Albanian sentenced for terrorism in Britain

LONDON, Dec. 16 – An Albanian named Krenar Lusha was sentenced for terrorism in Britain, according to the British media.
At Preston Crown Court he was sentenced to seven years in jail. Lusha, 30, had failed to get asylum in the UK.
Sentencing him to concurrent seven-year sentences for each of five guilty verdicts, Justice Butterfield warned Lusha he would be returned to Albania after his sentence.
The judge added: “To the outside world you were the cheerful, hard-working helpful man whose only interest was to build a better life for yourself and find a Muslim bride, but behind that facade, in my judgment, there was a much darker side to you, a side that positively reveled in violence, death and destruction.”
Lusha had become radicalized whilst studying Islam and Arabic in Qatar as a youth and smuggled himself into the UK on the back of a lorry in January 2000, arriving undetected at Dover.
Lusha had downloaded instructional films on how to make detonators, explosives, a missile and a suicide bomber belt.
A total of three computers were found in his home and police discovered gruesome footage on the hard drives of live beheadings by extreme Islamic groups.
There were also a number of video clips by groups fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan and Chechnya that included excerpts of US military vehicles and personnel being blown up and of US soldiers being shot.