Jury Picked in Tahawwur Rana's Chicago Terror Trial
Posted on Wed May 18, 2011 at 07:17:46 PM EST
Tags: Tahawwur Hussein Rana, David Headley, Pakistan's ISI (all tags)
An anonymous jury has been selected in the Chicago terror trial of Tahawwur Hussein Rana, charged with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in the Mumbai bombings and a planned attack on a Denmark news agency.
The jury is composed of 8 women and 4 men, most of whom are minorities. The six alternates include 4 men and 2 women.
Opening arguments begin Monday. The Government will be relying on the testimony of admitted co-plotter and former DEA informant David Coleman Headley, aka Daood Gilani. Both Headley and Rana have said current members of Pakistan's intelligence agency and former military officers were working in concert with the terrorists. All of our prior coverage is available here.
I wonder if the Government will be successful in keeping all references to the ISI and military out of the trial, or if we'll finally find out who Major Iqbal is.
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