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Three admit inciting terror acts | Three admit inciting terror acts |
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Three al-Qaeda-linked men have admitted inciting terrorist attacks against non-Muslims on websites and in e-mails. | Three al-Qaeda-linked men have admitted inciting terrorist attacks against non-Muslims on websites and in e-mails. |
Younes Tsouli, 23, of west London, and Waseem Mughal, 24, of Chatham, Kent, changed their pleas on Monday. | |
A third man, Tariq Al-Daour, 21, of west London, has now changed his plea at Woolwich Crown Court to guilty. | |
The three men are the first people to be convicted of inciting terrorist murder via the internet. They will be sentenced on Thursday. | |
Investigators found a computer a presentation called The Illustrated Booby Trapping Course on Tsouli's laptop computer. | |
A film about how to make a suicide vest was found on a CD at Mughal's home. | A film about how to make a suicide vest was found on a CD at Mughal's home. |
The court also heard Tsouli told Mughal in an online conversation that he had been asked by al-Qaeda to translate the organisation's official e-book into English. | |
Global | Global |
The book - Thurwat Al Sanam, or Tip Of The Camel's Hump - is said to promote jihad, or holy struggle. | The book - Thurwat Al Sanam, or Tip Of The Camel's Hump - is said to promote jihad, or holy struggle. |
The pair believed there was a "global conspiracy" to wipe out Islam, the court was told. | The pair believed there was a "global conspiracy" to wipe out Islam, the court was told. |
Tsouli, Mughal and Al-Daour admitted inciting another person to commit an act of terrorism wholly or partly outside the United Kingdom which would, if committed in England and Wales, constitute murder. | |
They all also admitted conspiring to defraud banks, credit card companies and charge card companies. | |
Tsouli, of Shepherd's Bush, was born in Morocco. Mughal is UK-born. Al-Daour was born in the United Arab Emirates. | |