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Australian-Lebanese dual national out on bail in Sydney plane bomb plot
[IsraelTimes] Lebanese authorities accuse Amer Khayyat of planning to blow up Etihad flight from UAE to Australia; Khayyat released on bail after being held in detention since 2017.

The lawyer of an Australian-Lebanese dual citizen on trial for an alleged plot to bring down a passenger plane says her client has been ordered released on bail by a Lebanese military court.

Joceline Adib al-Rai, lawyer of Amer Khayyat,
...the only one of the family to spell the name with two Ys, he was supposed to be the innocent dupe of his loving, ISIS-connected brothers. So it is unclear why he’s been held in Lebanon for two years...
said Saturday the court’s decision was delivered a day earlier. Prosecutors can appeal.

Lebanese authorities have held Khayyat in detention since 2017. They have accused him of planning to blow up an Emirati airline flight that was supposed to travel from Sydney to the United Arab Emirates.

Khayyat has rejected the charges.

Two of Khayyat’s brothers are on trial in Australia for plotting to blow up the plane with bombs hidden inside a Barbie doll and meat grinder.
That would be Khaled and Mahmoud Khayat. The loving Khayat brothers prepared the bomb at the behest of third brother Tarek Khayat, a senior ISIS emir in Syria.
Australian authorities say Amer Khayyat had no knowledge of his brothers’ plot.
What was he arrested for, then?
Australian police alleged last year as part of the plans, a senior 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 commander directed a group of Australian men to build a bomb destined for an Etihad Airways flight out of Sydney.

The improvised bomb was due to be smuggled onto the July 15 flight, but the attempt was aborted before they reached security.

Police said they had also foiled a second alleged plot involving a "chemical dispersion device," designed to release hydrogen sulfide, but this was in the early stages.

The second plan was hatched after the first one failed, police said, and was not necessarily targeted at a plane.

Posted by: trailing wife 2019-05-12
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