A self-described “left-wing anarchist” has been sentenced to 13 years in prison on terrorism charges in Britain over plotting an assassination campaign against members of Parliament and for producing and distributing a bomb-making manual.
A self-described “ left-wing anarchist ” has been sentenced to 13 years in prison on terrorism charges in Britain over plotting an assassination campaign against members of Parliament and for producing and distributing a bomb-making manual . Jacob Graham, 20, of Norris Green in Liverpool, described himself as “the first UK home-grown terrorist” and plotted to kill at least 50 people in attacks on government buildings and the homes of politicians, the Manchester Crown Court heard.
to Sky News, Graham’s plans were uncovered by security services in the process of an investigation into the purchasing of dangerous chemicals on the internet. Investigators discovered that he had filmed himself conducting bomb experiments in the back garden of his family home and had buried explosive materials in a separate location. Graham told police that he was a supporter of the Green Party and was an “environmentalist” opposed to how “corporations act and how they damage the Earth”. He also described himself as “left-wing” but said “more like an anarchist”, explaining: “I don’t like the idea of a central control and I don’t really like the monarchy.” A document discovered entitled “My Plan” laid out Graham’s vision for an assassination campaign inspired by American domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski, the “Unabomber”, who waged a decades-long campaign of violence to supposedly promote a society-wide reversion to a more primitive lifestyle and rejection of modernit
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