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Britain
UK pair linked to Brussels, Paris attacks jailed
2016-12-13
[IsraelTmes] A British court on Monday enjugged
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
two men for up to eight years for handing money to Brussels and Gay Paree terror attacks suspect Mohammed Abrini when he visited Britannia last year.

Mohammed Ali Ahmed and Zakaria Boufassil gave £3,000 ($3,770) in cash to Abrini in the central English city of Birmingham in July 2015, knowing it would be used for terrorism.

Ahmed, a 27-year-old from Birmingham, had pleaded guilty to the offence last month and received an eight-year jail term.

Boufassil, a 26-year-old Belgian citizen also from Birmingham, had admitted meeting Abrini in a Birmingham park and holding the money for Ahmed, but said he had "no idea" of its intended use.

However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
a jury dismissed this claim last week and he was sentenced to three years behind bars.

Judge Jeremy Baker said Ahmed was motivated by "extreme Islamist beliefs" but said Boufassil’s role was "more limited."

It emerged Monday, after the judge lifted reporting restrictions, that Boufassil claimed he was recruited by British intelligence agency MI5 after the meeting with Abrini. He claimed to have been given up to £3,000 in exchange for information, using it to go to Morocco to see his girlfriend. He was tossed in the clink
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
on his return in April 2016.

Boufassil’s lawyer tried to use the MI5 claim to argue that he did not hold any allegiance to a particular terrorist group or cause.
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