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seek 30-yr sentence for LeT operative Rana  US prosecutors seek
30-yr sentence for LeT operative Rana  Last updated on: January
15, 2013 13:38 IST  The United States prosecutors on Tuesday
sought 30 years' imprisonment for Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur
Rana, an accomplice of convicted terrorist David Headley, for
providing material support to Laskar-e-Tayiba and conspiring for
a terror attack on a Danish newspaper.  A federal grand jury in
June 2011 had found 52-year-old Rana guilty of providing
material support to LeT and planning an aborted plot to bomb the
Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.  Rana, who was originally
arrested in 2009 for his involvement in the 26/11 Mumbai
attacks, was acquitted of the charge. However, Indian
investigators have charged him of being involved in the Mumbai
attack that killed 166 people and is seeking to question him for
the second time.  Headley, who conducted