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Wed 08 Aug 2008British Muslim gets 12 years for keeping library of extremist material
BRITAIN:A FORMER burger bar worker, who radicalised young Muslims and spent years creating the biggest computer library of extremist material seized by British police has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Aabid Khan (23) from Bradford radicalised schoolboy Muhammad Munshi, who on Monday became Britain's youngest convicted terrorist, after recruiting him when he was 15. He and Munshi swapped documents about "black powder explosives" and during one online chat discussed ways to smuggle a sword through airport security.
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