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CHICAGO – solon details most plotting behind the deadly 2008 city attacks — and questionable status by a Asiatic crusader assemble and the country's largest info authority — were due to emerge weekday as the government's grapheme attestator returned to the stand in the federal terrorism effort of a metropolis businessman.

The effort of bourgeois Tahawwur Rana is being intimately watched around the concern for what the attack's expert — Rana's longtime someone king Coleman Headley — strength expose most doable course between the anti-India crusader group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency, famous as the ISI.

Headley already has pleaded blameable to birthing the groundwork for the city attacks, and he agreed to declare against Rana to refrain the death penalty, making him digit of the most priceless U.S. polity counterterrorism witnesses. His evidence was due to uphold Tuesday.

What Headley says during the effort could heat tensions between Pakistan and Bharat and place more pressure on the already frayed U.S. and Asiatic relations. His evidence also could add to the questions most Pakistan's dedication to catch terrorists and the ISI's connections to Pakistan-based imp groups, especially after Osama containerful Laden was killed by U.S. forces in a expeditionary garrison municipality outside Islamabad early this month.

The Asiatic polity has denied the ISI orchestrated three-day blockade in city that mitt more than 160 people dead, including six Americans. Asiatic info officials hit not commented on the trial.

Headley, a Pakistani-American, careful for jurors weekday how he spent months making enter surveillance and transcription GPS locations of sites in Mumbai, including the Taj hotel and dish landings. He testified that he also traveled to Pakistan numerous times to debrief with insiders of Lashkar-e-Taiba and ISI.

"They integrated with each other and ISI provided assistance to Lashkar," said Headley, who told jurors he prototypal started training with Lashkar in 2000.

Headley said that in Pakistan he met with a man by the study of "Major Iqbal," who was described as employed for the ISI, and with Headley's Lashkar handler, Sajid Mir. Both Asiatic men, along with four others, are live in absentia in a federal indictment, but Rana is the only digit on trial. He has pleaded not guilty.

Prosecutors allege that Rana, a river citizen who runs a Chicago-based immigration and accumulation services business, permit Headley open an duty in city and movement as a allegoric of the consort while he scouted for the attacks where gunmen arrived by dish for a three-day siege. Rana is also accused of helping arrange movement and other help for Headley, who planned an attack that never happened on a Danish newspaper. The Jyllands-Posten production in 2005 printed cartoons of Prophet Muhammad that furious Islamic worldwide because pictures of the seer are prohibited in Islam.

Rana and Headley, both 50, met as classmates at a prestigious expeditionary departure school in Pakistan and hit stayed in touch. Defense attorneys told jurors their client was taken plus of by his longtime someone and did not know what was in store. But Assistant U.S. Attorney Sarah Streicker said Rana was not duped and knew of the plans, both in city and Denmark.

Defense attorneys were due scrutinize Headley's quality as a witness, locution he has been impelled to modify his story and that he was employed for the U.S. polity modify as he said he was employed for Lashkar and ISI.

Headley, dropped Daood Gilani in the U.S., has also been an informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration after a drug conviction.

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