Green member behind Zionism motion named as 'close friend' of jailed al-Qaeda supporter in court
He denied planning a suicide attack.The BBC has contacted Speitan for comment. The existence of the letter was first reported by the Jewish Chronicle, external and it has been seen by BBC News.Pham, a Vietnamese-born British national who had lived in London, was arrested at Heathrow Airport in July 2011 after spending seven months in Yemen. He was found in possession of a live round of ammunition.In 2015 he was extradited to the US and in 2016 sentenced to 40 years in prison after he admitted three counts based on his support for the group al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), an offshoot of al-Qaeda.
- ▪He denied planning a suicide attack.The BBC has contacted Speitan for comment.
- ▪The existence of the letter was first reported by the Jewish Chronicle, external and it has been seen by BBC News.Pham, a Vietnamese-born British national who had lived in London, was arrested at Heathrow Airport in July 2011 after spending
- ▪He was found in possession of a live round of ammunition.In 2015 he was extradited to the US and in 2016 sentenced to 40 years in prison after he admitted three counts based on his support for the group al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQ
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Green member behind Zionism motion named as 'close friend' of jailed al-Qaeda supporter in courtImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Lubna Speitan gave evidence on behalf of a British national who was accused of plotting to carry out a suicide attack at Heathrow AirportByHarry Farley, Political correspondent and Ewan Somerville, Political reporterPublished7 minutes agoThe Green Party member behind a motion which declared Zionism to be racism was named in court documents as a "close friend" of a man who was jailed after being accused of plotting a suicide bomb attack at Heathrow Airport.Lubna Speitan, a British-Palestinian artist, proposed the Green conference motion defining Zionism as an ideology supporting "an ethnonationalist Jewish state".Court documents from 2015 show she offered…
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