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Three men who used the internet to urge Muslims to carry out holy war against non-believers have been jailed. | |
Younes Tsouli, 23, of west London, was jailed for 10 years. | |
Waseem Mughal, 24, of Chatham, Kent, and Tariq Al-Daour, 21, of west London, also pleaded guilty to inciting another person to commit an act of terrorism. | |
Mughal was jailed for seven-and-a-half years while Al-Daour was imprisoned for six-and-a-half years. All were sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court. | |
The court was told Al-Daour, Tsouli and Mughal had close links with al-Qaeda in Iraq and believed there was a "global conspiracy" to wipe out Islam. | |
Tsouli admitted conducting an online campaign urging Muslims to wage a holy war against "kuffars" or non-believers. | |
Fraud conspiracy | |
For at least a year they used e-mail and radical websites to try to encourage people to follow the ideology of Osama Bin Laden. | |
Following a two-month trial, all three admitted inciting another person to commit an act of terrorism wholly or partly outside the UK which would, if committed in England and Wales, constitute murder. | |
They also admitted conspiring together and with others to defraud banks, credit card companies and charge card companies. | |
Computers, notebooks and digital storage media were seized when police raided the homes of the three men. | |
Al-Daour, who was born in the UAE and lived in Bayswater, had CDs containing instructions for making explosives and poisons. | |
Evidence gathered | |
Moroccan-born Tsouli, of Shepherd's Bush, used the online tag irhabi007, which came from the Arabic word for terrorist and the code number of James Bond. | |
The court had also heard how Tsouli had told British-born Mughal, in an online conversation, that he had been asked by al-Qaeda to translate the organisation's official e-book into English. | |
The book - Thurwat Al Sanam, or Tip Of The Camel's Hump - is said to promote jihad, or holy struggle. | |
Investigators found a computer presentation called The Illustrated Booby Trapping Course on Tsouli's laptop computer. | |
And a film about how to make a suicide vest was found on a CD at Mughal's home. |
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