TSOULI: CYBER TERRORIST HAD BOMB MAKER’S MANUAL
A suspected Muslim ‘cyber-terrorist’ had a terrorist manual on how to make car bombs and anti-tank mines, a court heard.
Younis Tsouli, allegedly known online as Irhabi007 – meaning Terrorist 007, kept the handbook among dozens of other files on his home computer.
Jurors at Woolwich Crown Court were shown extracts of the file which included a step-by-step video on making a remote control road bomb.
Detailed instructions are given on how to place an electrical detonator connected to a washing machine timer inside a mortar round.
Masked figures are then shown burying the device in a road and retreating to a safe distance to await a passing vehicle.
Chanting is heard as an armoured vehicle is engulfed by the explosion.
The handbook continues: ‘When you see the enemy approaching, press the remote and then enjoy the sound of the explosion.
‘This is the method used in Iraq and Chechnya to blow up heavy vehicles which become wrecks and strike terror into those in accompanying vehicles.’
The handbook then goes on to talk about Car bombs.
It reads: ‘Car bombs are the most powerful weapon the Mujahideen have used militarily up until now in terms of tactics and great effect on the enemy.’
Woolwich Crown Court has heard how Tsouli, 23, was well connected to the terrorist group Al Qaeda in Iraq led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
He allegedly helped distribute extremist Islamic propaganda from a series of websites while sat at his computer in Shepherds Bush, west London.
It is also claimed he became involved in a murder plot by two Muslim extremists linked to a new group called ‘Al Qaeda in Northern Europe.’
Anti-terrorist police were alerted when the two men were arrested in Bosnia with a video showing them preparing a suicide bomb vest.
Phone records and computer files led them to the family home of Tsouli in Shepherds Bush two days later on 21 October 2005.
Tsouli’s co-defendants Waseem Mughal, 24, and Tariq Al-Daour, 21, were arrested on the same day and are also said to have been involved in the distribution of material.
Mughal, of [33] Railway Street, Chatham, Kent, and Tsouli, of [7] Richmond Way, Shepherd’s Bush, west London, both deny conspiracy to murder, incitement to commit an act of terrorism and two counts of possessing a document or record likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.
Al-Daour, of [136] Queens Court, Queensway, Bayswater, Paddington, west London, denies six counts of possessing a document or record likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism, two counts of incitement to commit an act of terrorism and conspiracy to defraud.
The trial continues.
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