‘ Laughing Stock’ Jailed Over Terror Offences

" ...almost comical in it's amateurishness.."

Police insist they have the backing of the Asian community following the conviction of two Blackburn (UK) brothers on terrorism offenses.

On Friday Abbas and Ilyas Iqbal ( who had named themselves The Blackburn Resistance) were jailed for a total of four years and six months after being found guilty at Manchester Crown Court.

The duo, who wore army-style camouflage clothing, had been seen as a ‘laughing stock’ by the local community at Whalley Range.
But Chief Superintendent Bob Eastwood denied claims the authorities had overreacted to the threat they posed. Even the judge , during sentencing said that ” their Al-Qa’ida-style ambitions to become fully-fledged jihadists amounted to little more than a vanity project.”

The prosecutor said that the material gained from the pair was ‘…comical in its amateurishness..”

Abbas Iqbal 24, was sentenced to two years in prison for the dissemination of terrorist publications ( copying parts of the scripts from the film Black Hawk Down ) and preparing for acts of terrorism. His younger brother Ilyas, 23, was jailed for 18 months for possessing a document ( based on news reports from Fox News and Al Jazeera TV) likely to be useful to a terrorist.

Whoever that terrorist it might be useful to is, it certainly isn’t Ilyas Iqbal or his brother Abbas.

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