Man linked to UK synagogue attacker jailed over terror plan

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Mohammad Bashir was jailed for life by a UK court for planning terrorist acts with Jihad Al-Shamie, who carried out a deadly stabbing attack at a Manchester synagogue last October.

A friend of a man who went on a deadly stabbing spree at a Manchester synagogue was jailed for life by a UK court on Thursday for planning a separate terror attack with him. Jihad Al-Shamie went on a knife rampage targeting a mosque in the northwestern city last October that killed two people. Al-Shamie was later shot dead by police. His friend Mohammad Bashir, 31, last month pleaded guilty to the preparation of terrorist acts. Last August, he drove Al-Shamie on a trip to spy on the UK’s Defence...