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| The Attorney General has lost an appeal to extend the jail term of convicted would-be terrorist Sohail Qureshi. | The Attorney General has lost an appeal to extend the jail term of convicted would-be terrorist Sohail Qureshi. |
| Qureshi, 30, from Forest Gate, east London, is expected to be freed in about a year after the Court of Appeal refused to increase his sentence. | |
| He was jailed for four and a half years in January after he admitted planning to carry out a terrorist mission. | |
| The Lord Chief Justice said any direct link between Qureshi and actual acts of terrorism was "relatively remote". | |
| Delivering the ruling, Lord Phillips said his existing jail term was "lenient, but not unduly lenient". | |
| Qureshi, a dentist, was arrested at Heathrow Airport in 2006, carrying £9,000 in cash, night vision goggles and military manuals stored on computer discs. | |
| He had been about to board a plane to Pakistan. | |
| Police later searched Qureshi's home and found he was in e-mail contact with Heathrow shop assistant Samina Malik, the self-styled "Lyrical Terrorist". | |
| Malik was given a suspended jail sentence in November 2007 after being convicted of storing a library of material for terrorism. | |
| Andrew Hall QC, representing Qureshi, described him as "something of a Walter Mitty character", who may have been "living in a fantasy world, exaggerating what he was doing and playing a role to impress others". |