Guilty: Britain's youngest ever terrorist, 16, who had guide to death and explosives in his home

dailymail.co.uk ^ | August 18, 2008 | Chris Brooke and Colin Fernandez

[Free ThinkerNY]

A schoolboy who joined a cell of Islamic fanatics targeting the Royal Family has become Britain's youngest convicted terrorist.

Hammaad Munshi, now 18, became obsessed with terrorism while aged 15 and studying for his GCSEs.

Instead of revising he spent hours secretly surfing jihadist websites and distributing material as part of a 'conspiracy to wipe-out' non-Muslims.

A computer expert, the teenager set up a website giving advice on how to make bombs, detonators, Napalm and using machine guns.

He was arrested at the age of 16 as he walked home from school in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, following a GCSE exam.

Britain's youngest terrorist: Hammaad Munshi

Police who had linked him to a terror cell ringleader found a handwritten note under his bed indicating he wanted to die as a martyr.

A guide to death and explosives was found in his home and inside his wallet were the hand-written dimensions of a sub-machine gun taken from a book on homemade firearms.

Munshi was found guilty at London's Blackfriars Crown Court on Monday of making a record of information likely to be useful in terrorism.

Judge Timothy Pontius adjourned sentence until next month, but he was remanded in custody and warned a jail term was 'inevitable.'

His mentor Aabid Hussain Khan, 23, a leading 'cyber terrorist' who radicalised impressionable Muslims and encouraged them to attend military terror camps in Pakistan, was found guilty of three offences of possessing articles for a purpose connected with terrorism.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

bkmark to check and see how much time he gets....

[skinkinthegrass]

He'll soon be a proper "wife", to some muslim convict.

[Das Outsider]

"But there's no England anymore..."

Living on a Thin Line, The Kinks

[Mark]

Boys will be boys.

[bajabaja]

They blow up so fast these days.

(Stolen from another Freeper. I think he meant to say “grow” .)

[VeniVidiVici]

Export him to Darfur.

[madprof98]

Judge Timothy Pontius adjourned sentence until next month, but he was remanded in custody and warned a jail term was 'inevitable.'

He might get as much as a week--with time off for good behavior.

[Dr. Sivana]

Gee, isn’t that the guy Richard Starkey (Ringo Starr) replaced on the Beatles?

[Dr. Sivana]

Must be the British look.

[Paved Paradise]

I wonder what causes so many of these people to have such dark circles under their eyes? It seems rather pervasive. It’s rather creepy.

[Cindy]

SNIPPET:

http://www.sofir.org/sarchives/006295.php

SNIPPET: “NOTHING happens exclusively on the Internet, including radicalisation.”

SNIPPET: “The Munshi case represents how real and virtual spaces, relationships, associations, and opportunities combined to deepen Munshi’s involvement with and commitment to the jihad.”

[Cindy]

ON THE INTERNET:

SOFIR.org: "ICSR REPORT EXCERPT: HAMAAD MUNSHI" (April 5, 2009)

JIHAD WATCH.org (TELEGRAPH.co.uk): "UK JUDGE TO 'BRITAIN'S YOUNGEST TERRORIST': 'I have no doubt that you, amongst others of similar immaturity and vulnerability, fell under the spell of fanatical extremists'" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Munshi, who is the grandson of a senior Islamic sharia judge, was groomed by terrorist Aabid Hussain Khan, 23, who was jailed last month alongside postman Sultan Muhammed, 23, both from Bradford.") (September 19, 2008)

JIHAD WATCH.org (REUTERS): "UK: MUSLIM YOUTH 'INVOLVED IN A GLOBAL CONSPIRACY TO WIPE OUT NON-MUSLIMS' SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS IN PRISON" (September 19, 2008)

JIHAD WATCH.org (YORKSHIRE POST): "BRITAIN: MODEL PUPIL LEADS DOUBLE-LIFE" (August 19, 2008)

JIHAD WATCH.org (TELEGRAPH.co.uk): "U.K.: JIHADIST CELL MAY HAVE BEEN PLOTTING TO ATTACK QUEEN, OTHER ROYALS" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Khan groomed Hammaad Munshi, then 15, the grandson of the head of a sharia court in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.") (August 18, 2008)