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2011-06-11 India-Pakistan
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India says US Mumbai attacks acquittal 'no setback'
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[Dawn] India on Friday said it would press on with attempts to try a Pakistain-born Canadian citizen over the 2008 Mumbai attacks, despite a US jury finding him not guilty of involvement.
"I do not see it as a setback as our case is still under investigation," said the country's internal security secretary, U K Bansal, referring to Tahawwur Hussain Rana's acquittal in a Chicago court.
Rana was accused of allowing his immigration business to be used as cover for his friend David Coleman Headley to scout out potential targets in India's financial and entertainment capital before the attacks.
Headley testified against him but a jury on Thursday found there was insufficient evidence to convict.
Federal Sherlocks are preparing a case against both Rana and Headley, with a view to trying them in India, Bansal told news hounds in New Delhi.
"When the probe is over, we will produce the evidence in the court," he said, according to the Press Trust of India news agency.
A total of 166 people were killed and more than 300 maimed when 10 heavily-armed gunnies belonging to the banned, Pakistain-based group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) stormed Mumbai on November 26, 2008.
The sole surviving gunman, Pak national Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, was convicted of 'waging war' against India, murder, attempted murder and terrorism offences at a trial in Mumbai last year and sentenced to death.
Two Indian nationals who were on trial alongside him were acquitted of providing information to the attackers about targets, with their defence teams insisting that it was Headley who provided reconnaissance details.
But the trial judge ruled that implicating Headley was not admissible.
Rana still faces up to 30 years in jail, as the Chicago jury convicted him of helping the LeT to plan an attack on a Danish newspaper for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
Headley was locked away in 2009 and has admitted 12 terror charges after prosecutors agreed not seek the death penalty or allow him to be extradited to either India, Pakistain or Denmark to face related charges. 
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