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An Islamic State fanatic who plotted the 'mass murder' of Jews in Manchester 'hero-worshipped' the mastermind of the 2015 Paris terror attack in which 130 people were killed, a prosecutor told a jury.

Waalid Saadoui was also said to have taken an undercover cop named Farouk who exposed the 'operation' on a tour of 'targets' in Jewish areas of north Manchester ahead of a planned attack in the summer of 2024, jurors heard.

The defendant, who was said to have amassed an arsenal of guns, created ten Facebook pages which were used to promote extremism and the profile picture of one of them was an image of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian national who orchestrated the Paris attacks, a jury at Preston Crown Court was told.

Resuming his opening address to the jury, prosecutor Harpre

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