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A British Muslim student has been jailed for eight years for terror offences.
Mohammed Atif Siddique, 21, provided training material on booby-trap bomb-making and threatened to become a suicide bomber.
Last month, a jury at the High Court in Glasgow took more than eight hours to convict him of possessing and distributing a range of terrorist material via websites.
Siddique also provided instructional material about guns and explosives over the internet.
He had been accused of possessing and collecting items such as CDs and videos of weapons use and guerrilla tactics.
Siddique, from Alva, Clackmannanshire, was also accused of causing a breach of the peace at Glasgow Metropolitan College by threatening to become a suicide bomber and blow up Glasgow.
He sat motionless at the High Court in Edinburgh as the judge handed down his sentence.
Lord Carloway told him: "The articles which you had in your possession included a large number of files stored in a concealed location on your laptop computer which you had with you when about to board a flight to Pakistan on April 5 2006.
"These files are in English and contain terrorist propaganda particularly emanating from al Qaeda, glorifying terrorism - especially suicide bombing - designed to encourage people to commit such acts of terrorism and promote the recruitment of English-speaking, mainly British nationals, to the cause of jihad."
He added: "It is clear from the evidence that you did not have this material because of some innocent curiosity."
he offences were carried out between March 1, 2003 and April 13, 2006.
Mohammed Atif Siddique, 21, provided training material on booby-trap bomb-making and threatened to become a suicide bomber
TextLast month, a jury at the High Court in Glasgow took more than eight hours to convict him of possessing and distributing a range of terrorist material via websites.
He had been accused of possessing and collecting items such as CDs and videos of weapons use and guerrilla tactics.
Lord Carloway told him: "The articles which you had in your possession included a large number of files stored in a concealed location on your laptop computer which you had with you when about to board a flight to Pakistan on April 5 2006.
"These files are in English and contain terrorist propaganda particularly emanating from al Qaeda, glorifying terrorism - especially suicide bombing - designed to encourage people to commit such acts of terrorism and promote the recruitment of English-speaking, mainly British nationals, to the cause of jihad."
He added: "It is clear from the evidence that you did not have this material because of some innocent curiosity."
he offences were carried out between March 1, 2003 and April 13, 2006