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| A student has been found guilty of three terrorism offences at the High Court in Glasgow. | A student has been found guilty of three terrorism offences at the High Court in Glasgow. |
| Mohammed Atif Siddique, 21, from Alva, in Clackmannanshire, will be sentenced next month. | Mohammed Atif Siddique, 21, from Alva, in Clackmannanshire, will be sentenced next month. |
| The jury took almost nine hours to decide on their verdict at the end of a four-week trial. | |
| Siddique, who sat motionless in court, had denied possessing terror-related items and collecting information of a terrorist nature. | |
| Prosecutor Brian McConnachie QC revealed that Siddique had no previous convictions. | |
| The judge, Lord Carloway, called for a risk assessment report on Siddique with a view to giving him an extended sentence when he next appears before him in Edinburgh on 23 October. | |
| You have been convicted of significant contraventions of the Terrorism Acts Judge Lord Carloway | |
| Siddique was found guilty of possessing suspicious terrorism-related items including CDs and videos of weapons use, guerrilla tactics and bomb-making. | |
| He was also guilty of collecting terrorist-related information, setting up websites showing how to make and use weapons and explosives, and circulating inflammatory terrorist publications. | |
| A further charge of breach of the peace related to claims that he showed students at Glasgow Metropolitan College images of suicide bombers and terrorist beheadings. | |
| Judge Lord Carloway told Siddique, whose parents run a general store in the small town of Alva: "You have been convicted of significant contraventions of the terrorism acts. | |
| "In particular having in your possession articles connected with the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism." | |
| During the three-and-a-half week trial, prosecutor Mr McConnachie, who is Scotland's senior advocate depute, told the court that Siddique had been the centre of top-level surveillance by police and security services. | |
| Bomb making | |
| A computer disc found hidden under a carpet in the accused's family home contained images including Islamic extremists looting the body of a dead US serviceman. | |
| Siddique's laptop had an al-Qaeda recruiting video urging young Muslim men to become suicide bombers. | |
| He had a photograph on his mobile phone of protesters carrying placards which said 'Behead those who insult Islam' and 'Massacre those who insult Islam'. | |
| He also set up a website that had links on how to be a home-grown terrorist, including bomb-making advice and how to strip weapons. | |
| The accused, who did not give evidence, claimed that the material he collected was for research. | |
| His QC Donald Findlay argued that such material could easily be obtained by anyone on the internet. |