Investigators Say Man Snared in Portable Missile Sting Praised Bin Laden.
By Stephen J. Hedges, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 14--WASHINGTON--A London man arrested on charges that he tried to sell anti-aircraft missiles to an informant posing as a terrorist praised Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden during negotiations and endorsed a plan to use the missiles to shoot down airliners in the U.S., according to documents released by federal officials Wednesday.
Hemant Lakhani, 68, a British citizen, worked diligently over 20 months to make the sale of up to 50 Russian Igla-S surface to air missiles, accord
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