Chicago Man Acquitted of Charge He Aided Mumbai Terror Plot
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A man convicted on two terrorism counts by a Chicago jury was acquitted of a third charge that he helped plotters of the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks that killed about 160 people over three days, including six Americans.
Tahawwur Rana, 50, a Canadian citizen and Pakistan native tried in federal court in Chicago, was found guilty yesterday of helping plan a never-executed attack on a Danish newspaper that in 2005 published inflammatory cartoons of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The jury of eight women and four men also convicted him of providing support to a Pakistani group the U.S. labeled a terrorist organization in 2001.