15:01 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nA US man who scouted sites for the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks has testified in a separate trial that the Pakistani intelligence service aided the militant group that trained him.<\/p>\n
David Headley was giving evidence against Tahawwur Rana, who is accused of giving him cover to scout the sites.<\/p>\n
Chicago businessman Mr Rana has pleaded not guilty. His lawyers say he was tricked by Headley, a former friend.<\/p>\n
Headley has said he was trained by militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba.<\/p>\n
At the opening on Monday of Mr Rana’s trial for conspiring to plan the Mumbai terror attacks that left more than 160 dead, Headley said Lashkar-e-Taiba and Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency co-ordinated, but did not give specifics.<\/p>\n
Pakistan believes Headley is an unreliable witness and analysts expect Islamabad to flatly deny alleged links between militant groups and the Pakistani secret intelligence service.<\/p>\n
Mr Rana denies the 12 charges that have been levelled against him.<\/p>\n
‘Friends with a terrorist’<\/span><\/p>\nHis lawyers say he was tricked by Headley, a longtime friend from their days at a Pakistani military school. Mr Rana was arrested in 2009, and if convicted, he faces a life sentence.<\/p>\n
“David Headley… has been manipulating people for years. Dr Rana is by far and away not the first,” Mr Rana’s lawyer Charles Swift said in his opening statement.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors say that in 2006 Mr Rana allowed Headley to open an office of his Chicago-based immigration services firm in Mumbai, which Headley then used as cover to scout sites for the 2008 attack.<\/p>\n
“The defendant knew all too well that when Headley travels to a foreign country, people may die,” assistant US Attorney Sarah Streicker told jurors on Monday.<\/p>\n
“The defendant didn’t carry a gun or throw a grenade. In a complicated and sophisticated plot, not every player carries a weapon. People like the defendant who provide support are just as critical to the success.”<\/p>\n
Danish newspaper revenge<\/span><\/p>\nIn November 2008, a group of 10 gunmen the US says were trained by militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba attacked the Taj Mahal and Oberoi hotels, a Jewish centre and a major train station, each of which Headley had scouted in advance.<\/p>\n
In March 2010, Headley, a US citizen who spent much of his childhood in Pakistan, pleaded guilty to taking photographs and video of the targets. He could face up to life in prison and a $3m (\u00a31.86m) fine.<\/p>\n
In addition, prosecutors say Headley and Mr Rana plotted an attack, which was never carried out, on Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, in revenge for its printing of cartoons featuring images of the Prophet Muhammad.<\/p>\n
Also charged with planning the Mumbai attack are four Pakistanis, including one said by prosecutors to be a Pakistani intelligence officer. None are in US custody.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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