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Pictured: Bulldogs fan who 'planned to blow up 500 passengers on Sydney flight' arrested in terror raids after tip-off from foreign spy agencies - as it's revealed his other son 'mixes' with pilots
[DailyMail] More on this report from a few days ago.- Four Lebanese-Australian men were arrested in dramatic raids in Sydney on Saturday afternoon
- They have been named in reports as fathers and sons Khaled and Mahmoud Khayat and Khaled and Abdul Merhi
- They are accused of plotting to bring down a plane using a homemade bomb
- Target 'was Etihad flight to Abu Dhabi with 500 passengers and crew on board'
- The alleged plot is believed to involve crude device disguised as a meat grinder
- Foreign intelligence intercepted communication from Syria, prompting raids
- Khaled Khayat's brother is believed to be a senior Islamic State figure while the other two men are related to Ahmed Merhi, who travelled to Syria in 2014 to fight for the jihadist group
- Khayat's other son studied aviation management and mixes with pilots and airline workers
Posted by: trailing wife 2017-08-01 |
