ISIS Supporter Who Tried to Recruit Terrorists Around The World From UK Home Jailed For Seven Years.
ISIS Cheerleader, 23, Calling Himself 'Captain the Illiterate' Who 'Hated Smart People' Set up a Facebook Page to Encourage Attacks on The West.
UK Home Office Has Now Announced The Launch of Artificial Intelligence Technology That Can Identify ISIS Propaganda Videos and Prevent Them From Being Uploaded to Any Video Platform. 
Independent UK, 28 Feb 2018.
Mobile phone worker Mohammed Kamal Hussain was jailed for recruiting Isis supporters Metropolitan Police A man who tried to recruit ISIS fighters around the world from his London home has been jailed.
Hussain was turned in by a man from Bosnia he had targeted abroad.
Police discovered his activities after the man emailed the Home Office in March 2017, saying he had received a Facebook message from a stranger inviting him to join ISIS.
The Bosnian had recently created a Facebook profile when he received the unsolicited post, saying:
'I message many people on the Facebook in order to stimulate them to join the ISIS.'
Investigators established the message was from Hussain, a Bangladeshi national, who had over-stayed his visa and was living in east London.
They also discovered he had been sent a chemistry app by a contact via the Telegram social media service which offered a 'virtual laboratory' to 'mix chemicals in virtual containers'.
It added:
'When the explosion switch is on, all explosions will occur as in reality.'
He had also downloaded a recipe for a pipe bomb from an al-Qaeda magazine publication.
When police arrested Hussain in a car park near his work in Purfleet in Essex, they found he had an ISIS video called 'Procession of Light' which featured suicide bombers, including a young boy, saying their prayers, getting into a vehicle and being watched by a drone as they drove to a vehicle check point and then blew themselves up.
Hussain also had an open Facebook page which he used to encourage support for ISIS, including one entry that featured a picture of a child carrying a black ISIS flag and another from January last year that read:
'The West has been plundering our wealth for centuries. Now is the time for payback. In Sha' Allah, the chickens will come home to roost.'
Hussain told police that he was both anti-Western and anti-Eastern, explaining that he meant 'governments, including my own Bangladeshi government in the East.'
He added: 'I love everything for the sake of Allah and I hate everything for the sake of Allah.'
Hussain's plan was to retrieve his passport from the Home Office and travel back to Bangladesh, before going on to Saudi Arabia to wait for 'Armageddon,' he explained in court.
He added he collected ISIS publications because 'I consider IS a sign of the end of days and I want to know about their ideology.
Hussain read one edition of Rumiyah, which had a guide to knife attacks 'for the ideological matter and their teachings and that sort of things, but I never read how to kill people with a knife,' he said.
His collection of extremist books were about religion, he added, claiming he was 'seeking the truth' but 'never planning an attack'.
But he added: 'I'm Muslim, I shouldn't like everything. I love everything for the sake of Allah and I hate everything for the sake of Allah, that's it.'
The judge told him:
'Far from observing the sacred covenant of security, you disseminated your twisted views and attempted to persuade others to join you in support of Islamic State.
'You glorified activity which strikes at the very heart of a civilized and democratic society.
'In no sense do your opinions represent the beliefs of decent, law abiding and peaceful Muslims who live in this country.'
Naeem Mian QC, defending, asked Hussain: 'You are an over-stayer and your passport is with the Home Office?'
'I don't have any option other than to go to Bangladesh,' he said
After his arrest, Hussain claimed he was 'just doing what Facebook says to do and "share your mind".'
Hussain had at least four Facebook accounts, opening a new one each time the existing account was closed by the social media company.
The Judge Peter Lodder QC criticised the firm saying 'it may surprise some to know that the security services are unable to view private messages on Facebook', and had to rely on a screenshot instead.
Hussain was found guilty of supporting ISIS and encouragement of terrorism. He had previously been living in London for seven years and working in a mobile phone warehouse called the London Magic Store.
His student visa withdrawn after a bogus college he was attending in Whitechapel was shut down and he was contacted by the Home Office who labelled him an 'over-stayer' and ordered him to return home.
While he was attending a bogus college in Whitechapel, east London, it was shut down and his student visa withdrawn.
Using the name, 'Captain the illiterate', Hussain told one female contact, called Lujain Ahmed, 'I'm a simple man...I hate the smart people. Inshallah, I will be smart after I go to Paradise...before die, wanna punish some kuffar,' and added: 'I'm bored of this world.'
Asked in court how he came up with the name, Hussain told Naeem Mian QC, defending: 'It doesn't have any meaning, I just liked this name.'
Simon Davis, prosecuting, said it was plain that Hussain was 'aligned with Islamic State' and wanted to join them.
The court heard he made Google searches for 'suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices' just two days after the Manchester Arena bombing.
Then on 29 May, he looked for 'Ariana Grande' and 'Manchester attack concert' and, the next day, for 'ruling on blowing oneself up' and 'suicide bombings and martyrdom in Islam.'
On 3 June, Hussain downloaded an image of the Queen and then searched for 'make terror into kafirs heart', followed the next day by 'London Bridge attack statement' from East London Mosque, the day after the attack.
Hussain had earlier told Ahmed:
'I will not be calm until I make hijrah [emigrate] and fight with the kuffar...Why my sisters not like u? I should kill them.'
Later the same day, he added:
'We should do something big' and on June 4, he expanded: 'If we cannot make hijrah [emigrate] then wherever we live fighting is coming upon us.
'If you live Bangladesh, UK, Middle East anywhere you go you have face fight...I believe this is the beginning of 3rd world war and it's will be end after killing dajjal [anti-christ].'
Detectives at the Counter-Terrorism Referral Unit trawled thousands of messages Hussain had sent on Facebook, Telegram and WhatsApp.
Mohammed Kamal Hussain, 28, sent thousands of messages aiming to generate support for the terrorist group using Facebook, WhatsApp and the Telegram messaging service.
Hussain, a Bangladeshi national who had overstayed his visa and was living in east London, was jailed for seven years at Kingston Crown Court.
The jury found him guilty of two counts of encouraging terrorism and one count of supporting a proscribed organisation.
Commander Dean Haydon, head of the Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command, said:
“This investigation started with one conscientious individual trusting his instincts and reporting something suspicious.
“He could have ignored the message Hussain sent him but instead he took a screenshot of the message and contacted the UK authorities immediately. It is in great part thanks to him that police were able to bring Hussain to justice.”
Mr Haydon encouraged others concerned about online material to refer it to them via the website www.act.gov.uk
Hussain was linked to the message by the Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit, which specialises in identifying and seeking the removal of terrorist material, and an urgent investigation was launched.
Detectives trawled thousands of messages sent by Hussain, including Facebook posts encouraging people to join Isis and launch attacks and which included a speech by leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Commander Haydon said the fanatic was “actively seeking to recruit Isis followers”, adding: “We know from the disturbing material we found on his devices that he supported ISIS.
“The material included videos of barbaric Isis violence and warped reasoning for killing people, including children and Muslims.”
Officers from Counter Terrorism Command arrested Hussain on 30 June 2017.
He was sentenced after officials warned of the rising threat of “remote radicalisation” online, which makes plots harder to detect.
ISIS has generated support around the world using its sophisticated propaganda network, including videos, radio bulletins, magazines, newsletters and websites.
The terrorist group’s media operations suffered a hit during military offensives that drove militants out of its self-declared “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq but have since recovered.
Propaganda messages are regularly sent out in multiple languages from Isis factions operating in countries including Afghanistan, Egypt and Libya, being translated and spread onwards by supporters.
A global crackdown on terrorist material by firms including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube has seen the vast majority of ISIS propaganda on the platforms removed, but it continues to operate on Telegram and smaller sites.
Earlier this month, the Home Office announced the launch of artificial intelligence technology that can identify Isis propaganda videos and prevent them from being uploaded to any video platform.
ISIS has generated support around the world using its sophisticated propaganda network, including videos, radio bulletins, magazines, newsletters and websites.
The terrorist group’s media operations suffered a hit during military offensives that drove militants out of its self-declared “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq but have since recovered.
Propaganda messages are regularly sent out in multiple languages from ISIS factions operating in countries including Afghanistan, Egypt and Libya, being translated and spread onwards by supporters.
A global crackdown on terrorist material by firms including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube has seen the vast majority of ISIS propaganda on the platforms removed, but it continues to operate on Telegram and smaller sites.
Earlier this month, the Home Office announced the launch of artificial intelligence technology that can identify ISIS propaganda videos and prevent them from being uploaded to any video platform.
“This Government has been taking the lead worldwide in making sure that vile terrorist content is stamped out,” UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd said.