Syrian cleric Yassin Nassari — caught at Luton Airport in England carrying blueprints for a Quassam artillery rocket — has been found guilty of possessing documents "likely to be useful to a terrorist" and sentenced to three-and-a-half-years in prison. Nassari, who lives in England, was returning from Syria and Holland with his wife and their baby when they were stopped at the airport last year. The BBC has more:

Nassari, a teacher, businessman and student of Arabic, was found not guilty of the more serious offence of possessing articles for terrorist purposes.

Sentencing him, Judge Gerald Gordon said: "I have come to the conclusion that, sadly, like a number of young Muslims, you have somehow been indoctrinated into beliefs supporting terrorism by others. I have no doubt you wanted to immerse yourself in this fundamentalist trash, but in the material available to me there is nothing to indicate that any actual terrorist use would have been made of it by anyone."

Nassari told the court that he did not know the blueprints for the rocket were in his possession and that they had been put there by someone else. In a search of Nassari's appartment, police found videos of terrorist attacks, beheading videos, and literature on how to martyr yourself in the name of jihad. More from the BBC:

The trial also heard that Nassari had a letter from his wife in which she appeared to be encouraging him to become a terrorist martyr.

The court was told it read: "I am so proud of my husband. I am happy that Allah has granted you the chance to be a martyr…Maybe one day I can follow you. If I can't, I will send our son to you so he can follow his father's footsteps."

But Mrs El-Hor said the letter was a work of fiction and she knew nothing about what Nassari was doing. 

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