Jail for student blew loan on trip to join IS

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A radicalised Finnish teenager who splashed out on a trip to join Islamic State with his student loan was jailed for three-and-a-half years today (Thurs). Cubeyda Hassan Jama, 19, downloaded gruesome IS propaganda and stockpiled equipment after he received the funds while studying at Middlesex University in January. The computer science student then bought a one-way ticket to Bucharest, in Romania, on 4 February with the aim of eventually sneaking over the Turkish-Syrian border. He was removed from a plane…

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