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Haroon Aswat given 20 years in prison for terror crimes
Source: BBC
Haroon Aswat given 20 years in prison for terror crimes
17 October 2015 US & Canada
A British man who admitted plotting to set up an extremist training camp in the US has been jailed for 20 years.
Haroon Aswat, 41, from Batley, West Yorkshire, pleaded guilty to terrorism charges in New York in March.
He admitted conspiring with radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri to set up a camp 15 years ago in Oregon.
District judge Katherine Forrest said Aswat, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, would be returned to the UK on completion of his sentence.
Aswat had also pleaded guilty to one count of "providing material support to al-Qaeda".
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17 October 2015 US & Canada
A British man who admitted plotting to set up an extremist training camp in the US has been jailed for 20 years.
Haroon Aswat, 41, from Batley, West Yorkshire, pleaded guilty to terrorism charges in New York in March.
He admitted conspiring with radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri to set up a camp 15 years ago in Oregon.
District judge Katherine Forrest said Aswat, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, would be returned to the UK on completion of his sentence.
Aswat had also pleaded guilty to one count of "providing material support to al-Qaeda".
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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34556873
