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| Sydney man on terror charge |
| 2004-04-15 |
| A 21-year-old Sydney man has been charged with being trained by a terrorist organisation, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said tonight. The university student from Glenwood was arrested by federal agents in Sydney this morning. In a statement, AFP commissioner Mick Keelty said the man had faced Sydney’s Central Local Court and been refused bail. He has been remanded to reappear in court on May 5. The man, a medical student, reportedly trained in Pakistan with the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Toiba, banned by the government six months ago. The court reportedly heard that after his initial training, the man decided not to go ahead with his preparations for a jihad in Kashmir. Channel Nine said the man moved to Australia from Pakistan in 1998 and attended two Sydney high schools before enrolling in medicine at the University of New South Wales. |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #1 The man, a medical student, reportedly trained in Pakistan with the terrorist group His choice was either to do that or to work on his medical studies. . |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-04-15 8:13:21 AM |