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These names don't sound Somali to me especially the names of the so called 'Somali three'. A simple Google search brings up Asian faces. Anyway story is below.

 

 

A former teaching assistant, based in London, has been jailed for five years and three months for donating £9,000 to fund terrorism in Somalia.

 

Shabaaz Hussain, 28, gave the money to three of his friends who had left the UK to allegedly become involved in terrorism in the African country.

 

Passing sentence, Mr Justice Calvert-Smith told him he had an "industrious and productive" life before committing the offences.

 

The judge said: "These were, as you realised, substantial sums for people living, most likely, in basic conditions in countries like Somalia and Kenya.

 

"You certainly realised, in my judgment, that some of it would be used either directly or indirectly to help to resource acts of terrorism. You certainly realised as your counsel has conceded that it was going at least in general support of people with these intentions."

 

Hussain had previously worked as a teaching assistant, but did not have a job at the time of the offences. In total he donated 14,380 US dollars (£9,114) which went to Muhammed Jahangir, Tufual Ahmed, and Mohammed Shahim, known as "The Somali Three".

 

The court heard that the first amounts were paid to accounts in Nairobi, Kenya, using false names, and later Mogadishu.

 

Evidence was gathered against Hussain when police secretly recorded conversations he had in his car.

 

A huge amount of extremist material was also found in the flat he shared with his parents and brother.

 

In mitigation, Imran Khan, for Hussain, said that he was looking after the extremist material for others and there was no evidence that he had actually viewed any of it.

 

Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5gjuyMTL4Kagk_ox9nx25CmNOBXcQ?docId=B24321111331293781A00

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