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| Accused terror promoter freed on bail in Australia |
| 2011-07-07 |
| A former Qantas cabin cleaner facing a retrial over a do-it-yourself jihad manual was released on bail in Australia on Thursday, free for the first time in almost three years. Lebanese-born Belal Khazaal was bailed out on strict conditions ahead of his November retrial for knowingly making a document connected with assistance in a terrorist act - a charge on which he was convicted in September 2008. A Supreme Court jury found Khazaal guilty of producing a 110-page manual called "Provisions of the Rules of Jihad: Short Judicial Rulings and Organisational Instructions for Fighters and Mujahideen Against Infidels". He was originally sentenced to 12 years, of which he had to serve at least nine. But his conviction was quashed by an appeals court last month - the reasons for which were suppressed - and a retrial ordered. |
| Posted by:ryuge |