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A man who is alleged to have failed to alert the authorities about an alleged terror plot to murder Jewish people in north Manchester created a video of him working out at the gym with a religious song supporting Islamic State, a jury has been told.

Bilel Saadaoui, 36, is said to have created the compilation video on June 9, 2022, which shows him working out at a gym while a 'nasheed', or religious song, is playing in the background.

The nasheed, translated from Arabic, starts with the words ‘now, now the fighting is to come’, the jurors were told at Preston Crown Court.

This is also the title of a speech by Shaykh Abu Muhammad Al-Adnani who was said to be a spokesman and senior figure for Islamic State which is a proscribed terror group, Detective Constable Richard Hepwo

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