Briton charged over Iraq MPs list
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
London, Nov 17, IRNA -- A 23-year-old man on Wednesday was charged with soliciting murder and other offences under the Terrorism Act in relation to a blog listing British MPs who voted for the Iraq war in 2003.
Bilal Zaheer Ahmad was also charged with three counts of possessing information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism under the Terrorism Act 2000, West Midlands Police said.
Bilal, from Wolverhampton in central England, was arrested last week when police seized his computer following the conviction of Roshonara Choudhry for the attempted murder of Labour MP Stephen Timms.
Choudhry, aged 21, stabbed Timms, a former minister, twice with a kitchen knife at his east London constituency in May in what was described as a revenge attack for voting for the Iraq war. She was jailed for life.
West Midlands Police said the website was mentioned in the case of Timms and were “treating the contents and implications” very seriously.
The list of MPs who voted for the Iraq War has reportedly been removed from the site, revolutionmuslim.com, after the Home Office urged authorities in the US, where it is published, to intervene.
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