'Suspect had royal's details'

A MUSLIM terror suspect collated information about members of the royal family alongside instructions on how to kill "non-believers", a court has been told.

Aabid Khan, 23, arrested after his latest trip to Pakistan two years ago, had details about their lives and "also where they lived", it was claimed.
"Is he a royalist, is he fascinated by the royal family?" asked, Simon Denison, prosecuting. "Or is there some other reason why he has collated that information?"

The barrister told London’s Blackfriars Crown Court the material was among a "mass" of files, videos and other documents found on the 23-year-old when he was detained at Manchester airport.
He said they were contained on two computer hard drives in his suitcase which were analysed by police experts.
During the second day of his opening address at the beginning of a two-month trial of the former "fast food" worker and three co-defendants detained later, he explained Khan’s "terrorist encyclopaedia" contained instructions on how to carry out surveillance, prepare explosives, use poisons and advised on preparing for "martyrdom".

He said one document spoke of "assassinating named personnel as well as foreign tourists and freeing captured brothers from the enemy".
It also backed the "spreading of rumours" and "blasting and destroying places of amusement, immorality and sin", as well as embassies, "vital economic centres" and bridges.
Mr Denison told jurors there was information about London’s Tower Bridge, similar structures in America, and maps of New York’s and Washington’s subway systems.
Among the videos recovered were some that featured the Washington Memorial in Virginia and the World Bank in the US capital.

The barrister said another file spoke of the maturity, obedience and "willingness" a jihadist required to martyr himself for his goal of establishing the global rule of Islam.
Forged identity documents, training, weapons purchasing, undercover operations, planning assassinations, and coaching "brothers" to answer questions when travelling to and from Pakistan were also dealt with.
Recipe for ricin

So, too, were "guidelines to beating and killing hostages", something Islamic scholars had ruled was allowed if they "insisted on withholding information from Muslims".
Also permissible were suicide bombings.
Counsel told the court other "examples from the mass of information" recovered by police were a Terrorists’ Handbook, the Mujahideen Explosives Handbook, and the Mujahideen Poisons Handbook.

Jurors were told that apart from a recipe for ricin, the latter contained a section which warned the reader doses had been based on experiments with rabbits.
But it then went on to say it was "hoped brothers will carry out their own experiments on kuffir (non-believers)".
In the dock are 23-year-olds Aabid Hussein Khan, of Undercliffe, Bradford, West Yorkshire, and Sultan Muhammad, of nearby Hanover Square, Manningham; Ahmed Sulieman, 30, from Woolwich, south-east London, and Hammaad Munshi, 18, from Saville Town, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.

They variously deny 13 counts alleging possessing articles for a purpose connected with terrorism and making a record of information likely to be useful in terrorism between November 23, 2005, and June 20, the following year.
Mr Denison said: "The prosecution say these defendants were motivated by their common cause, that of violent jihad against non-believers and the computers and CDs and books that had that contained the sort of information I have referred to were the necessary tools of their trade, possessed to be used in furtherance of that violent cause."

The trial continues.