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Fifth man guilty in terror case | Fifth man guilty in terror case |
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A university student has been found guilty of possessing articles for terrorist purposes. | A university student has been found guilty of possessing articles for terrorist purposes. |
Awaab Iqbal, 20, from Bradford, was the fifth person to be convicted after a trial at the Old Bailey. | Awaab Iqbal, 20, from Bradford, was the fifth person to be convicted after a trial at the Old Bailey. |
The case concerned the exchange of internet material said to encourage Islamic terrorist martyrdom. | The case concerned the exchange of internet material said to encourage Islamic terrorist martyrdom. |
Iqbal was earlier found not guilty on a possession charge. Three other Bradford University students and a former schoolboy from Ilford await sentence. | |
The university students were arrested after Mohammed Irfan Raja - a schoolboy at the time - ran away from home in February 2006. | |
He left a note for his parents saying he was going to fight abroad and they would meet again in heaven, the jury was told. | |
Telephone call | |
Raja, now 18, was convicted of two charges of having articles for terrorism. | |
Aitzaz Zafar, 20, of Rochdale, Lancashire, was convicted of one charge; Usman Ahmed Malik, 21, of Bradford, West Yorkshire of two charges; and Akbar Butt, 20, of Southall, west London, found guilty of one charge. | |
Raja had been communicating and exchanging material with the students on the internet, before going to stay with them. | |
He returned home three days later after a telephone call in which his parents begged him to come back. | |
The men will be sentenced on Thursday. |
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