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The South Asian Insider

Tahawwur Hussain Rana, has told Mumbai Crime Branch, as per widely circulating media reports



Tahawwur Hussain Rana, has told Mumbai Crime Branch, as per widely circulating media reports that:
1) He and his friend and aide David Coleman Headley had several training sessions with Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba.
2) He was in Mumbai during the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and he was part of the terrorists' plan.
3) The idea of opening an immigration center of his firm in Mumbai was his, and financial transactions in it were also done as business expenses.
4) The LeT (Lashkar e Taiba) mainly worked as a spy network.
64 year old Rana further said he inspected places like Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus and believed that the 26/11 attacks were carried out in collaboration with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
Rana is in NIA (National Investigative Agency) , custody in Delhi's Tihar Jail. Rana, a Pakistani-origin Canadian, was extradited to India earlier this year. His extradition followed the April 4 dismissal of his review petition by the US Supreme Court.
The 26/11 Mumbai attacks, carried out by 10 Pakistani terrorists, resulted in the deaths of 166 people over a nearly 60-hour siege targeting prominent landmarks including the Taj and Oberoi hotels, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus and the Jewish center Nariman House.