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Tahawwur Hussain Rana, allegedly co-conspirador of Mumbai attacks 26/11, is a former Pakistani army doctor who helped terrorist networks through their immigration business.
Tahawwur Rana was extradited to India for alleged role in the attacks of Mumbai 26/11. (File image)
Tahawwur Hussain Rana, alleged co-conspirator in the terrorist attacks of Mumbai 26/11, arrived in Delhi on Thursday afternoon in a special plane in which he was extradited from the United States. A doctor born in Pakistani who once put on the uniform of the medical body of the Army of Pakistan, the transformation of frog from a healer to a horror facilitator is read as a chilling archive or fanaticism, covert intelligence and global intrigue.
Born in the Sahiwal district of Pakistan in the province of Punjab, he grew up under the influence of a father who insisted that medicine pursues, as well as Tahawwur ranly tamed dreams of joining security services. Hi, he obtained his doctor’s degree and was commissioned in the medical wing of the Pakistan army.
By 1998, Rana left the army and moved to Canada, allegedly at the request of intelligence between services (ISI). There, he established an immigration services business, which researchers believe he doubled as a front for espionage and surveillance. Its Canadian citizenship did not come from altruism or ambition in the field of medicine, but as part of a broader strategy to develop global mobility and access, tools that would later become afuls to facilitate terrorist networks.
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In all, Rana moved to Chicago, where he expanded his business and opened an office. It was there that he connected with David Coleman Headley, an American of Pakistani ancestry and a central figure in Mumbai’s attacks. Later, his association was critical for the recognition efforts of Lashkar-E-Taiba in India.
Headley, now complying with a prison sentence in the United States, confessed to the realization of surveillance at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel and other objectives in Mumbai in Rana’s Ben. He used frog immigration business as a cover to travel and operate easily. The researchers believe that Rana, fully aware of Headley’s activities, was convenient in the planning of the logistics of the attacks that killed some 170 people in November 2008.
Rana himself traveled to India with a tourist visa, accompanied by his wife, Samraj Rana Akhtar. Duration of his visit, toured Delhi, Mumbai, Agra, Kochi and Ahmedabad. Thought to pass by a doctor, the officials now believe that Rana was carrying out a preliminary recognition under the radar.
What distinguishes Rana is not only his betrayal to his medical oath, but the calculation of the cold with which he changed the roles, from the military doctor to the alleged ISI asset, from the immigration consultant to the terrorist logistics coordinator. The US authorities arrested him for the first time in 2009 for separate positions related to a frustrated terrorist plot in Denmark aimed at the Jyllands-Posts newspaper. Duration that investigation, left to the case of Mumbai appeared. He thought that his cooperation with the US authorities was limited, to Indian intelligence agencies were given access to the letter to interrogate him while he was in American custody.
The National Research Agency (NIA) has long considered Rana a key gear in the machinery that allowed the attacks 26/11. After a prolonged legal battle, the United States courts on Wednesday, April 9, clarified the way for extradition to India.
