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Tahawwur Rana Dept: 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, according to Montreal Gazette. Prosecutors are asking for the maximum 30 years, which, at his age, could amount to a life term and 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. 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. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.