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Jury May Have Doubted Key Mumbai Attacks Witness
CHICAGO (AP) -- A jury's split verdict for a Chicago businessman accused in the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks suggests that jurors might not have taken the government's star witness's testimony at his word.

During his testimony, David Coleman Headley detailed the inner workings of a Pakistani militant group and its suspected ties to the country's main intelligence agency.

But jurors cleared Tahawwur Rana of the three-day siege that has often been called India's 9/11. Instead, he was convicted of two lesser charges on Thursday.

The verdict underlines the difficulties federal prosecutors face winning complex terrorism cases that involve questionable cooperating witnesses and a complicated web of terror networks.

Experts say jurors need to seek corroborating evidence and that may not have been independently available when it came to Mumbai accusations.

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