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'Bomb plans found at immigrant's home'
Last updated at 00:00am on 25.11.04A policeman told the Old Bailey today how he found instructions on how to make bombs when he called at the home of a suspected illegal immigrant.
Pc Alan Garnham said: "Inside the shoebox, it was full of various documents and pictures.
Pc Garnham said he asked Jacques Abi-Ayad: "Are these yours?" and he replied: "Yes they are mine".
The court was told that the box contained the Anarchist Cookbook - full of instructions on how to make explosives such as dynamite and Molotov cocktail firebombs.
Pc Garnham and other officers had gone to Abi-Ayad's flat in Gippeswyk Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, after he produced false documents when applying for a National Insurance number.
After he was seen walking away, he took the officers to another flat in London Road, Ipswich, where he had taken some of his possessions, including the shoebox, said Sean Larkin, prosecuting.
He said Abi-Ayad, 40, had printed the material from the internet and copied some of the instructions for firebombs.
Also in the box were press cuttings on terrorist groups al-Qaida and the GIA, as well as on September 11, said Mr Larkin.
The Frenchman of Algerian descent told police he had planned to exact revenge on a man in France with a firebomb.
But Mr Larkin said whether Abi-Ayad was telling the truth or whether he had the bomb-making guide for "more sinister purposes", there could be no "reasonable excuse" for having it.
Abi-Ayad denies a charge under the Terrorism Act of having documents likely to be useful to a terrorist.
