AFP, London :
A Bangladeshi-origin British man who plotted an Islamic State-inspired attack on US military personnel based in England was jailed for life and told he would spend at least 12 years behind bars.
Junead Khan, 25, was a committed supporter of the IS group and he also idolised Mohammed Emwazi, the late British militant nicknamed “Jihadi John”, who appeared in a string of IS execution videos.
Khan had used his job as a delivery driver for a pharmaceutical firm as cover to scout US Air Force bases in eastern England between May and July 2015, it emerged during his trial.
“Junead Khan was not far from the commission of the murder to be committed by horrifying method in the street in order to create terror and terrorist propaganda in this country,” judge Andrew Edis said as he sentenced him.
A Bangladeshi-origin British man who plotted an Islamic State-inspired attack on US military personnel based in England was jailed for life and told he would spend at least 12 years behind bars.
Junead Khan, 25, was a committed supporter of the IS group and he also idolised Mohammed Emwazi, the late British militant nicknamed “Jihadi John”, who appeared in a string of IS execution videos.
Khan had used his job as a delivery driver for a pharmaceutical firm as cover to scout US Air Force bases in eastern England between May and July 2015, it emerged during his trial.
“Junead Khan was not far from the commission of the murder to be committed by horrifying method in the street in order to create terror and terrorist propaganda in this country,” judge Andrew Edis said as he sentenced him.
