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Britain jails Iraqi-Kurd for plotting remote-controlled attack

Farhad Salah, an Iraqi-Kurdish man convicted of planning a terrorist attack in Britain using a remote-controlled vehicle with a bomb in it, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

The Press Association, which reported this on Wednesday, said that the 24-year-old was found guilty earlier this month of preparing to commit acts of terrorism.

Salah had been described to jurors at the Sheffield Crown Court as a supporter of Islamic State, who was arrested during the early stages of testing small improvised explosive devices.

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Prosecutor Anne Whyte said that a week before being detained, Salah had messaged a Facebook contact to say: “My only attempt is to find a way to carry out martyrdom operation with cars without driver.”

According to PA, Whyte said Salah was becoming “increasingly desperate” to do something in the name of Islamic State at the time of his plotting.

He had been unable to travel to the Middle East due to his unsettled immigration status; his application for asylum in Britain was undecided at the time of his arrest in December 2017. (NAN)

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