A man who produced a do-it-yourself jihad book has been sentenced to 12 years in prison in Australia.

澳大利亚一名男子因创作一本“自己动手讨伐异教徒”的书而被判刑12年。

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Bela Khazaal was found guilty last September of producing a 110-page book, in Arabic, entitled Provisions Of The Rules of Jihad.

This advised about terrorist acts such as exploding bombs, shooting down planes and assassinating² people such as former US President George W Bush.

Khazaal had claimed his book was never intended to incite³ terrorist acts.

At his sentencing in Sydney, Justice Megan Latham said she found it "unsurprising" a jury had rejected his defence.

"It beggars belief that a person of average intelligence who has devoted⁴ themselves to the study of Islam over some years would fail to recognise the nature of the material," she said.

"The dissemination⁵（传播，宣传） of extremist activity, connected or unconnected with a terrorist plot, is caught by the government's (anti-terror) scheme ... (because such material) is capable and is shown to foment⁶（热敷，煽动） terrorist activity."

Khazaal, a former Lebanon-born Qantas Airways⁷ baggage-handler, compiled the book from a range of Internet sources, his lawyer George Thomas told the court at an earlier sentencing hearing.

Its full title is Provisions Of The Rules of Jihad - Short Judicial⁸ Rulings And Organisational Instructions For Fighters And Mujahideen Against Infidels.

He is the first person to be convicted on the charge of making a document connected with assistance in a terrorist act, which carries a maximum jail term of 15 years.

The Sydney Morning Herald⁹ reported that US international terrorism consultant¹⁰ Evan Kohlmann, who was called as a witness at Khazaal's trial, described the book as a "do-it-yourself jihad" manual, aimed at people who "don't have Osama bin¹¹ Laden's telephone number".

The Supreme¹² Court heard that, in December 2003, a military court in Lebanon sentenced Khazaal to 10 years' hard labour for terrorism-related offences, including forming a terrorist association for the purpose of committing crimes against people and property.