Jabed Hussain, 22, posted laughing emoji faces to an undercover police officer as he bragged about carrying out a terror attack

An ISIS fanatic who posted a laughing emoji as he bragged to an undercover officer that he would 'pop off' a bomb in the UK has today been jailed for nine years.

Jabed Hussain, 22, could not contain his glee about the 'big ops' and told the officer he was going to make sure 'kuffars get it big time'.

He said: 'I'm planning to get together a group of brothers and then pop it off, inshallah.'

The Old Bailey heard a huge stash of IS propaganda was found on Hussain's devices after he was arrested on suspicion of planning to join IS in Syria in April 2016.

Prosecutor Oliver Glasgow QC said when Hussain was asked where the potential 'big ops' would take place, he replied: 'The UK, were else LOL :)'

He also used a laughing face alongside the 'LOL', meaning laugh out loud, to the undercover officer with whom he had secret meetings at London's British Library.

He said he wanted the kaffir to get it 'big time' and sadded 'if this pops off then the security will be mad hot'.

Hussain was making plans to join IS in Syria last year when he was snared following an undercover investigation by the Met's Counter Terrorism Command.

Judge Anuja Dhir QC told him: 'You had, at the very least, considered and discussed with others carrying out an act of terrorism in the UK.

'If your plans to make your way to Syria had not been successful, I am sure you would have turned your mind to considering that more seriously.'

She added: 'I am satisfied you were intent on fighting for IS and that you intended that your actions would cause death, destruction and disorder.'

The Old Bailey heard, that on January 18 last year Hussain had changed his name by deed poll to Ishaq Jabir Hussain so that he could get a new passport and make a second attempt to reach Syria.

He recruited a Muslim workmate at the accountancy firm where he worked in Barking, East London to counter-sign the application.

Hussain then told the workmate that he did not like non-Muslims and invited him to watch ISIS videos with him but the worker reported him to his boss and he was sacked.

An undercover police officer, known by the name Farooq, was deployed in February 2016 to make contact with Hussain and establish whether he still harboured a desire to fight for ISIS.

Initially he used the SureSpot messaging application to arrange a meeting with Hussain, who used the name 'Abu Jay' and they agreed to meet on February 23 on the terrace at the British Library in Kings Cross at 3pm.

Hussain told the officer about his 'little brother' who had gone to Syria in April, and investigations revealed that he was friends with Muhammed Ahmad, 23, a fellow member of a new gym near Ilford, who used the name Abu Salah Al-Britani.

The Old Bailey heard how he secretly met an undercover officer at the British Library (pictured) and pledged to carry out the terror attacks

Ahmad's Facebook page listed his occupation as 'Soldier at Slave of Allah' and on August 3 2015, his family had received a WhatsApp message to inform them he had been killed while fighting along with a copy of his will and a photograph of him in military fatigues, holding a rocket propelled grenade launcher.

The undercover officer arranged a second meeting with Hussain at the library on March 23 at 1pm, asking Hussain: 'Do you still want to go?'

'Until my last breath,' Hussain told him. Then he added: 'I had a brother who came from Libya, he told me to pop it over here, if this happened he told me to do it over here.

'Even my little brother said pop it. They want the darul ul kuffar [land of disbelief] to get it and they want that. I know a couple of brothers, they already have that mentality.'

At 2.35am on April 15, the day after a third meeting, Hussain sent Farooq a series of messages on SureSpot, which continued into the morning, telling him: 'I'm thinking of doing a big one on these kuffs [non-believers].'

BACKGROUND OF 'SOLDIER OF ALLAH' Hussain, was born in Bangladesh, but brought up in a Muslim family in East London and had gone through a period of time where he smoked and drank alcohol before becoming religious. He had been living in South Drive, Ilford, with his uncle and aunt, who had taken him in at his father's request, before his father's death. Hussain had told them that he was going to a mosque in Wembley to take part in Tablighi Jammat - a missionary group that travels from mosque to mosque - and that he would stay there for around ten days. In fact he travelled with his friend Thunbir Elahi by EasyJet on August 19 from London Gatwick to Bodrum for £85.99 each. Two return flights were booked for a week later through the website On The Beach but the pair were caught by the Turkish authorities and returned to Britain on a British Airways flight from Istanbul. After his arrest, Hussain said that he was kicked out of his guardian’s home because of the "holiday" to Turkey after the police had spoken to them. But he maintained they had only gone to Turkey to enjoy themselves and it was when they were both watching TV that their intentions changed and they wanted to go to the border to help refugees. Hossein Zahir, defending, told the court: "Farooq did his job, he offered the defendant an opportunity which he gleefully took." But he said Hussain had had a trouble upbringing in which he was sent to Britain from Bangladesh when he was eight or nine because his father had significant problems with is health and was heavily in debt. His father died when he was 11 and he had no other family apart from his uncle and aunt, which left him isolated and alone. Advertisement

He said he had an 'older brother' who 'went to pop a istihadi' - a reference to a suicide operation.

'Have u got any more aks [brothers] whos in this, cus I'm thinking to do a big option - make a plan and make a big ops on this kuffs [non-believers]...I haven't mention this to no one I'm jus asking u.'

When the officer asked, 'akhi wat big operation plan?' Hussain sent a series of emoticons, adding YGM! [You get me], then wrote: 'The brother is on it...im planning to get group of aks together and then pop it off in sha allah' adding: 'UK, where else LOL [laughs out loud]' and a smiley face.

The officer told him he needed to 'calm down' but Hussain went on: 'My man noes he [knows how] to make the bombs etc.'

'Akhi lets get this clear so u dnt get confused nor do I, ' Hussain added. 'I wna go to sham [Syria] no natter what!! But before I go i wna set and plan this operation up so these aks [brothers] can pop it off ygm [you get me].'

As they sat together at a fourth meeting at the British Library, at 12.45pm on April 28, they were approached by plain clothes police officers and Hussain was arrested for preparation of terrorist acts.

Commander Dean Haydon of Scotland Yard's SO15 Counter-Terrorism Command said Hussain had made a 'concerted effort' to get to Syria even changing his name in a 'poor attempt to evade the authorities which was always destined to fail.'

Calling himself, 'Jabz' he had previously worked at B Girl Fashions Ltd, near Commercial Road for about a year, but he had been made redundant on August 14 2015.

The radicalised youngster lived at the controversial An Noor Cultural and Community Centre on Church Road in Acton, west London, where he was arrested in a sting operation on 28 April 2016.

Hussain was previously stopped trying to cross the border from Turkey in August 2015, having planned his trip for several months.

Turkish authorities arrested the Bangladeshi and deported him back to the UK, where he was questioned by British police and later released without charge.

Mr Glasgow said: 'Between 21 March 2015 and the 28 August 2015 the defendant made preparations and travelled to Turkey.

'His intention was to travel to Syria and join and fight for Islamic State.

'He was intercepted by Turkish authorities and deported to the United Kingdom.

'Following his return to the United Kingdom on 27 August 2015, he continued to make preparations with the intention of travelling to Syria to join and fight for IS.

The radicalised youngster lived at the controversial An Noor Cultural and Community Centre on Church Road in Acton, west London, where he was arrested on April 28 2016

'In order that his second trip might be more successful than the first, he sought the assistance of others be believed might be able to help him.

'He discussed his plans with someone who contacted him via social media, someone he believed would be able to help him achieve his desire to fight for IS.

'However, little did he realise that the man with whom he met was an undercover police officer and that all their conversations were recorded.

'Those recordings, together with other material seized from the defendant, reveal the extent of his hatred for Western society and his avowed intent to take part in terrorist atrocities.'

'It's to be noted that despite the interception by the Turkish authorities and despite the involvement of the authorities in this now, the defendant had remained committed to travelling to Syria.'

Hussain claimed he wanted to do humanitarian work in Syria, but later admitted two counts of preparation of terrorist acts between March 2015 and April 2016.

The charges only relate to his attempts to travel to Syria to join IS.

ISIS propaganda including bomb manuals, martyr videos, and images 'mocking 9/11' were found on his devices and social media profiles.

His Instagram profile contained 'graphic images of Sharia Law' and a mock image of the Houses of Parliament being blown up.

Hussain, wearing a white shirt and grey tracksuit bottoms, showed no emotion in the dock during the sentencing hearing.

Earlier this year, one of the An Noor Cultural and Community Centre's three founding members Khalif Rashad, 63, and hitman Leslie Cooper, 38, were jailed for 32 years for shooting dead Syrian-born imam Abdul Hadi Arwani, 48.

Rashad and Mr Arwani had both poured cash into the centre and were involved in a legal dispute.

Last month, Rashad was further convicted of possession of explosives after a cache of military-grade explosives and ammunition were found in his garage.

Rashad, who claimed he was approached by MI5 to spy on young Muslims at the centre for signs of radicalisation, insisted he had no idea how the deadly haul got to be there.