I’ve got a couple of update reports from Australia (thanks to reader B.L) on the story we posted two days ago, here. The suspected Somali/Lebanese terrorists are now going before a magistrate. Wissam Mahmoud Fattal shouted that he was not a terrorist and refused to stand in court. Here is the first update from the Sydney Morning Herald.
One of the Melbourne men charged with preparing a terrorist act directed an angry outburst at the magistrate hearing his case this morning.
Wissam Mahmoud Fattal, 33, told the Melbourne Magistrates Court he was not a terrorist and accused Australian troops of killing innocent people overseas.
“You call me a terrorist but I’ve never killed anyone in my life,” Fattal told magistrate Peter Reardon.
Fattal, who was already in custody on unrelated matters and is charged with conspiring to prepare a terrorist act, refused to stand before Mr Reardon, saying it was against his religious beliefs. But the magistrate did not accept the principle that it was a religious act.
For more details about the terror plot bust and its aftermath, here are a couple more articles. See here and here.