Student who downloaded Al Qaeda magazine 'didn't know what it would contain' Asked what he had expected its articles to be about, he replied: 'To be honest, I didn't really know. I just wanted information on their viewpoints, Jihad, and their interpretation of Islam. I just wanted to know what they have to say for themselves. He added he opened the file once but only looked at the front cover and one article inside before copying it to a CD and then deleting the original. "It's been my habit to just have things, literature, like that," he said. It doesn't necessarily mean that I've read every single book that I own. Ertarkan claimed he used a 'proxy server', and then used specialist software to securely wipe the file from the computer, in order to stop his sister coming across records of the websites he had visited. "I wouldn't have wanted her to be able to look at my internet browsing," he said. Police forced entry to the family home he shares with his parents and sister in Edmonton, north London, in the early hours of January 26 last year. Under his bed, officers found a CD containing a digital copy of issue one of Inspire, the official English-language magazine of Al-Qaeda, published in July 2010. Further checks revealed the file, which included a guide on how to make pipe bombs, had been downloaded on a computer in his sister's bedroom on December 12, 2010, when she had been on holiday in Turkey. Ertarkan, of Edmonton, north London, denies possessing a record of information likely to be useful to a terrorist.