[JURIST] Judge Harry Leinenweber of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois [official website] on Thursday issued a 35-year prison sentence [DOJ press release] to David Coleman Headley for his role in the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, India [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. Headley, a US citizen of Pakistani descent, facilitated the attack [AP report] by conducting scouting missions in Mumbai for the Pakistani-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) [CFR backgrounder], which eventually carried out the attack....
Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/01/federal-judge-sentences-us-citizen-to-35-years-for-role-in-mumbai-terror-attack.php
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