Jail for extremist friend of Manchester synagogue terrorist

A dangerous extremist who planned a terror attack on a military base with Manchester synagogue terrorist Jihad Al-Shamie, two months before he murdered two Jewish men, was jailed for at least 17 years. Mohammad Asim Bashir, 31, drove his close friend Al-Shamie, 35 to the UK Defence Academy in Shrivenham, near Swindon ‘to carry out hostile reconnaissance’ last August. Al-Shamie launched his murderous car ramming knife attack at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue before he was shot dead by…