Pakistani-Canadian citizen charged over Mumbai attacks

A Pakistani-Canadian citizen Tahawwur Hussain Rana was indicted by a US grand jury for his alleged role in the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India that killed more than 160 people.Prosecutors allege that 39 year old Tahawwur Hussain Rana helped his friend David Coleman Headley, a key suspect in the Mumbai attacks, by allowing him to use his immigration company as a cover for surveillance trips to India and Denmark. Rana was also charged with three separate counts of providing material support for terrorism in the Mumbai attacks, the Denmark terror plot, and to the banned Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba. Also indicted on conspiracy charges related to the Denmark plot were Ilyas Kashmiri, an alleged terror kingpin in Pakistan who prosecutors accuse of being in regular contact with Al-Qaeda leaders, and Abdur Rehman Hashim Syed, a retired major in the Pakistani military and neither man is in US custody.