along with rejected to be able to handle the particular appraise just before sentencing. Rana's safeguard company plan to appeal their confidence and mentioned they might focus on whether or not to help draw the actual sentence.
(Reporting By Nick Carey ; Editing by way of Cynthia Johnston in addition to Andrew Hay)
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