Man pleads guilty to spreading terrorist material
LONDON, Nov 21 (Reuters) A man pleaded guilty today to distributing terrorist propaganda and helping someone breach a control order.
Abdul Rahman, 25, also admitted at Manchester Crown Court to possessing an article for a purpose connected with the commission or instigation of an act of terrorism.
Detective Chief Superintendent Tony Porter, head of the Greater Manchester Police Counter Terrorism Unit, said: ''He was clearly intent on drawing others into his network.'' Rahman was arrested in January 2007, two-and-a-half years after arriving in the country from Pakistan on a student visa to do a biotechnology course at university which he quit within days.
He was arrested for aiding or abetting an individual to breach a control order by paying for a flight ticket out of Britain to Lahore.
During a search of Rahman's Manchester home detectives found a package to be sent to Pakistan and a letter from Afghanistan glorifying terrorist acts.
The package contained combat knives, a mobile phone linked to the individual who had fled the country, another mobile phone and chargers.
The ''call to jihad'' letter had been sent by a man who had shared a house with Rahman, and who asked him to disseminate it to ''brothers'' in the UK.
The individual is suspected of taking part in terrorist acts against coalition forces in Afghanistan since he fled the UK in 2006. He is now barred from returning to Britain.
Also found during the search were video clips of an expedition to the Lake District in snow where Rahman, the former house-mate and a third individual are seen undertaking military-style training and making references to martyrdom.
The third man is also subject to an exclusion order preventing him entering the UK.
Porter
added:
''At
the
very
least
with
this
successful
prosecution
and
other
activities,
we
have
disrupted
a
network
intent
on
providing
logistical
support
and
recruits
for
terrorist
training
overseas
and
action
against
our
forces
in
Afghanistan.''
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