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Four men admit discussing UK terror plot | Four men admit discussing UK terror plot |
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Four men have pleaded guilty to engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts. | Four men have pleaded guilty to engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts. |
Zahid Iqbal, Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed, Umar Arshad and Syed Farhan Hussain admitted facilitating, planning and encouraging travel overseas contrary to Section 5 of Terrorism Act 2006. | Zahid Iqbal, Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed, Umar Arshad and Syed Farhan Hussain admitted facilitating, planning and encouraging travel overseas contrary to Section 5 of Terrorism Act 2006. |
The men were arrested following a series of anti-terror raids in Luton, Beds, last year. | The men were arrested following a series of anti-terror raids in Luton, Beds, last year. |
All four, aged between 21 and 31, were due to stand trial next month. | All four, aged between 21 and 31, were due to stand trial next month. |
Woolwich Crown Court heard that Iqbal, of Bishopscote Road, Arshad, Hussain and Ahmed downloaded computer files containing practical instruction for an attack. | |
The men purchased survival equipment and collected funds for terrorist purposes. The offences took place between January 2011 and April last year. | |
Following their guilty plea, further charges of possessing documents including the al-Qaeda magazine Inspire will be ordered to lie on file. | |
The men were charged with possessing copies of a manual written by Anwar Al Awlaki, a radical American Muslim cleric of Yemeni descent who was killed last year in a US drone strike, called 44 Ways to Support Jihad. | |
Ahmed, of Maidenhall Road, and Arshad, of Crawley Road, were also said to have held a copy of 21 Techniques of Silent Killing, while the latter was claimed to have been in possession of The Al Qaeda Manual. | |
Hussain, of Cornel Close, was alleged to have possessed The Book of Jihad and a copy of The Explosives Course 2. | |
Mr Justice Wilkie adjourned the case for sentencing on 15 April. |
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