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Chicago, June 6 (IANS) As the prosecution Monday rested its case against Pakistan-born Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana, who is accused of helping Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in the Mumbai terror attack, jurors were shown his videotaped interrogation.

Roughly ten minutes of the video was played in Chicago Federal court. Rana, who had waived his rights to remain silent, spoke quietly and calmly to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and without his attorney present, ABC News reported.

On the tape, Rana has dark brown hair. Two years later, his hair and beard are both white.

Rana, who is accused of providing the cover of his immigration business to Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley for scouting targets for the Mumbai attacks, was questioned for almost six hours after his arrest Oct 18, 2009.

Some of the questioning involves Rana’s ties to Headley aka Daood Gilani, who testified about Rana’s role in attack and an attack plan on a Denmark newspaper that published cartoons of Prophet Muhammad in 2005.

Prosecutors Monday rested after calling the last of eight total witnesses in the case against Rana.

Rana’s defence attorneys now begin their case and say they’ll call witnesses, including a computer expert. Rana himself isn’t expected to testify.