[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Surrey teenager faces jail for planning an Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
attack after becoming obsessed with watching violent online gang ’drill’ videos.
Haider Ahmed, then a 17-year-old sixth form student, was still living with his parents in the leafy county when he was tossed in the slammer
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
for plotting an attack similar to those at London Bridge and Westminster.
He had become radicalised by violent gang ’drill’ rap videos he watched on YouTube at the age of 14, before graduating to Islamic State violence.
His online obsession led to him taking over an encrypted channel on Telegram dedicated to the terrorist group at the age of 16 and failing most of his GCSEs.
The channel put him in touch with an extensive terrorist recruitment network that had members in Libya, Kenya, India and the Philippines.
Ahmed was found guilty of preparing acts of terrorism by a majority of ten to two and will face sentence next month at Kingston Crown Court.
He asked a friend to sell him a knife because he was under 18 and could not buy it himself and was warned: ’Dnt gt caught with it. They’ll says ISIS, lol.’
Ahmed was also in touch with notorious British Islamic State recruiter Abu Sa'eed al-Britani.
The teenager, who was studying business, IT, maths and law, at ’outstanding’ Reigate College in Surrey, wrote: ’I’m doing well in college, however I’ve found out my purpose recently.’