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Terror plans land man in jail
06/07/2007 16:26 - (SA)
Manchester, England - An immigrant to Britain who collected information about staging terrorist attacks was sentenced to nine years in prison on Friday.
Omar Altimimi, 37, was convicted earlier this week of six counts of possessing material of use to terrorists and two counts of money laundering.
Altimimi came to England from The Netherlands in 2002 and applied for asylum, but police have been unable to establish his true identity or nationality, prosecutors said.
The manuals in his possession included instructions on using gas canisters to make car bombs, prosecutors said.
There was no indication, however, that Altimimi had any connection to recent failed bombing attempts in London and Glasgow by terrorists using cars filled with petrol and gas canisters.
- AP
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