By Nick Carey
CHICAGO Thu Jan 17, 2013 4:59pm EST
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A government ascertain sentenced some sort of Pakistani-born Chicago business person on Thursday to age 14 a long time throughout jail for delivering support in order to an Islamic militant party held accountable for any toxic 2008 Mumbai attacks.
Tahawwur Rana, 52, a original Pakistani Army doctor with Canadian citizenship, had been discovered guilty inside June 2011 of conspiring that will assault your Danish newspaper, some sort of block hatched through the militant party in which ended up being for no reason carried out.
Judge Harry Leinenweber mentioned he or she received countless letters out of family members, pals yet others testifying of which Rana was a strong "intelligent gentleman willing to give assistance in the great distance to many, many people."
"What can be puzzling. is the way such a type associated with human being could easily get drawn in to a dastardly plot," Leinenweber explained along at the sentencing hearing.
Rana experienced happen to be identified disloyal connected with providing service to the militant number Lashkar-e-Taiba, blamed with regard to orchestrating 2008 violence in Mumbai that put to sleep 166 people. He hasn't been determined that they are complicit inside attacks.
In the actual trial, one of the keys enjoy - Rana's when we are children friend, David Headley - implicated Pakistan's intelligence agency, ISI, inside the Mumbai attack.
Headley pleaded guilty in order to scouting digs up for your Mumbai attackers sent by Lashkar-e-Taiba, that your U.S. State Department offers specified a terrorist organization. Headley, a good American with a Pakistani father, is a result of be sentenced on January 24.
The plot to attack the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten ended up being meant as retaliation for the paper's judgement around july 2004 in order to print 12 cartoons by way of various artists, most of which usually illustrate the actual Prophet Mohammad. The conspirators talked about beheading staff members of the paper.
Prosecutor Daniel Collins argued in the sentencing hearing than a hard sentence in your essay appeared to be necessary on account of the violent dynamics with the particular block which Rana was conscious of exactly what Lashkar represented.
"He knew they will possessed maintain upon their poker hands and yes it decided not to present your pet temporarily halt for the moment and he / she made it simpler for them," Collins said.
Rana's law firm argued how the businessman had endured your cardiovascular attack within living hell and what food was in normally very poor health, adding in which he seemed to be improbable that will depict a new danger to help society.
"He can be a fine male and obtained sucked in to something," Patrick Blegen explained in court. "But there's no chance in which he will practice it again, None."
Rana, that faced a optimum word with 30 many years within prison, seated quietly during the entire experiencing and declined to correct that appraise just before sentencing. Rana's safety group plan to be able to lure his / her conviction and reported they would focus on regardless of whether in order to elegance this sentence.
(Reporting By Nick Carey ; Editing by simply Cynthia Johnston and also Andrew Hay)
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