Three men charged over 2008 Mumbai attacks in US
US charges a retired Pakistani army officer Abdur Rehman and Ilyas Kashmiri, a leader of the outlawed Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba and a Chicago man David Coleman Headley with plotting the 2008 attacks in Mumbai.
Ilyas Kashmiri, Abdur Rehman and Tahawwur Rana have been also charged with planning an attack a newspaper.
Last October, Tahawwur Rana and David Coleman Headley, both 49 and residents of Chicago, were arrested and charged with plotting overseas attacks, including on the Danish newspaper. Both men have denied the charges.
The attacks left 174 people dead, including nine gunmen, dead.
As report say,Abdur Rehman is believed to be living in Pakistan, while Ilyas Kashmiri is said to be living in the Pakistani tribal areas in Waziristan.
Tahawwur Rana is a native of Pakistan and citizen of Canada, was arrested at his home on 18 October.
He is alleged to have helped Mr Headley plan and finance the Mumbai attacks, and faces up to 15 years in jail.
Headley, a Pakistani-American, has been charged with six counts of conspiracy to bomb public places in India, to murder and injure people in India and Denmark, to provide material support to foreign terrorist plots, and to provide material support to the militant group.
Headley changed his name from Daood Gilani in 2006, was arrested on 3 October as he was about to travel to Pakistan following a joint investigation by the FBI and the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (Pet).
US prosecutors say Mr Headley travelled to Denmark twice to plan an attack on the Jyllands-Posten newspaper offices.
Source: BBC
