“In handing down her sentence, Adamson said despite no one being killed, the offenders had succeeded in ‘creating terror’ because the public was made aware of the plot.”
“And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know, whom Allah knows.” (Qur’an 8:60)
“Sydney brothers jailed over plot to blow up Etihad flight with meat grinder bomb,” Telegraph, December 17, 2019:
Two brothers have been sentenced to a total of 76 years in prison by an Australian court for planning to blow up an Etihad Airways flight from Sydney to Abu Dhabi with a bomb hidden in a meat grinder.
The New South Wales Supreme Court on Tuesday sentenced Khaled Khayat to 40 years in prison with no parole until 2047. His brother, Mahmoud Khayat, was sentenced to 36 years with no possibility of parole until 2044.
The two men had been found guilty of planning two terrorist attacks: the bomb and a chemical gas attack on the flight to Abu Dhabi in July 2017….
Police had said that high-grade explosives used to make the bomb were flown from Turkey as part of a plot “inspired and directed” by the Islamic State.
The improvised device was to be smuggled inside the luggage of a third, unwitting brother.
A fourth brother, who is said to have fought with the Islamic State in Syria, is accused of directing the plot from overseas.
The plotters disapproved of their brother “because he drank, went clubbing, gambled and was gay, which they regarded as bringing shame on the family”, judge Christine Adamson noted.
The plan was aborted at the airport when the plotters decided it was too risky to get through customs after airline staff said their bags were overweight.
In handing down her sentence, Adamson said despite no one being killed, the offenders had succeeded in “creating terror” because the public was made aware of the plot.
“The conspiracy to which both offenders were parties plainly envisaged that a large number of people would be killed,” she said.
Michael Copeland says
High grade explosives were flown from Turkey.
In hand baggage?
mortimer says
These jihadists need to be deprogrammed but likely they will not be. Australia will not do it, but they should consider it and look into it. The process of deprogramming is rather straightforward (but expert and detailed): namely, to convince Muslims that the Koran is of human origin. Once Muslims see the Koran is a ‘man-made’ document, they will leave Islam instantly.
James Lincoln says
mortimer,
I have great respect for your knowledge of Islam.
Please provide an evidence-based peer-reviewed reference regarding the process of deprogramming…
keith says
Deprogramming should be carried out in public. Via a lead injection between the eyes.
The recipient should be forcibly converted to Christianity, given the Christian last rights and then a Jewish burial.
All on live TV. No 72 virgins for you!
gravenimage says
Christians do not forcibly convert people–are you confusing civilized people with Muslims?
keith says
You could always start a new trend! Special cases etc!
gravenimage says
Why would we want to act like Muslim thugs? People convert to Christianity out of love for its teachings–not as punishment.
Jeffrey Sams says
Keith, I agree with what you’re saying about de-programming, via lead injection, but I wouldn’t sully the process with Christianity, or Judaism. However, I believe that it could be well-served by a liberal use of swine entrails.
gravenimage says
Mortimer keeps saying how easy “deprogramming” Muslims is–yet oddly cannot point to anyone having done it.
Lion Heart says
Mortimer : This case of those terrorists brothers PROVES more and more which is : NEVER EVER trust any Muslim no matter how nice they may be ! because at the end of the day , they will show their real evil Islamic face !! and those two brothers should be executed ! That’s the BEST solution to deal with Islamic terrorists! and I am a Canadian Christian guy originally from Iraq and we know how evil Islam is more than any other nation in the world as we have been suffering from Islam since its rise especially after the fall of Saddam’s bloody regime. Once again , I will repeat the proverb said by our Christian ancestors in Iraq hundreds of years ago: “ If a Muslim is a piece of gold, don’t put it in your pocket otherwise it will rip through “ which means that Muslims would stab non-Muslims especially the Christians in the back when they have the chance to do it especially when they take Islam seriously and we saw their betrayal to Iraqi Christians after 2003 especially in Baghdad and Mosul .
keya says
Muslims don’t have the brain cells to invent a meat grinder. but they have such innovative ideas about how to kill a kafir by using the karir’s inventions
Battle says
9/11 Never Forget
Francis DeFranco says
Lockerbie atrocity anniversary today 12/21/88
270 innocents mass murdered on winter solstice by Kaddafi’s goons
Mecca delenda est
tim gallagher says
I was impressed by these sentences. 40 years and 36 years is impressive and just. It was on the TV news a few days ago here in Australia. The defence lawyer for the two brothers said a few words outside court, saying they would be appealing the severity of the sentences. He said something about how sad it is that they won’t be seeing their children much while they grow up, or some such crap. I know that defence lawyers just have a job to do, and I suspect they probably have to defend some of the scum they represent through gritted teeth, but I thought it pretty pathetic. The defence lawyer seemed to speak in a very half hearted manner. If you are facing very long prison sentences I guess you’re bound to appeal. There’d be nothing else to spend time on. I hope the sentences do stand and I expect that they will.
gravenimage says
Australia: Muslims sentenced for plot to commit jihad massacre on airplane with meat grinder bomb
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At least they have gotten fairly stiff sentences. Bravo, Australia!
underbed cat says
Bravo Austrailia please inform our leader of your intelligence, our deep state is at work on delusion, fantasy, accommodating handing off their fibs as facts which to me is collusion. Training our known enemy will return to finish us off…after they declared war before 2000.