Mark Gobell
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 Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 10:30 am Post subject: Abdul Rahman first to tick the Section 2 TACT2006 box |
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| Quote: | Man faces trial on terror charges
A man is to go on trial accused of helping to prepare terrorist attacks while living in Manchester.
Pakistan-born Abdul Rahman, 25, also faces charges of possessing an article connected with the preparation or instigation of terrorist acts and the dissemination of information to do with terrorism.
All the charges relate to Rahman's activity between April last year and January this year.
Rahman, who denies the charges, was living in Cheetham Hill, at the time.
The trial, at Manchester Crown Court, is expected to last three weeks. |
http://www.wigantoday.net/latest-north-west-news/Man-faces-trial-on-te rror.3503712.jp
So, on the first day of his trial he is reported to be denying the charges.
But by the second day of his trial:
| Quote: | Man pleads guilty in terror case
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Control order
Rahman was also accused of the more serious charge of assisting another person to commit or prepare a terrorist act, which carries a possible life sentence.
He formally entered a not guilty plea to the offence and instead, pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of aiding and abetting a man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, to break a control order.
He joined up with a group of young men, some of them fellow Pakistan nationals, some of them radical British Muslims
Parmjit Cheema, prosecuting
Rahman helped the 22-year-old British man flee to Pakistan by paying his airfare.
Rahman admitted the offences as part of a plea bargain agreed after the judge, his Honour Clement Goldstone QC, indicated that the defendant would only be jailed for a maximum of six years if he was to plead guilty and avoid a trial. |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7105587.stm
| Quote: | | A Pakistani-born man has been jailed for six years after pleading guilty to terrorism charges. Abdul Rahman, 25, of Cheetham Hill, Manchester, is the first person in Britain to be convicted of a charge of disseminating terrorist information. |
Section 2 - Dissemination - Terrorism Act 2006, came into force on 13.4.2006
Abdul Rahman was arrested on 23.1.2007
This was the 9th month and 11th day of the TACT2006 coming into force.
Trial begins on 20.11.7 - 1 week and 19 months since TACT2006 came into force.
That's a wrap then, another section tested.
Some background on the "How can I train for Jihad", the 6 page booklet which forms part of a growing library of documents among the lucky finds in former "safe houses" in Afghanistan.
http://www.vpc.org/studies/jihad.htm
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