Rana praised Mumbai attacks as ‘brilliantly’ done: Headley
May 26th, 2011 - 12:18 am ICT by IANSChicago, May 25 (IANS) Pakistan-born Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana, accused of supporting Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), termed the 2008 Mumbai attack as tactically being done “brilliantly”, a Chicago court was told Wednesday.
Taking the the stand for the third day as the prosecution’s star witness, self-confessed terrorist Pakistani American David Coleman Headley so described the reaction of his one-time friend Rana.
US-born Headley, son of a Pakistani father and an American mother, who changed his given name of Daood Gilani in 2006 to scout targets for the attack without arousing suspicion, testified Wednesday that Rana praised the attacks, saying “tactically, this was done brilliantly”.
Headley said Rana also praised a member of the LeT for the attacks.
Headley, who has testified to close coordination between Pakistani spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and LeT, is expected to face intense questioning from Rana’s lawyers later Wednesday.
Defence attorneys have called Headley manipulative and claimed that in implicating Rana, he “absolutely had additional motives, including protecting his wife”.
“There’s written proof that she knew and there’s not going to be that same proof where Dr. Rana’s concerned,” Rana’s attorney Charles Swift told reporters earlier this week.
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