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We Ap 19 -

BRIT BAGGED IN BAGHDAD -

Mobeen Muneef, 26, from London, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison at Central Criminal Court in Baghdad. On December 7, 2004, he was seen by a Marine patrol passing weapons over a wall to a militant group holed up in Ramadi. At the time he had a fake Iraqi ID card and traces of explosives on his hands.

*Intelligence officials say that while he was living in Tooting, southwest London, he attended meetings of al-Muhajiroun, run by the banned cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed.*

Daniel McGrory says that the sentence is a warning to other Britons not to join groups fighting US-led forces.

:: McGrory, UK Times ::

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