Brothers in British court on Syria terror camp charges

Two brothers arrested entering Britain at the port of Dover appeared in a London court on Monday charged with attending a terror training camp in Syria. Mohommod Hassin Nawaz, 29, and Hamza Nawaz, 22, were arrested on September 16 at the southeast English port, having made the short ferry crossing from Calais in France. Police found five rounds of ammunition for an AK-type gun allegedly in their possession. The brothers appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court charged with conspiring together to attend a place used for terrorist training. They are also charged with possessing the rifle ammunition without authority. The brothers spoke only to confirm their names, dates of birth and their address in Stratford, east London, which played host to the 2012 Olympic Games. It is alleged they drove from Stratford to Calais, then flew from Lyon in southeastern France to Turkey, before travelling over the border into Syria. It is also alleged that officers who stopped their car in Dover also found a balaclava, some "heavy-duty clothing", six mobile phones and a SIM card inside a Koran. Mohommod Hassin Nawaz faces a third charge, of possessing a laptop containing material "of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism". It is claimed that this includes four copies of the al-Qaida terror network's online magazine Inspire. The brothers were remanded in custody until October 21, when they are to appear at the Old Bailey in London, England's central criminal court. Separately, police said that a 37-year-old man and a 36-year-old woman arrested in Essex, northeast of London, on Wednesday had been released without charge.