Chicago Man Sent to Prison for 14 Years for Aiding Pakistani Terrorist Group

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A Chicago businessman was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Thursday for providing material support to overseas terrorist groups, including a Pakistani group that killed more than 160 people in Mumbai, India, in 2008. The businessman, Tahawwur Rana, a Canadian of Pakistani descent, was sentenced by Judge Harry D. Leinenweber of the United States District Court in Chicago. In 2011, jurors convicted Mr. Rana of providing support for the Pakistani group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and for supporting a plot to attack a Danish newspaper that printed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005. The plot was never carried out. Mr. Rana was cleared of the most serious charge of helping to plot the Mumbai attacks. The government’s main witness was David Coleman Headley, who had pleaded guilty to laying the groundwork for the Mumbai attacks. He is scheduled to be sentenced next week.