Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

The defense team in the Tahawwur Rana trail rested yesterday after two witnesses were called. Closing arguments are expected to begin today. Attorneys explained the decision not to have Rana testify on his own behalf basically by portraying him as so clueless of the activities of friend David Coleman Headley in a variety of nefarious activities -- including helping to plan an attack that didn't come off on the Jyllands-Posten newspaper office for the Danish cartoons -- that to have him on the stand saying so would have been redundant. It is widely believe that the defense chose to have Rana not testify from a position of strength, that the prosecutor's case against Rana using Headley and subsequent buttressing by various FBI officials ended up not being as strong as folks thought.

Rana did make an appearance in court Monday, as parts of his interrogation video were played by the defense. The two witnesses the defense called were immigration lawyer David Morris, who worked with Rana on business venture similar to those Rana says he believed Headley was performing on his behalf, and computer expert Yaniv Moshe Schiff. Interestingly, Schiff says none of Rana's computer were used to access video of the Mumbai attacks, but one was used to garner information about Jyllands-Posten. It would be ironic if the over-sized nature of the Mumbai Massacre were to obscure other nefariouis activities, but it's too late for Rana to be re-tried now.
 
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