Al-Bashir Al-Faqih

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A Libyan expatriate living in the United Kingdom, Al-Bashir Mohammed Al-Faqih (Arabic: البشير محمد الفقيه‎) was convicted on two counts of possessing computer documents "likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism"^[1]

Allegedly a former member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, al-Faqih was arrested in March 2006, and a search of his premises revealed "books, CD-ROMs, documents and audio cassettes" desribed as "radical" by police, as well as a manual about the construction of explosives, and a book he had written about how setting up a group dedicated to overthrowing the Libyan government of Muammar al-Gaddafi.^[2]