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Mohammed Atif Siddique is a Scottish prisoner who was found guilty, but later cleared on appeal,〔http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Mohamed-Atif-Siddique-Who-Was-Accused-Of-Terrorism-Offences-Has-His-Conviction-Quashed-On-Appeal/Article/201002215545424?lpos=UK_News_First_UK_News_Article_Teaser_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15545424_Mohamed_Atif_Siddique%2C_Who_Was_Accused_Of_Terrorism_Offences%2C_Has_His_Conviction_Quashed_On_Appeal〕 of one of his convictions "collecting terrorist-related information, setting up websites...and circulating inflammatory terrorist publications", resulting in a sentence of eight years' imprisonment. His defence has consistently been that he was a curious 20-year-old youth, still living with his parents, who was "looking for answers on the internet".〔 One of his convictions was quashed on appeal on the 29th of January, 2010. He remains a convicted terrorist. BBC programme maker Peter Taylor reported in his acclaimed three part series "Generation Jihad" that Siddique was linked to extremist Abid Khan, who was later imprisoned for Terrorist offences also. Siddique's parents, of South Asian descent,〔 run a general store in Alva, Clackmannanshire which their son believed should stop serving alcohol as an off-licence.〔Elias, Richard The Scotsman, "A Polite Student from a Quiet Scottish Town?"〕 Arguments with his parents led to him running away from home once, before returning.〔 Siddique attended Alva Academy where he was a "model student", before enrolling as a Computing Technician student at Glasgow Metropolitan College.〔〔The Independent, ('Wannabe suicide bomber' faces 15 years in prison ), Sep 18, 2007〕 ==Arrests== On April 12, 2006, Siddique was accompanying his 40-year-old paternal uncle Mohammed Rafiq on a trip to his farm in the Punjab region, when officials at Glasgow International Airport informed the pair that they would not be allowed to fly. The laptop computer that Siddique was carrying was confiscated,〔Briggs, Billy. "Men freed after Terror Act arrests complain of 'trauma'", April 27, 2006〕 and agents DC Murray and Leigh Graham opened the computers files, against police protocol.〔 His cell phone was also seized, after a photograph of Islamic protestors of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons was discovered. It was alleged he was flying to meet Aabid Khan, a friend of one of the Toronto 18, and thus may have been plotting to involve himself with the group.〔Cramb, Auslan. Daily Telegraph, (Glasgow student 'planned to join Canada plot' ), 18 September 2007〕 〔Swann, Steve. BBC, ( Aabid Khan and his global jihad ), August 18, 2008〕 At 7am the following morning, local police officers, MI5 and Special Branch stormed the Siddique house with a battering ram,〔The Scotsman, (Scottish Anti-Terror Units Arrest Young Muslim ), April 14, 2006〕 arresting Siddique, his older brother Asif, their uncles Rafiq and Mohammed Niaz, 46 - the latter of whom was a 26-year resident of Stirlingshire.〔Sunday Mail, (Student probed over postcards ), April 30, 2006.〕 The uncles were released from Govan police station after thirteen days imprisonment.〔Evening Times, "Two are released after terror probe", 26/04/06〕 Siddique was charged the next day under (Section 58(1b) ) of the Terrorism Act 2000, collecting information that would "likely be useful" to a terrorist.〔 Asif, who was a 25-year-old law student, was released the day after Siddique's charges were laid, after he was questioned about his feelings towards the September 11th attacks after police found postcards sent from friends he maintained in New York City.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mohammed Atif Siddique」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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