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Rabat - One day after he had been deported back to Morocco from Great Britain on Wednesday, Younes Tsouli, a Moroccan alleged Jihadist who was described by British media as "the world’s most wanted cyber-jihadist", set fire to his parent's house in Rabat and refused to surrender to police, threatening them to kill himself with an edged weapon.
Tsouli, in his thirties, arrived in London in 2001 with his father, a Moroccan diplomat. He studied IT at a college in central London. He had lived in Great Britain for nearly ten years before being sentenced to 16 years in prison for incitement to commit acts of terrorism on the internet.
He served the sentence at Belmarsh High Security Prison in London, where he was denied access to the internet. Based on documents found by British investigators on his computer, he had also been sentenced for hacking credit cards, creating websites and forums supporting the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization.
The young Moroccan, aged 23 at the time, used his London flat to help Islamist extremists wage an online propaganda war against the West. He even took on the user name of Irhabi 007- Irhabi meaning Terrorist in Arabic. He posted videos condoning al-Qaeda, including messages from Osama bin Laden and images of the kidnapping and murder of hostages in Iraq.
It is believed that al Qaeda leaders in Iraq contacted Tsouli and took the decision to recruit him to help with their efforts to reach a wider audience. He later became the administrator of a web forum used by extremists to communicate with each other and through which he shared information as how to make explosives and video material from al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Upon his return to Morocco, he set fire to his family's house and threatened to jump from the rooftop of an apartment that housed the Consul General of Great Britain in Rabat.
According to media reports, it took Moroccan authorities, assisted by a psychiatrist, nearly 13 hours to negotiate his surrender. On Thursday, Morocco expressed its dissatisfaction with the British Government "which have not mentioned the dangerousness of this person, insisting to keep him free, which jeopardizes other people’s lives."
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