Three men, who used the Internet to urge Muslims to fight non-believers, were jailed for between six-and-a-half and 10 years on Thursday. Tariq Al Daour, Younes Tsouli and Waseem Mughal had close links with Al Qaeda in Iraq and thought there was a “global conspiracy” to wipe out Islam, Woolwich Crown Court, in southeast London, was told. Moroccan-born Tsouli, 23, was jailed for 10 years; UAE-born Al Daour, 21, received a six-and-a-half year sentence; and 24-year-old Mughal, who was born in Britain, was given seven-and-a-half years.Al Daour on Wednesday admitted a charge of “inciting another person to commit an act of terrorism wholly or partly outside the United Kingdom which would, if committed in England and Wales, constitute murder.” Tsouli and Mughal admitted the same charge on Monday. The guilty pleas came two months into their trial. Al Daour and Tsouli, who lived in west London, and Mughal, from Kent in southeast England, also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud banks, credit card and charge card companies.
The trial was told the computer experts spent at least 12 months trying to encourage people to follow Al QaedaÂ’s head Osama Bin Laden, using email and radical websites. Films of western hostages and beheadings were found among their possessions.