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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/exba-man-guilty-of-terror-plot.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Former BA computer expert Rajib Karim has been convicted of conspiring with a wanted terrorist to blow up a plane" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-exba-man-guilty-of-terror-plot.jpg" alt="Former BA computer expert Rajib Karim has been convicted of conspiring with a wanted terrorist to blow up a plane"/></a></p>
<p>A former British Airways computer expert has been convicted of conspiring with a wanted terrorist to blow up a plane.</p>
<p>Rajib Karim, 31, used his position at the airline to plot an attack with Anwar al-Awlaki, a notorious radical preacher associated with al Qaida.</p>
<p>A jury at Woolwich Crown Court in south east London found him guilty of four counts of engaging in preparation for terrorist attacks.</p>
<p>Karim plotted to blow up an aircraft, shared information of use to al-Awlaki, offered to help financial or disruptive attacks on BA and gained a UK job to exploit terrorist purposes, the jurors ruled.</p>
<p>Karim was &#8220;committed to an extreme jihadist and religious cause&#8221; and was &#8220;determined to seek martyrdom&#8221;, jurors were told.</p>
<p>The Bangladeshi national, who moved with his wife and son to Newcastle in 2006, had already admitted being involved in the production of a terrorist group&#8217;s video, fundraising and volunteering for terror abroad.</p>
<p>Karim, a privately-educated IT expert from a middle-class family in Dhaka, was lured into becoming an avid supporter of the extremist organisation Jammat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) by his younger brother, Tehzeeb.</p>
<p>But their plan to live in an Islamic state was put on hold when Karim moved to England in December 2006, fearing his son was dying of bowel cancer.</p>
<p>Karim, described as &#8220;mild-mannered, well-educated and respectful&#8221;, hid his hatred for Western ways from colleagues by joining a gym, playing football and never airing extreme views but he was using his access to the airline&#8217;s offices in Newcastle and at Heathrow to spread confidential information., the court heard.</p>
<p>Bearded Karim stood emotionless in the dock as the foreman of the jury delivered the four verdicts. Mr Justice Calvert-Smith set a sentencing date at the same court of March 18.</p>
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