An Islamic religious leader and his wife flew into the UK with missile blueprints and bomb recipes to be used against the West, a court has heard.
Yassin Nassari, 28, was caught carrying instructions to build the same rockets used by the Palastinian terrorist group Hamas as well as a chilling library of extreme Islamic documents, jurors heard.
The Old Bailey heard his wife, Bouchra El-Hor, 24, actively encouraged her husband to become a terrorist and had offered herself and the couple's five-month-old son for martyrdom.
Prosecutor Aftab Jafferjee said: "It is the prosecution's case that they are not merely radicalised Muslims but that Nassari was going to engage in what he and others like him would call a 'jihad' but what the law describes as terrorism.
"He possessed both the ideology and the technology with which that could be achieved either by him or by some other like-minded people.
"His wife was not only aware of his intention, but positively encouraged it - despite that fact that his actions would almost certainly result in his death in some form of combat and would also result in their son being without a father.
"These are mindsets which are beyond ordinary understanding and which possess a chilling resilience."
Nassari and El-Hor were stopped coming into Luton airport on an easyJet flight from Amsterdam on May 13 last year.
A hard drive belonging to Nassari was seized and police were shocked to find it contained detailed instructions to build Al Qassam rockets and explosives.
"From the material held on Nassari's hard drive a viable missile could be manufactured," said Mr Jafferjee.
Among other files, police uncovered hate-filled lectures from radical Islamic clerics including a speech by Dr Azzam entitled "We are terrorists and terrorism is an obligation".
The court heard how Nassari was born in London in 1979 and lived in Ealing.
In 2001 he enrolled on a cognitive science course at the University of Westminster.
But he disappeared between 2002 and 2003 and although previously described as "friendly , thoughtful and wearing Western clothes" he returned to the university a changed man.
Mr Jafferjee said: "He was now sporting long robes and wearing head-wear. He claimed he was the religious leader of the Islamic Society at the University's campus in Harrow.
"To put it bluntly he was now radicalised. Attention to his academic obligations was intermittent and he did not achieve his degree."
Nassari married Dutch national El-Hor on March 24 2005 and the pair moved to Syria shortly afterwards, where Nassari worked as an English teacher and clothing supplier.
His wife returned to Holland in November 2005 to have the couple's first child, Mohammed, and Nassari joined her on April 30.
Just weeks before his departure he had downloaded rocket plans and Jihadi literature onto his hard drive.
"It was material do to with the construction of missiles and the handling of those and other explosives such as landmines," said the prosecutor. "Material, and a vast amount of it, to do with Jihad - both the ideology of Jihad and video files of the gruesome application of Jihad in a variety of conflict zones."
The jury was shown blueprints for the type of rockets "widely known to be used by Hamas" as well as instructions for making highly explosive "Urea Nitrate".
Also hidden in the files were articles entitled "Virtues of martyrdom in the path of Allah" and "Islamic Ruling on the Permissibility of Self-Sacrifical Operation - Suicide or Martyrdom?".
"He also had a variety of material regarding Jihad fitness training, martial arts and hand to hand combat," said Mr Jafferjee.
The prosecutor said other material relating to Nassari's Cognitive Science degree and clothing business proved he was responsible for the content of the hard-drive.
"He was clearly going either to create or to enter a conflict zone," said Mr Jafferjee.
"The technology was in place, the ideology was in place. The construction of the rockets - even though designed to be long range - is a dangerous activity.
"Handling land mines is a dangerous activity. His decision to die is his right. His decision to injury or kill is not.
"Nor in law is it defensible for his wife to withhold information she plainly possessed."
Nassari, from Ealing, denies possessing an article for the purposes of terrorism and possession of a document of record likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.
El-Hor, also from Ealing, denies failing to disclose information about acts of terrorism.
The jury was shown a series of pictures and diagrams found on Nassari's computer which gave detailed instructions to build a rocket.
The documents were hidden away in a number of files which were downloaded from the Internet on the day he bought his new laptop in April last year.
Mr Jafferjee said computer experts will say Nassari was in contact with others on Internet discussion forums about the construction of rockets, similar to the Al Qassam missile used by Hamas.
He said: "Experts will tell you that the first five images comprise images and diagrams of the apparent component parts of a rocket engine.
"The expert on Al Qassam rockets concludes that the images all depict rocket bodies with a single nozzle which show a similarity to the Nassan rocket which is widely used by Hamas."
The computer files showed detailed measurements and information about the missile components, how to make the explosive charge and the assembly of the completed rocket.
They also included instructions to the rocket-makers to use driveshafts from the Peugeot 504 "found in breakers' yards" for the fuselage, if good quality stainless steel was not available.
Mr Jafferjee said: "It is the considered view of two military experts that this document when taken together with other documents you have seen appears to refer to an Al Qassam 1.5 rocket and does provide details of how to construct the missile and methods of making the propellant.
"From the material we have just been looking at it is the military experts' view that a viable missile could be manufactured."
He continued: "That Nassari should possess such damning material is no unfortunate coincidence - it's by design.
"That's amply documented by other material on the hard drive and some CDs in the house in Ealing, it reveals the ideology behind the possession of the explosives material.
"You will have to decide whether the material you have seen can have any explanation for anything other than a terrorist purpose or likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.
"Be it Nassari or others who would be supplied with that material by him."
The trial continues.
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