‘I was only researching IS’

A Somali man who downloaded and shared terrorist propaganda of IS executions claimed he only did it for research, a court heard. Abdirahman Abdullahi Mohamed, 42, obtained materials from the Islamic State and al-Queda and shared IS recruitment videos. Kelly Brocklehurst, prosecuting, said: ‘The so-called Islamic State is of course now a familiar name and does feature heavily in the documents found in the defendant’s possession. ‘It is not the crown’s case that the defendant personally engaged in violence to…