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| Briton guilty of directing terror | Briton guilty of directing terror |
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| A British man has become the first person convicted in the UK of directing terrorism. | |
| Raingzieb Ahmed, 33, was also found guilty of being a member of terror group al-Qaeda, following a trial at Manchester Crown Court. | Raingzieb Ahmed, 33, was also found guilty of being a member of terror group al-Qaeda, following a trial at Manchester Crown Court. |
| Another man, Habib Ahmed, 29, was convicted of professing to be member. | |
| He was caught with two diaries containing details of top al-Qaeda operatives, described in court as a terrorist's contact book. | He was caught with two diaries containing details of top al-Qaeda operatives, described in court as a terrorist's contact book. |
| The diaries had been given to him by his co-defendant Raingzieb Ahmed, who is no relation. | |
| The prosecution said he was part of a three-man active service cell on an unknown foreign mission. | |
| Among the names and phone numbers in the diaries were the organisation's suspected former number three, Hamza Rabia, the court was told. |