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Martyn Gilleard, 31, of Goole, east Yorkshire, was a paid-up member of the National Front, the White Nationalist Party and the British People’s Party.
Police officers discovered four home-made nail bombs, as well as bullets and bladed weapons in his flat.
Prosecutors said Gilleard had written that he had wanted to “save” Britain from “multi-racial peril”.
Gilleard was convicted of preparing for terrorist acts and possessing articles and collecting information for terrorist purposes.
During the trial, he admitted having a collection of Nazi memorabilia, saying Nazism appealed to him because of the way the Nazis had “rebuilt” Germany.
Officers had found “potentially lethal bladed weapons”, 34 bullets for a 2.2 calibre firearm and printouts from the internet about committing acts of terrorism, the court heard.
These included instructions on how to make a bomb and how to kill someone with poison.
Explaining why he made the bombs, Gilleard said: “I’d had a couple of cans. I was just sat around bored.”
“An idea popped up and I thought,’Why not?’ I thought, ‘I’ve got pretty much what I need,’ and I threw them together.”
Unit 2 Wars
Text 2.1 Conflicts rage across the globe
By Christy Oglesby
CNN
Friday, January 31, 2003
[Editors Note: The analysis and views presented in this project are based on interviews with experts at the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan national membership organization, think tank and publisher, with headquarters in New York, officers in Washington, D.C., and programs nationwide.]
(CNN) – Iraq and North Korea have dominated the world’s attention in recent months, yet in countries and regions around the globe, strife smolders with sporadic notice.
Civil war. Mutilations. Threat of nuclear deployment. Human trafficking. Starving babies. Those are some of the seeds and harvest of conflicts in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America.
Neglecting these conflicts is dangerous, said Arthur Helton, director for peace and conflict studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, a national think tank and publisher with headquarters in New York and offices in Washington.
“States that are weak and cannot police their own territories, that are involved in wars among their people, those are places that dedicated terrorists can inhabit,” Helton said in an interview. Experts noted that is what happened in Afghanistan under the Taliban, where al Qaeda terrorists were able to plan and train for attacks in the years before September 11, 2001.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan made a similar point recently when he told journalists that crises throughout the globe demand attention despite the current spotlight on Iraq and North Korea.
Though the U.N. Security Council is charged with focusing on Iraq at this time, Annan noted, “The international community should be focusing on some of the other agendas, other issues”.
Experts at the Council on Foreign Relations provided CNN.com with outlines of some of the world’s regional conflicts they consider particularly critical and offered recommendations for possible solutions.
The countries and regions in conflict identified for this project are: Angola, the Balkans, Burundi, Colombia, Indonesia, Kashmir, the Philippines, Uzbekistan, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.
These are areas wrestling with instability, rebels or hostilities that could jeopardize other continents or the world, the experts said.
“It is not possible to live in a world of gated communities”, Helton said. “It is just not a sustainable future to think that North America and Western Europe can prosper while Africa continues to spiral downward”.
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