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Friends talked about blowing up BNP members, court told
A PAIR of West Yorkshire teenagers discussed spying on and then blowing up members of the British National Party after downloading a terrorist manual on how to make bombs, a court has heard.
Former school friends Waris Ali and Dabeer Hussain, who are now both 18, chatted online about using secret cameras to film the BNP to identify targets for an attack, Leeds Crown Court was told yesterday.
The pair, from Ravensthorpe in Dewsbury, are accused of downloading a manual called the Proper Anarchist's Cookbook to research making bombs. The manual contains instructions on how to create explosives such as pipe, nail and fertiliser bombs.
Ali is also accused of possessing quantities of potassium nitrate and calcium chloride for terrorist purposes. The defendants, denied the charges against them in court yesterday.
Prosecutor Annabel Darlow said police had recovered an online conversation between the pair where they discussed blowing up members of the BNP.
She told the court that Ali "nurtured a particular" dislike of the far-right party and had newspaper cuttings about the BNP attached to his bedroom wall at his family home in Dearnley Street.
Miss Darlow said various versions of the Anarchist's Cookbook where found on computers at both Ali's family home and Hussain's home in Clarkson Street.
She said the plan was "no hoax or schoolboy prank" but a 3,000-page manual on how to prepare, commission and instigate acts of terrorism.
"What we consider are a set of instructions, if followed out, would allow someone with no great expertise to produce something which could kill or maim," she told the jury.
The court heard that in 2007 Ali began purchasing "significant amounts" of potassium nitrate and calcium chloride from eBay and then stored the chemicals beneath his bed and under the sofa at his home.
Both chemicals can be used in "recipes" from the manual to make explosives, the jury heard.
The court was also told that Ali had gone to his local library to ask how much fertiliser could be stored in someone's house without arousing suspicions of terrorism. The pair are both former pupils at Westborough High School in Dewsbury.
When Hussain was arrested he told police he was not involved in any terror plot and had been "showing off" to impress his friend.
The hearing continues.
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