Things just got worse for Chicago’s terror suspects Tahawwur Rana and David Headley.
Legal wunderkind Patrick Fitzgerald will personally prosecute the two accused of plotting to blow up a Danish newspaper and helping organize the Mumbai bombings of 2008, the Sun-Times reports.
Fitzgerald appeared at a hearing for Rana on Wednesday – the first time he’s appeared in the case – and said some of the evidence in the case will be handled under strict rules because it is considered classified.
The US Attorney is considered a terrorism specialist. Fitzgerald prosecuted the 1993 World Trade Center bombing case.
Since coming to Chicago in 2001, he’s only prosecuted one case -- Enaam Arnaut a Muslim charity leader who pleaded guilty in 2003 to a racketeering charge and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Proscutors said he had ties to al-Qaida.
