Bilal Zaheer Ahmad was arrested on 10 November 2010 An internet blogger has been jailed for 12 years after admitting soliciting the murder of MPs who had voted in favour of the Iraq War.
Bilal Zaheer Ahmad, 23, from Wolverhampton, was also sentenced for other terrorism offences.Prosecutors at Bristol Crown Court said Ahmad had used a website called revolutionmuslim.com to encourage others to attack MPs.
The website has since been closed down by the authorities in the US.
Sentencing Ahmad, the judge, Mr Justice Royce, described him as a "viper in our midst" and said he was "willing to go as far as possible to strike at the heart of our system".
Ahmad, an IT graduate, posted messages on the Islamic extremist website a day after a Muslim woman had been jailed for trying to murder a senior Labour MP, Bristol Crown Court heard.
The judge told him: "Whatever our views on the Iraq War, we are a democracy.
"You purport to be a British citizen, but what you stand for is totally alien to what we stand for in our country."
Ahmad was jailed for 12 years, with an additional five years' extended period on licence.
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