Failed asylum seeker Hussein Yusef, who came to the UK as a child migrant, was jailed for six and half years on Friday after becoming a propagandist for Islamic State.
The Afghani, who arrived in the UK aged 14 years old as an asylum seeker and was in the care of foster parents in Oxford, is a supporter of the Islamic State and was jailed for terrorism-related offences after posting the personal details of more than 50 U.S. military personnel on Facebook, reports The Times.
Prosecutor Barnaby Jameson told Kingston Crown Court that the 21-year-old “embraced with open arms Islamic State’s uniquely twisted and fanatical view of the world [and] bought wholesale into Islamic State’s particular obsession with intolerance, sadism and murder”.
In 2015, after his asylum application had been rejected and all avenues for appeal were closed, the fast-food shop worker used Facebook to share names and email addresses of 56 U.S. military personnel. The information included addresses of homes in the U.S. as well as military bases in Hawaii, North Carolina, and Virginia.
The Islamist gained the list from information hacked by a group calling itself the Cyber Caliphate Army.
Yusef added the hashtags “US Army pigs completely hacked” and wrote: “All praise to Allah alone.”
Google searches found by police on his computer also showed he typed, “Kill Kuffar in the same way they have killed u quran” and “retaliation against the kuffar quran” [sic].
He was found guilty of making a record of terrorist information, encouraging terrorism, and disseminating terrorist publications.
This is the second incident in the past week of asylum seekers from the Middle East being jailed on terror charges. Syrian asylum seeker Saer Shaker, who was granted “discretionary leave” to remain in the UK, posted Islamic State material on Facebook and was jailed for two years on Friday.
Also on Friday, 18-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker Ahmed Hassan was charged with attempted murder and using the chemical compound TATP to cause an explosion likely to endanger life in connection with the Parsons Green terror attack where a bucket bomb partially detonated on a London underground train injuring nearly 30 people. However, both charges are criminal in nature and are not terror-related.
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