Born January, 1961, Pakistani-Canadian businessman/ military doctor, Tahawwur Hussain Rana is accused of participating in terrorism-related activities including the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that killed 160 people.
In 2023, the US Supreme Court approved his extradition to India to be tried for his role in the Mumbai attacks. President Donald Trump confirmed this decision on February 2025. The US extradited Rana on April 9. Upon his arrival the 64-year-old will be placed in a high-security ward in Tihar Jail, sources within the jail complex told 바카라.
Rana is a close associate of David Coleman Headley, an American citizen and one of the main conspirators behind the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. He is also a known member of the banned militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba. Apart from the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Rana is also implicated in a foiled attack on the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten which had published controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2009.
In 2008, Rana lived in Chicago, USA and owned an immigration law office First World Immigration Services and a butcher shop. Police alleges that he assisted Headley in scouting locations for the Mumbai attack. Rana is also accused of helping Headley plan the attacks in both India and Denmark. The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois acquitted Rana of direct involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, but was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment on January 17, 2013 for “providing material support for terrorism.”
Since he was lodged in an American prison, Rana was tried in absentia in a Mumbai court for his role in the 2008 attacks. Now that he is in the subcontinent, the National Investigation Agency has charged him with criminal conspiracy under the Indian Penal Code for facilitating the Mumbai attacks, waging war against India, and aiding and abetting murder and terrorism. If convicted, these charges would land him in prison for life, and also attracts the death penalty.
According to the NIA, Rana is Headley라이브 바카라 childhood friend and helped him coordinate the attacks with Headley and the LeT during multiple trips to India. This included reconnaissance missions at high-value targets such as the Taj Hotel and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus. Indian Intelligence reports claim that Rana was in contact with Headley at least 231 times before the attacks, apart from facilitating eight separate surveillance operations.
The US federal case against Rana is one of the first times that American authorities found a direct link between former Pakistani military officer and a terror plot.
In November 28, 2008, after the attacks, Rana reportedly was in touch with Headley, and asked the latter to pass along his congratulations to the terror group for their excellent planning and preparation.
The US federal authorities revealed that upon interrogation Rana told them he had travelled to Mumbai before the attacks and had stayed at the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower, one of the primary locations targeted by Lashkar-e-Taiba during the coordinated assault. He claimed that he had visited the hotel with his wife as part of his immigration consultancy business, where he conducted interviews with people wishing to emigrate to the US or Canada.
The US government has also provided evidence that Rana passed messages between Headley and one of his Pakistan-based operatives. In addition, Headley gave Rana a video produced by Al-Qaeda, which took responsibility for an attack on the Danish Embassy in Pakistan.
Rana's family have insisted on his innocence, saying he was pacifist, and framed by Headley for his involvement in terrorism
