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A 20-year-old student will appear in court on Tuesday accused of a Syria-related terror offence. | A 20-year-old student will appear in court on Tuesday accused of a Syria-related terror offence. |
Mouloud Tahari from Birmingham is the third person to be charged in connection with the investigation after former Guantánamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg and Mouloud’s mother Gerrie Tahari appeared in court following their arrests last week. | |
West Midlands police said he would appear at Westminster magistrates’ court charged with facilitating terrorism overseas. | |
Tahari, from Ashway in Sparkhill, is accused of being concerned in a terrorist funding arrangement between 31 December 2011 and 6 November 2013. All three suspects were arrested by detectives from the West Midlands counter-terrorism unit on 25 February. | |
Begg was held in the US-run military prison at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba for nearly three years. He moved to Afghanistan with his family in 2001 before taking them to Pakistan in 2002 when the war began. | |
He was detained in Islamabad, Pakistan, in January 2002 after being classified as an “enemy combatant” and taken to the Bagram internment centre for about a year before being transferred to Guantánamo. Begg was released with three others in January 2005 and allowed to return to the UK. | |
Begg, 45, of Boden Road, Hall Green, Birmingham, is charged with providing instruction or training for terrorism in Syria and facilitating terrorism overseas, while Gerrie Tahari, 44, is accused of facilitating terrorism overseas. | |
Both denied the charges when they appeared at Westminster magistrates’ court on Saturday. They were remanded in custody and will next appear at the Old Bailey on 14 March. | |
A 36-year-old man who was also held had been released without charge, police said. | A 36-year-old man who was also held had been released without charge, police said. |
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