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18/03/2011
30 Year Sentence For BA Terror Plotter
A former British Airways worker has been jailed for 30 years over terrorist plotting.
Rajib Karim, 31, from Newcastle, was employed as a software engineer and used his position to access information for a Yemen based al-Qaeda preacher to target BA's flights in the US.
Mr Justice Calvert-Smith said he was a committed jihadist who planned offences "about as grave as could be imagined".
At Woolwich Crown Court, he added that Karim had worked "incessantly" for terrorist purposes.
The Judge added that Karim was a "willing follower" who could have brought serious harm and death to innocent people.
The Bangladeshi man, who had a British wife and children, was told he faced deportation.
(BMcN)
Rajib Karim, 31, from Newcastle, was employed as a software engineer and used his position to access information for a Yemen based al-Qaeda preacher to target BA's flights in the US.
Mr Justice Calvert-Smith said he was a committed jihadist who planned offences "about as grave as could be imagined".
At Woolwich Crown Court, he added that Karim had worked "incessantly" for terrorist purposes.
The Judge added that Karim was a "willing follower" who could have brought serious harm and death to innocent people.
The Bangladeshi man, who had a British wife and children, was told he faced deportation.
(BMcN)
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