School friends to collaborators in terror: The Rana Headley nexus

David Headley linked Dr. Tahawwur Rana to the 2008 Mumbai attacks, revealing their deep ties and Rana's role in facilitating Headley's operations.

In the early months of 2009--sometime between February and March--David Coleman Headley called his friend Dr Tahawwur Rana in Chicago to make him hear an audio tape in which at least five top commanders of the Pakistani terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) could be heard giving detailed instructions to the ten men who had been sent to Mumbai on a suicide mission in November 2008. One of the men particularly impressed Rana. This was Sajid Majid alias Sajid Mir alias Wasi,

NIA team with 26/11 accused Tahawwur Rana, near Patiala House Court, in New Delhi, India, on Thursday. (Sanjeev Verma)