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Title: Iraqi-Kurdish migrant who supported ISIS sentenced to 15 years in prison for remote-controlled car b
Post by: TomSea on July 27, 2019, 04:03:10 pm
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Iraqi-Kurdish migrant who supported ISIS sentenced to 15 years in prison for remote-controlled car bomb plot in the UK - Voice of Europe
About Author Arthur Lyons

An ISIS-supporting, Iraqi-Kurdish migrant has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for planning to carry out a terror attack with a remotely-controlled vehicle filled with explosives.

Farad Salah, 24, from Sheffield, had been in the beginning stages of testing small improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in preparation to inflict “terrible suffering” when his house was raided by British counter-terrorism police in December of 2017.

Following the raid, security forces discovered extremist material which included films of murder and torture in the migrant’s house.

Read more at: https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/07/iraqi-kurdish-migrant-who-supported-isis-sentenced-to-15-years-in-prison-for-remote-controlled-car-bomb-plot-in-the-uk/ (https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/07/iraqi-kurdish-migrant-who-supported-isis-sentenced-to-15-years-in-prison-for-remote-controlled-car-bomb-plot-in-the-uk/)

I did find plenty of articles on a news search using "Sheffield bomb"... Sheffield, where this was planned to have happened. 

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/world/man-24-jailed-in-sheffield-over-remote-controlled-vehicle-bomb-plot-939051.html (https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/world/man-24-jailed-in-sheffield-over-remote-controlled-vehicle-bomb-plot-939051.html)

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/24/man-jailed-farhad-salah-driverless-car-bomb-plot-uk (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/24/man-jailed-farhad-salah-driverless-car-bomb-plot-uk)
Driverless car.