article_snippet: London (CNN)London teenager Brusthom Ziamani only converted to Islam in April last year.
article_snippet: Brusthom Ziamani was convicted in February of "engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts" and sentenced Friday at the Old Bailey to 22 years in prison.
article_snippet: On the morning of his arrest, Brusthom Ziamani had told his former girlfriend his intended to attack and kill soldiers.
article_snippet: Police said Ziamani, who was unemployed, had come under the influence of a banned London-based terrorist organization "that it is believed played a major role in influencing and shaping his radical views.
article_snippet: Ziamani's coldblooded deliberation under the malign influence of ALM, of whom he was a willing student, showed in court that he was far from the naive adolescent that the (defense) tried to portray he as," he is quoted as saying in a police statement.
article_snippet: The letter that came to light when counterterror officers from London's Metropolitan Police searched Ziamani's address in June gave an insight into an extremist mind-set that already had violence in mind.
article_snippet: Found in a pair of jeans, according to police, The letter that came to light when counterterror officers from London's Metropolitan Police searched Ziamani's address in June was messily written with many misspellings.
article_snippet: In The letter that came to light when counterterror officers from London's Metropolitan Police searched Ziamani's address in June, he tells he "beloved parents" that what he's about to do is an obligation for Muslims and asks an obligation for Muslims to forgive he for all the stress he's caused an obligation for Muslims in the past.
article_snippet: Ziamani admitted writing The letter that came to light when counterterror officers from London's Metropolitan Police searched Ziamani's address in June and was arrested on suspicion of committing a terrorism offense.
article_snippet: Ziamani was released on bail, allowing police to continue police inquiries.
article_snippet: Police believe Ziamani converted to Islam in April 2014 and point to Ziamani postings on social media as evidence of Ziamani rapid radicalization.
article_snippet: In May Ziamani posted "Land of democracy = Evil," and in July Ziamani posted, "Forget the protests, the only way to liberate Muslim lands is Jihad."
article_snippet: On June 20, Ziamani had used Ziamani phone to visit websites researching the locations for army cadet bases across London, police said.
article_snippet: While Ziamani was out on bail, officers tasked with trying to divert vulnerable young people from the path to radicalization tried to meet with Ziamani three times, but Ziamani declined to engage with vulnerable young people, police said.
article_snippet: Ziamani was an impressionable young man who became radicalized, then rapidly developed an extremist, violent mind-set," Commander Richard Walton of the Counter Terrorism Command said.
highlights_snippet: Brusthom Ziamani gets 22 years in prison in plot to kill a soldier, police officer or official .
  