An ISIS-inspired terrorist who stored extremist content on USB cufflinks has been jailed for eight years.
Samata Ullah, 34, of Cardiff, admitted to being a member of so-called Islamic State, as well as taking part in terrorist training, preparing terrorist acts and possessing articles for terrorist purposes.
When police raided his home in September last year they seized 150 digital devices, including laptops and phones, and 30 pairs of metal cufflinks (similar to those pictured) containing tiny USB sticks. In total the devices held more than 8TB of data.
One USB contained a ‘wish list’ to boost the ISIS cause. This included chemical weapons, viruses, cyber warfare and translating a US manual on rocket engines into Arabic. It also had back issues of ISIS’s propaganda magazine.
Ullah, a British citizen…