Tahawwur Rana denied all the charges during the trial A US jury has convicted a Chicago businessman of supporting an Islamic militant group blamed for the Mumbai attack in 2008.
But Tahawwur Rana, 50, was cleared of the more serious charge of helping plot the attack in the Indian city that killed more that 160 people.
The Chicago jurors also convicted the Pakistani-born Canadian of helping an aborted attack on a Danish newspaper.
Rana is expected to be sentenced later and faces up to 30 years in prison.
The jurors at the federal court in Chicago reached their verdict after two days of deliberations.
They found Rana guilty of providing material support to the banned Paksitani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which is blamed for the Mumbai attack in November 2008.
But he was cleared of involvement in the attack, in which more than 160 people died after group of 10 men stormed a train station, hotels and cafes and a Jewish centre, shooting and throwing bombs.
On Thursday, Rana was also found guilty of providing material support to a plot to bomb a Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, which had published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The plan was never carried out.
At the centre of the trial was testimony by the government's star witness David Headley, once Rana's close friend.
Headley had previously pleaded guilty to laying the groundwork for the Mumbai attacks and helping plot the attack against the Danish paper.
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