Mohamad Al-Bared, 26 designed the deadly device with an explosive head which was capable of delivering a bomb or a chemical weapon, a court heard
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00:00 This was a man who had a really toxic combination of intent and capability,
00:05 who posed a really significant threat to innocent victims.
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00:46 He had researched chemical weapons including ricin, sarin and mustard gas.
00:52 He'd been having conversations with Daesh abroad.
00:56 He had researched and downloaded lots of extremist material, including beheadings.
01:03 Our assumption is that he intended to deploy the drone and the chemical agents abroad.
01:08 Put forward a defense that he was using his research to de-radicalize people.
01:12 That was clearly a pack of lies.
01:14 A clear evidential case was that he was intent on causing harm to people.
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01:27 If you have any concerns about anybody, your friends, your relations,
01:30 who may be drifting towards this ideology, I would ask you to look up Action Counters
01:35 terrorism online. There's lots of information on there about what you can do and where you
01:39 can pass that information to. And we will take that information and we will deal with it appropriately.