British man jailed for 5 years over planned terror plot to kill Tony Blair, Gordon Brown
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LONDON (AP) — A man who urged British Muslims to join a plot to assassinate former British prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown is being jailed for five years.
The 24-year-old Ishaq Kanmi attempted to recruit people for his murder campaign using an assumed identity and by falsely claiming he led an al-Qaida-linked terrorist group in Britain.
But prosecutors told Manchester Crown Court that Kanmi's group was fictitious and he had no links to al-Qaida. Labour leaders Blair and Brown had supported the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
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Judge Colin Crichton Mackay said Thursday that Kanmi had won support for his bogus plot to kill in 2008.
Kanmi pleaded guilty to inviting support for a terror group and possessing material likely to be useful to a terrorist.