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Mohammed Abdullah Azam is a citizen of the United Kingdom who was charged under its counter-terrorism laws in 2002 and convicted in 2003.A security official stated that Azam was charged because he was collecting information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism or had in his possession documents or records containing information of that kind.[citation needed]The Associated Press reported that Mohammed Abdullah Azam was a computer programmer and that three other men who were arrested when his flat was raided were released without charge.The Guardian reported that six men were arrested three days after Azam’s arrest on suspicion of fund-raising proscribed by the anti-terrorist act.Officials said their arrests were unrelated to Azam’s.Accounts of Azam’s nationality varied.