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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Iraqi-Kurd Jailed in UK over Driverless Car Bomb Plot

Farhad Salah. British police file photo

A UK court has found an Iraqi-Kurd guilty of plotting a terror attack using an explosive device in a remotely-controlled vehicle, giving him a 15-year prison sentence.

Farhad Salah, 24, was found guilty at Sheffield Crown Court on Friday of preparing to commit acts of terrorism, Press Association (PA) reported.

Jurors heard Salah, an ISIS supporter, had been testing small improvised explosive devices in preparation for an attack at the time of his arrest.

A week before he was arrested on December 2017, he messaged a Facebook contact saying: "My only attempt is to find a way to carry out … an operation with cars without driver, everything is perfect only the program is left.”

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