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The cufflink jihadi’s ISIS missile plot

DISGUISED Device in cufflink A CYBER-jihadi stored plans for a NASA-style rocket programme for Islamic State on a USB stick disguised as a cufflink, a court heard.

The James Bond-style gadget was discovered in 34-year-old Samata Ullah’s Nissan car. He admitted five terror offences.

The self-taught computer nerd had uploaded to the device a “wish list” to further the cause of ISIS, along with copies of the terror group’s digital propaganda magazine.

The Old Bailey heard he talked of “chemical weapons”, “viruses”, “cyber warfare” and translating a US manual into Arabic.

Prosecutor Brian Altman said Ullah hoped it would be taught to a corps of ISIS recruits and compared the plan to the “NASA US ballistic programme of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s”.

Ben Emmerson, defending, said Ullah was part of a group of online extremists dubbed “ISIS fanboys”.

He said the offences were committed in the bedroom of Ullah’s mother’s terraced house in Cardiff. He was living an “impoverished and purposeless life” because of his Asperger’s syndrome, he said. Ullah is expected to be sentenced on Tuesday. GADGET FAN Samata Ullah

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