LONDON, Nov. 24 (Xinhuanet) -- An Algerian man with suspected al Qaeda links was found guilty by a British court of downloading information on how to blow-up a passenger jet.

    Abbas Boutrab, 27, was arrested in Newtownabbey in Northern Ireland, over suspected immigration offenses, BBC reported on Thursday.

    Police later found computer discs with downloaded bomb-making instructions. But Boutrab had denied the terror charges.

    Crown Court judge Justice Weatherup said the information could have been of use to terrorists.

    Boutrab has spent the last two-and-a-half years on remand in Maghaberry Prison.

    During the trial, the court played computer discs found in his flat, which contained tutorials dictating how to make explosives for use on board airplanes and how to carry out an attack.

    Details on how to make a silencer for an assault rifle were also found along with a number of false identities and passports.

    Boutrab was tried under the Diplock system, where a judge in a terrorist case sits without a jury. He will be sentenced next month. Enditem ¡¡