November 4, 2009 11:53 AM

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Headley and Rana were planning to attack National Defence College in New Delhi

David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana arrested last month by the FBI were planning to attack the National Defence College in New Delhi. Federal prosecutors have said in Washington that they were also part of a Pak-based terror outfit Lashkat-e-Toiba's plan of a major terror attack on the facilities of a Danish newspaper. Opposing the bail application of Rana before a Chicago court on Tuesday, attorneys from the US Department of Justice said, he is a danger to the community and might leave the country, if released. Rana faces a maximum sentence of 30 years, if proved guilty. Pakistani-born Canadian citizen and a resident of Chicago, Rana was arrested by the FBI on terror charges along with his school friend Headley, a US citizen, who was also arrested on the charges of plotting attacks in Denmark and India. Headley's bail plea is scheduled for December. In its amended complaint filed before the Chicago Court last month, the FBI said, Rana and Headley had discussed and named multiple targets of their planning in their conversation on 7th of September. The conversation indicates that the LeT was giving priority to its attack on the National Defence College in New Delhi over the other targets, including the facilities of the Danish newspaper, which had published a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad.

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