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Terrorists who planned to blow up Federation Square killing thousands of people in a Christmas Day massacre smirk before they are jailed
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Terrorists who planned to blow up Melbourne's
...Melbourne is a hotbed of jihadis and crime — the Minneapolis of Australia, only with a less homogenous population of miscreants except in the most important characteristic.
Federation Square in a Christmas Day massacre have been tossed in the calaboose.
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
Ahmed Mohammed, 27, Abdullah Chaarani, 29, and Hamza Abbas, 24, were found guilty of terror charges for plotting attacks through the central city in 2016.

The group had bought machetes, carried out reconnaissance in the Melbourne CBD and built practice bombs while conspiring to develop the potentially deadly plan.

They were arrested and taken into custody three days before Christmas.

The trio were seen smirking as they made their way into the Supreme Court of Victoria for sentencing on Friday.

Mohammed and Chaarani were sentenced to 28 years behind bars, while Abbas must serve 16 years.

A fourth man, Hamza Abbas' brother Ibrahim Abbas, is already serving up to 24 years after pleading guilty to the plot last year.

During sentencing Justice Christopher Beale described the plot as an 'assault on the fundamental values of our society'.

'Each of you, to a greater or lesser degree, accessed materials on the internet supportive of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 and violent jihad.'

Their views became so warped they had come to believe the mass slaughter of innocent civilians would be a 'glorious act, pleasing to Allah', he said.

'The stupidity of that belief was matched only by its malevolence.'

The men have reasonable prospects of rehabilitation, he said.
Men who smirk during their sentencing hearing are not ready to be rehabilitated.
During a hearing last month the men claimed they had turned their backs on ISIS since they were arrested in 2016, the ABC reported.

'I renounce violent jihad. I renounce ISIS. I renounce murderous Moslem ideology,' Chaarani told the court.
Then they smirked, which makes this taqqiya.
Chaarani and Mohammed were already convicted of terrorism charges and were serving 22 year sentences for burning down a mosque in Melbourne's north weeks before the planned Christmas Day attack.
That’s the Imam Ali Islamic Center, serving the Shiite community. No one was injured. Mohammed and Hatim Moukhaiber both denied involvement. Chaarani admitted his role, but argued he had been part of an act of protest, advocacy or dissent, not terrorism.

Posted by: Fred 2019-11-30
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