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posted by on Thursday May 04 2017, @10:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the using-linux-is-not-a-crime dept.

Linux Mint terrorist Samata Ullah has been jailed for eight years by Cardiff Crown Court.

Ullah, as we reported on Friday, was caught with, among other things, a USB cufflink loaded with a copy of the Linux distro.

The former insurance worker pleaded guilty to five terrorism charges, including being a member of Islamic State and two charges of possessing terrorist material.

Vice's Motherboard offshoot had a look round his "basic Wordpress" blog aimed at promoting Islamic State propaganda. They noted that police investigators seized more than 6.1 terabytes of data from his Cardiff home.

Pronunciation tip: the 'll' in 'Ullah' is a voiceless lateral fricative.


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  • (Score: 2) by kazzie on Thursday May 04 2017, @11:34AM (7 children)

    by kazzie (5309) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 04 2017, @11:34AM (#504271)

    Pronunciation tip: the 'll' in 'Ullah' is a voiceless lateral fricative.

    Are you sure?

    In Welsh the digraph 'll' is indeed a voiceless lateral fricative, but I don't recognise 'Ullah' as a Welsh word or name, so wouldn't pronounce it that way. There are significant African and Asian populations in Cardiff, and have been for over a century. (Many arrived as dockworkers duringthe worldwide trade in South Wales coal.)

    (Source: Native of Wales and fluent speaker of Welsh from birth.)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 04 2017, @12:37PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 04 2017, @12:37PM (#504285)

    Isis fans usually take on Arabic names, so I read Ullah like I would Abdullah.

    • (Score: 2) by kazzie on Thursday May 04 2017, @02:08PM

      by kazzie (5309) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 04 2017, @02:08PM (#504317)

      Likewise.Now if he were called Llewelyn, Oswallt, or Gerallt, then you'd definitely need your voiceless lateral fricatives!

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 04 2017, @12:39PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 04 2017, @12:39PM (#504286)

    It could be short for Ullahnyfryddawelllehynafolybarcudprindanfygythiadtrienusyrhafnauole, couldn't it?

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by gidds on Thursday May 04 2017, @02:11PM (1 child)

    by gidds (589) on Thursday May 04 2017, @02:11PM (#504318)

    You mean it's not a War Of The Worlds reference??

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    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday May 04 2017, @04:52PM

      by bob_super (1357) on Thursday May 04 2017, @04:52PM (#504395)

      Before there was unlimited internet porn, there was 3615 Ulla (Minitel service).

  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday May 04 2017, @08:38PM (1 child)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday May 04 2017, @08:38PM (#504517) Journal

    TFA said he was Welsh, so Welsh pronunciation ought to apply, oughtn't it? If not, you guys aren't doing it right. An old girlfriend of mine had the surname, "Schoon." When I met her I said, "That's interesting, because I would swear you look Chinese." "I am Chinese," she said, "My grandfather was given that name at Ellis Island. His surname had been 'Xun.'" Apparently the immigration officer had been of Dutch extraction, you see.

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    • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Friday May 05 2017, @05:10AM

      by butthurt (6141) on Friday May 05 2017, @05:10AM (#504690) Journal

      I've heard that it's possible to recognise which system of romanisation a non-native speaker of Chinese learned with, by quirks of pronounciation.