Accused terrorist says he was just ‘researching’ ISIS

An Asda cashier accused of trying to join an ISIS-linked group in the Philippines told a court he was just researching terrorism. Muslim convert Ryan Counsell, 28, said he was simply interested in ISIS propaganda ‘because it shows their policy and explicit ideology’. Counsell said he downloaded Dabiq and Inspire – the ‘official propaganda magazines’ of ISIS and Al-Qaeda respectively – because they showed ‘their policy and explicit ideology.’ The married father-of-one added: ‘It isn’t something that’s unofficial, this is…