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LONDON, Nov 17 (KUNA) -- A 23-year-old man was Wednesday charged with
soliciting murder and other offences under the Terrorism Act in relation to a
blog listing MPs it claimed voted for the Iraq war, police said.
Bilal Zaheer Ahmad, of Wolverhampton, England, was arrested last Wednesday
in connection with the website which influenced a student who tried to kill MP
Stephen Timms.
He was appearing at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court in central
London this morning, the police added.
Ahmad was charged with soliciting murder, West Midlands Police, central
England, said. He 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.
The hit list of MPs who voted for the Iraq war was removed from the
extremist website revolutionmuslim.com after the Home Office urged the US to
act against it.
The website hailed the student who tried to kill Labour's Stephen Timms as
a "heroine".
The site was among those cited as an influence by Roshonara Choudhry, 21,
who was jailed for life earlier this month for stabbing MP Timms twice in the
stomach at his office. (end)
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