Toronto: Pakistani-born Canadian citizen Tahawwur Hussain Rana and his accomplice David Headley are likely to admit during their trial in the US next month that they masterminded the Mumbai terror attack at the behest of Pakistan's spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), according to a report issued on Monday.
The trial of Rana and Headley begins in Chicago on May 16. It was postponed in February at the request of Rana's lawyer.
India-Pakistan tensions will likely be inflamed by a trial that's slated to begin in the United States next month: New court documents reveal that two terrorist operatives accused in the 2008 Mumbai massacre conspiracy are preparing to say they believed themselves to be working for Pakistani spies, according to the Globe and Mail newspaper here.
Controversial cartoons
Rana, 49, who runs an immigration service in Chicago with offices in New York and Toronto, was arrested last October for plotting to attack the Danish newspaper that published the controversial cartoons of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) in 2005.
Investigators found that Rana was also involved in helping David Headley, whose real name is Dawood Gilani, in plotting the Mumbai terror attacks of November 2008 which left 160 people dead. Headley had travelled to India to carry out surveillance work for the Lashkar-e-Taiba before the Mumbai terror attacks.
As India has all along suspected that ISI had a role in the terror attack, the report said: "Rana's trial threatens to lend an aura of credence to the suspicions of ISI complicity.
According to court documents, the jury will hear the two Chicago conspirators say they believed themselves to be working for both LeT and the ISI."
The trial of Rana and Headley begins in Chicago on May 16. It was postponed in February at the request of Rana's lawyer.
India-Pakistan tensions will likely be inflamed by a trial that's slated to begin in the United States next month: New court documents reveal that two terrorist operatives accused in the 2008 Mumbai massacre conspiracy are preparing to say they believed themselves to be working for Pakistani spies, according to the Globe and Mail newspaper here.
Controversial cartoons
Rana, 49, who runs an immigration service in Chicago with offices in New York and Toronto, was arrested last October for plotting to attack the Danish newspaper that published the controversial cartoons of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) in 2005.
Investigators found that Rana was also involved in helping David Headley, whose real name is Dawood Gilani, in plotting the Mumbai terror attacks of November 2008 which left 160 people dead. Headley had travelled to India to carry out surveillance work for the Lashkar-e-Taiba before the Mumbai terror attacks.
As India has all along suspected that ISI had a role in the terror attack, the report said: "Rana's trial threatens to lend an aura of credence to the suspicions of ISI complicity.
According to court documents, the jury will hear the two Chicago conspirators say they believed themselves to be working for both LeT and the ISI."
