Three jailed for discussing possible terror attack
Source: The Guardian
Three men, including a convert to Islam and a former police employee, have been jailed for secret conversations about preparing a possible terrorist strike against the United Kingdom.
Richard Dart, from Dorset, converted to Islam around 2010 after attending lectures by the extremist Anjem Choudary. Dart, Imran Mahmood, and Jahangir Alom, who was also schooled in an extremist interpretation of Islam by Choudary, were jailed for a total of more than 20 years for terrorist involvement.
Choudary told the Guardian he had been a key influence in Dart's understanding of Islam. Dart, the son of teachers from Weymouth, changed his name to Salahuddin al-Britani.
"Everything he knew, he studied with me," Choudary said. "He attended one of my lectures in west London to find out about Islam, and then he basically attended everything we had."
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