This Article is From Nov 20, 2009

Rana's brother is a journalist in Canada

Mumbai: More details are emerging on Tahawwur Hussain Rana's Canadian connections. According to latest reports, Rana's brother Abbas is a journalist with Ottawa's Hill Times newspaper where he writes the popular 'Hill Climbers' column on the latest parliamentary staff changes. Rana was arrested by the FBI last month after being suspected of plotting terrorist attacks in India and Denmark.

The publisher of the Hill Times newspaper, Jim Creskey, has reportedly said that Abbas and his family are devastated by the news.

Rana's Canadian connections have been traced to the Kanata suburb of the Canadian capital Ottawa where he spends his Islamic holidays with his large family, a daily reported on Wednesday.

Forty-eight-year-old Rana runs an immigration consultancy service in Chicago with offices in New York and Toronto. He was arrested on October 3, for plotting to attack the Danish newspaper that published the controversial cartoons of Prophet Mohammed in 2005.

Rana, who immigrated to Canada in 1997 and acquired Canadian citizenship in 2001, was arrested along with David Headley for the plot.

The two Pakistani-origin men had also travelled to many cities in India just before the Mumbai terror attacks.

Investigators in India and the US are now looking into possible links between them and the Pakistani terrorists who were involved in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.

Reports have also said that Rana might have used his immigration consultancy business to help terrorists enter Canada and the US.

A bail hearing for Rana and Headley in Chicago Thursday was postponed till December 2.

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