Terror jailing

A MAN who urged Muslims to help assassinate Tony Blair and Gordon Brown was jailed for five years yesterday.

Ishaq Kanmi, 24, wrote on a Jihadi website that the two former prime ministers would be targeted by “martyrdom seekers” if his demands were not met.

He posed online as Umar Rabie – the leader of “al-Qaida in Britain” – as he composed messages on a public computer at the Central Library in Blackburn, Lancashire.

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