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LONDON - A couple who met on a dating site and began researching how to make homemade explosives and the deadly poison ricin, were jailed on Thursday for plotting Islamic State-inspired chemical and bomb attacks on Britain. Munir Hassan Mohammed, 37, from Derby in central England, was sentenced to life in prison, to serve at least 14 years behind bars, and Rowaida El-Hassan, 33, was given a year sentence.
Mohammed began sharing extremist material within weeks of meeting Londoner El-Hassan, a qualified pharmacist, who in turn helped him find information on making ricin.
When arrested, Mohammed already had two of the ingredients needed to make the highly unstable TATP acetone peroxide , known as the "mother of Satan," which was used by a suicide bomber in an attack on a pop concert at the Manchester Arena last May, killing 22 children and adults. Prosecutors said the couple had met on internet dating site, singlemuslim.
Someone who can teach me new things and inspire me," El-Hassan wrote on her dating profile. She sent messages to him on the WhatsApp service with links to websites on how to make ricin.
He sent her back graphic videos of IS beheadings, shootings and killings of prisoners using explosives. When police arrested him in December , Mohammed, who worked in a food factory making meals for supermarkets, possessed instruction manuals on mobile phone detonators, ricin and how to make explosives, prosecutors said.
He had also contacted an IS commander via Facebook and offered to carry out a "lone actor" mission. Jerusalem Post International news Islamic Terrorism.
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