(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A former Chicago businessman now faces extradition to India, where he could be sentenced to death for a 2008 massacre known as India's 9/11.
Tahawwur Rana, 62, who had been a travel agent in West Rogers Park, has been cleared for extradition to India.
Indian authorities want to put Rana on trial for conspiring to plot and carry out terror attacks in Mumbai that centered around the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. The attacks killed 166 people.
Twelve years ago, Rana was convicted in Chicago of supporting the Pakistani terrorist group that planned the attacks, but he was not convicted of directly supporting the attack.
Now, a judge has approved extradition to India for Rana.
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