US: Prosecutors oppose Rana's bail

US prosecutors have filed a memorandum, opposing the bail petition of terror suspect Tahawwur Hussain Rana, charged with plotting terror attacks in India and Denmark.

In the new filing, prosecutors said recordings in their investigation of Rana and David Headley show that Rana knew about the Mumbai terror attacks well in advance. 

Rana's "detention hearing would resume on December 15 before Magistrate Judge Nan Nolan in US District Court in Chicago," a US Department of Justice statement said.

Pakistani-origin Canadian citizen Rana had appeared in court on December 2 for his detention hearing but a decision to release him on bond was postponed till December 15 by Nolan, who said she needed more time to review the evidences, including his statement to the FBI after his arrest in October on terror charges.

US prosecutors filed a third 10-page memorandum "in support of motion to detain Rana pending trial".

Opposing Rana's release on bail, the prosecutors argued that according to a conversation between Rana and suspected LeT operative US citizen David Coleman Headley in a "long car ride", it has come to light that Rana "was told in advance that the attacks in Mumbai were to happen" and in fact "offered compliments and congratulations to those who carried them out afterwards".

The memorandum was submitted by United States Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald.