Cufflink IT jihadist gets 8 years’ jail in Britain
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AN Islamic State jihadist who hid extremist material on a computer memory stick disguised as cufflinks and created an online “library for terrorists” was jailed for eight years in Britain yesterday.
Operating from his bedroom in Cardiff, 34-year-old IT expert Samata Ullah offered a range of guidance on how to stay one step ahead of the police and security services.
He was jailed at London’s Old Bailey court after admitting five terror offenses, including membership of the IS jihadist group, training and preparation of terrorist acts.
“It is the first time we have seen anything on this scale,” said Commander Dean Haydon, head of the British police’s counter-terrorism command unit. “He had set up a self-help library for terrorists around the world and they were using his library.
“There was guidance on encryption, ways to avoid detection from police and security services, expert tuition around missile systems and a vast amount of propaganda.
“He has created a one-stop shop for terrorists. In my view he was a very dangerous individual although he was operating from his bedroom.”
Haydon said the sort of information he had may have helped people involved in planning devastating, low-tech attacks on crowded places.
Ullah had a cache of extremist data on his USB stick cufflinks, including 15 copies of the IS propaganda magazine Dabiq.
British counter-terrorism police tracked him down after being passed intelligence by the FBI in the US. They had been handed the information from authorities in Kenya, who had arrested another man.
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