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| Sydney woman's bomb plot was for love |
| 2006-03-26 |
| A WOMAN allegedly conspired to bomb a Sydney location using deadly explosives, a Sydney court has heard. Jill Courtney, 26, a Muslim convert, was arrested in a joint NSW and Australian Federal Police counter-terrorist operation on Friday. She appeared in Parramatta Local Court yesterday charged with conspiracy to murder and conspiring to plant explosives in or near a building, vehicle or public place. The court was told both conspiracies are alleged to have occurred between July last year and last Friday. Police will allege Courtney had a relationship with convicted killer Hussan Kalache and agreed to the bomb plot at his request. Kalache allegedly told Courtney he was angry over the Cronulla riots and if she carried out her mission to bomb a public place in Sydney, he would marry her. No target had been selected for the attack and no explosives had been obtained. Kalache is serving a 22-year sentence for the shooting murder of a rival drug dealer in 2002. It is understood Courtney first met him during a jail visit and has been a regular visitor since. Police will also allege Courtney, who faces court tomorrow, had accessed material on how to carry out the attack. Her lawyer, Adam Houda, told the court his client needed psychiatric treatment and did not apply for bail. He asked the court to ensure she was assessed by a psychiatrist while in custody. Courtney was charged on Friday night after Federal and State Police swooped on two properties at Casula and Hoxton Park, in Sydney's south-west. A neighbour, Elaine Smith, 71, said she was shocked when dozens of police and forensic officers descended on the sleepy Casula estate. "It was incredible – there were just so many of them I thought it might have been a drug raid," she said. Ms Smith said Ms Courtney lived with her father, John, whom she described as "a lovely man". She said she often saw Ms Courtney coming and going, sometimes dressed in traditional Muslim outfits and sometimes in Western clothes. "I hadn't seen her for about two months, until police came to take her away (on Friday). "When they brought her back a few hours later, I thought all of it had been a misunderstanding. "But then they took away boxes and computers and I heard someone say they would check her bed." It is the first major arrest by counter-terrorist police since 18 men were arrested in simultaneous raids in Sydney and Melbourne in November. |
| Posted by:Oztrailan |
| #2 It was for something, all right - but not love. Here's a clue, loser: If you have so little respect and regard for yourself that you have to take up with a clown like this to feel "loved," just kill yourself and leave everyone else out of it. Wotta useless, pathetic maroon. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-03-26 12:43 |
| #1 Damn, guess the unholy nuptials are off! Sure hope I can return the electric skillet.... Is is just me, or are more and more of these "converts" keeping their names instead of changing them to things like Fatima al-Boomeri? They've long recruited in prisons, are they going to psych wards now, too? |
| Posted by: Desert Blondie 2006-03-26 07:31 |