Chicago: Tahawwur Rana

Chicago Dept: CHICAGO - A Chicago businessman prosecutors say is a terrorist who supported the group that staged an attack often called India's 9-11 faces decades in prison Thursday if a federal judge rejects defence arguments that he is a compassionate man who was duped by a friend, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Defence attorneys are seeking no more than nine years in prison during the Pakistani-born Canadian's sentencing hearing Thursday in U.S. District Court in Chicago and fILE - In this June 7, 2011 file courtroom sketch, Chicago businessman Tahawwur Rana, left, appears in federal court in Chicago. Rana is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday, Jan 17, 2013, in Chicago for backing terrorism in Denmark and supporting a Pakistani terrorist group that staged deadly attacks on Mumbai, India, in 2008. AP Photo/Tom Gianni, File Tahawwur Rana, 52, is being sentenced for his 2011 convictions of providing support to a Pakistani group that carried out a 2008 attack in Mumbai, India, that killed 160 people, as well as for his role in backing a never-carried-out plot to attack a Danish newspaper that printed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.