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re: ISIS Releases Sick Video Calling For Attacks on Jews in US & Europe
'ISIS Beatle Member' Jailed For Eight Years in Knicker-Smuggling and Guns TERROR Case
Former drug dealer Aine Davis pleaded guilty last month to funding terrorism by persuading his hairdresser wife Amal El-Wahabi to try and smuggle 20,000 euros to him in Syria
BBC 14 NOV 2023
Aine Davis, front kneeling, is a London-born drug dealer who allegedly went to Syria to fight
A West London man alleged to be the fourth ISIS 'Beatle' member has been sentenced to eight years in prison for carrying a weapon for terrorist purposes....  ...
The sentence was made up of six years for the firearms charge and two years for the fundraising charge - both of which are offences under the Terrorism Act.
Former drug dealer Aine Davis pleaded guilty last month to funding terrorism by persuading his hairdresser wife Amal El-Wahabi to try and smuggle 20,000 euros to him in Syria, using a friend, Nawal Masaad, as a courier who hid the money in her knickers. He also pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm for terrorist purposes after posing with a Kalashnikov assault rifle alongside other fighters in a picture he sent to his wife in Britain.
Davis was deported from Turkey last August after serving a seven-and-a-half-year sentence for membership in the so-called Islamic State. On his arrival at Luton airport, he was detained by British counter-terrorism police and charged with the three offences. After an Old Bailey trial in 2014, El-Wahabi became the first person to be found guilty of funding terrorism in Syria and jailed for 28 months, while Ms Masaad was cleared of wrongdoing.
Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, were captured by US-backed Kurdish forces in 2018 and are imprisoned in the US. Kotey has been given a life sentence and Elsheikh is expected to get life when he is formally sentenced later this month.
US prosecutors said Davis travelled to Syria with Kotey and he admitted in a Turkish court that he knew Emwazi from a mosque in West London. Kotey also told interrogators in the US that although Davis visited his house for lunch while in Syria, he had no direct involvement in the hostage-keeping operation.
At one point Davis was suspected by the intelligence agencies in the UK and the US of himself being a member of the 'Beatles' but that is longer believed to be the case.
Nick Price, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said: "Davis left the UK and travelled to Syria to involve himself with a proscribed terrorist organisation. While in Syria, he was able to call upon an associate or a network of like-minded individuals to arrange and deliver 20,000 euros to his wife, which was due to be taken to the country. It is only right he has been convicted and imprisoned in this country."
Davis' barrister, Mark Summers KC, said that Davis wished to apologise to the people of Syria, his own family, and the court. He also said ahead of sentencing that Davis' "early life was difficult and challenging" and religion had been his way out.
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