Following the conviction of five Muslims on conspiracy and terrorism charges, the UK government has also announced that a Muslim who tried to buy SAMs to shoot down airplanes was recently sentenced to nine years in prison.

Secretly.

A Briton who allegedly tried to buy missiles to shoot down airliners has been jailed, it has emerged following the Old Bailey fertiliser bomb trial.

Reporting restrictions covering the conviction of Kazi Nurur Rahman have been lifted.

Rahman, 29, was arrested in November 2005 after trying to buy three Uzi sub-machine guns in a police sting. He pleaded guilty and was jailed for nine years but details were kept secret because of his links to the defendants.

Rahman was arrested only four months after the 7 July attacks in London and when sentencing him in May last year (2006) the judge, Mr Justice David Calvert-Smith, said: “These negotiations were conducted in the immediate aftermath of the worst terrorist outrage ever perpetrated on these shores.

”What was intended was the deaths of large numbers of people in this country.“

When Rahman’s home in Manor Park, east London was searched police found literature relating to the 9/11 ”martyrs” and details of guerrilla warfare and how to execute prisoners.