Glasgow student planned to join Canada Qaeda bombing plot

A British born Muslim student found guilty of Islamist terrorism offences is now also being accused of planning to take part in alleged al-Qaeda attacks in Canada.

London, Sept.18 : A British born Muslim student found guilty of Islamist terrorism offences is now also being accused of planning to take part in alleged al-Qa'eda attacks in Canada.

The alleged Canadian plot included detonating truck bombs, blowing up shopping malls and storming the Canadian Broadcast Centre and the parliament building.

The alleged plotters are also accused of planning to behead Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other leaders.

Apart from Mohammed Atif Siddique, eleven men and five teenage boys are in custody in connection with the plot.

Siddique, 21, who has been described as Scotland's first home-grown terrorist, provided instruction on weapons and booby-trap bomb making over the internet, and showed videos of beheadings and suicide bombers to fellow students at the Glasgow Metropolitan College.

He will be sentenced on October 23.

He is supposed to have told his friends that Osama Bin Laden was his god, and one classmate overheard him saying that he wanted to "bomb Glasgow".

He was convicted of possessing and distributing terrorist material through websites and could face up to 15 years in jail when he is sentenced next month.

Following the verdict it can be revealed that Siddique was detained at Glasgow airport last April amid fears that he was might have been on his way to Canada via Pakistan to join alleged Islamic extremists in Ontario.

According to The Telegraph, security sources believe that he was radicalised through contact with a man from the north of England who spoke to him over the Internet.

The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is suspected of being a major recruiting agent and handler for the Islamic cause.

ANI