DAR AL HARB - U.K.: JIHAD FILES ON A PC OF AN ASYLUM SEEKER

Failed asylum-seeker ‘had jihad files on PC’
by Russell Jenkins

A failed asylum-seeker stored files on his home computer on how to run a jihadist terrorist cell, Manchester Crown Court was told yesterday.

Omar Altimimi, 37, a married father of three living in suburban Bolton, possessed material on a variety of terrorist activities including a number of “chilling” videos glorifying terrorism and the killing of hostages or those seen as enemies of insurgent factions in Iraq.

The material included a number of references to Al Ghurabaa, a UK-based group that was banned last July under new legislation outlawing organisations that support terrorism.
Mr Altimimi, unemployed, had at least three identities, two homes and was an associate of terrorists abroad when he was arrested last year for his role in an alleged £27,400 money-laundering operation, the court was told.

He had applied for jobs as a primary school teaching assistant and as a cleaning supervisor for Greater Manchester Police but, the prosecution said, this was merely an attempt to “blend into the community”. Tim Barnes, QC, for the prosecution, told the jury: “The contents of his computer give the lie to the suggestion of a law-abiding citizen anxious to take up a responsible teaching position within the community.”

Mr Altimimi, thickset with black hair and spectacles, listened to the evidence with the aid of an interpreter. He denies six charges of possessing material for a purpose connected with the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terror. He also denies acquisition of criminal property and the attempted possession of criminal property under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
The trial, which is expected to last at least five weeks, is the first terror trial to be held outside London since the 9/11 attacks.

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