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'Wannabe bomber' gets 8 years
23/10/2007 17:11 - (SA)
Glasgow - A Scottish college student who declared that he intended to become a suicide bomber after scouring extremist Islamic sites on the internet was sentenced on Tuesday to eight years in prison.
Mohammed Atif Siddique, 21, was convicted in September of four terrorism offences and also of causing a disturbance by telling fellow students he planned to become a suicide bomber.
Prosecutors said during the four-week trial that Siddique was watched by security agents for several months before he was arrested in April 2006 as he tried to board a flight from Glasgow to Lahore, Pakistan.
Siddique, from the town of Clackmannanshire in central Scotland, had stored and posted guides to bomb-making, guns and explosives on a network of websites, prosecutors said.
"It is clear from the evidence that you did not have this material because of some innocent curiosity," said the judge, Lord Colin Carloway.
Siddique faced a maximum term of 15 years for his offences.
- AP
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