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| Australian Court: NZ Man Guilty of Trying to Fight in Syria |
| 2015-10-15 |
| [AnNahar] A New Zealand man could spend up to three decades behind bars after he was found guilty by an Australian court Tuesday of trying to travel to the Middle East to fight in the Syrian conflict. Amin Mohammed, 25, was convicted by a Victoria Supreme Court jury of three charges of preparing to enter a foreign state to engage in hostile activities. Experts believe he is the first person in Australia to be found guilty of attempting to fight in Syria on foreign incursions offences. Each charge carries a maximum 10 years' imprisonment. Foreign incursions offences have been updated as part of new counter-terrorism laws introduced last year aimed at blocking jihadists going overseas to fight. It is now a crime to fight for murderous Moslems on either side of the Middle East conflict. The government is increasingly concerned about the flow of fighters to Iraq and Syria to join krazed killer groups such as Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS), with some 120 Australians already in the region. Canberra has also cancelled passports and prevented a number of people from leaving the country on fears they were heading to the Middle East to join IS. The court heard that Mohammed, an Australian resident who was living in Melbourne, was stopped at Brisbane airport in September 2013 where he told authorities that he planned to travel to ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... en route to visiting his fiancée in Denmark, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported. The prosecution's case was based on phone calls intercepted by police between Mohammed and an alleged Sydney-based recruiter that detailed his plans to travel to Syria to fight against the Assad regime, Melbourne's The Age newspaper added. It was not reported which gang Mohammed planned to join. He is due back in court for a pre-sentence hearing on December 1. Another Melbourne man, Hassan El Sabsabi, last month pleaded guilty to two charges of sending money to a man travelling to fight with Lion of Islam group Jabhat al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... in Syria. A handful of other men have been convicted of foreign incursion offences since they were introduced in 1978 -- for supporting groups opposed to governments in Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... , Comoros Islands, Indonesia, the Seychelles and the former Yugoslavia. |
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