Usman Khan tried to invite Muslims to jihadi training camp in Pakistan

TERRORIST Usman Khan was recorded inviting fellow Muslims to his jihadi training camp in Pakistan.

Khan's attempts to recruit others to his cause were captured by bugs hidden by the security services at his Tunstall home.

Usman Khan

The 20-year-old was also heard talking about how state benefits could be used to fund the training facility, which he had set up with his fellow radicals.

Khan is awaiting sentence at Woolwich Crown Court after admitting preparing for terrorist acts, along with two others from Stoke-on-Trent.

Prosecutor Andrew Edis yesterday read excerpts from a conversation between Khan and an unknown man, which had been recorded at Khan's home in Persia Walk, Tunstall, in December 2010.

The two men discussed politics, ideology and their love of Osama bin Laden, who they described as "beautiful".

Khan then went on to talk about the terrorist training camp in Kashmir, which he and his colleagues Mohammad Shahjahan and Nazam Hussain had been funding.

He invited the other man to come to the camp, arguing that training for armed jihad is preferable to engaging in dawah, or preaching, in the UK.

Khan says: "Brothers should encourage other brothers to come.

"We've got something serious set up.

" If you want to see the set-up, go there, check it out. Invite brothers to come and check it out."

He said that once trained the jihadist could then return to the UK, with the only possible outcomes being victory, prison or martyrdom.

Khan also talked about the funding of the training camp in Kashmir, which had been disguised as a normal madrassa (an Islamic seminary).

He explained that he could make more money on Jobseeker's Allowance in a day, than he could earn in a month in Kashmir.

Mr Edis said: "Khan's intention is to supply money and people to something which is described as an existing set-up.

"He had recently returned from Pakistan and we draw the inference that he had been there and he was going back there within a few weeks.

"He says that this set-up seems on the surface to be a normal madrassa, but the inference is that it is actually a place where firearms training takes place.

"It's also quite clear that the hope is that there will be a significant number of UK citizens who will attend there.

"His concern is to make it clear that this is a serious project, which is in contrast to just sitting around doing nothing and watching videos."

The court also heard excepts from a later conversation at Persia Walk, where Khan was discussing planting bombs in Stoke-on-Trent pubs with his fellow terrorists.

Shahjahan, a 27-year-old, of Burmarsh Walk, Burslem, talked about doing "a little vigilante thing" involving two pubs, before the other cell members left for the training camp in Pakistan in January.

They questioned whether they would have to buy drinks as a pretext for their presence in a pub and discussed getting a white man to plant the bomb for them.

This plot was never taken any further, as all four members of the Stoke-on-Trent cell were arrested on December 20, along with five others in Cardiff and London.

Shahjahan, Hussain, aged 26, of Grove Street, Cobridge, and Khan admitted being engaged in conduct in preparation for acts of terrorism between November 1 and December 20, 2010.

Mohibur Rahman, aged 27, of North Road, Cobridge, admitted possessing an article for a terrorist purpose.

In total, the nine men involved in the network were arrested in police raids in December 2010.