A suspected terrorist who shot and wounded an Australian policeman is a former actor who appeared in the television soap opera Home and Away. Omar Baladjam, 28, was charged with attempted murder the day after 17 alleged militants were arrested in Melbourne and Sydney. More than 400 police officers were deployed in the operation which it is claimed foiled at least one serious attack. As Baladjam was approached outside a suburban mosque, he allegedly fired several shots, wounding one officer in the hand before being shot in the neck. At a special bedside court hearing in Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, he was charged with 13 offences, including planning a terrorist act and the attempted murder of two police officers. He is due to appear in court tomorrow.Baladjam played a graffiti artist in an episode of Home and Away in 1998. A year earlier, he appeared in a crime drama as a ram raider who killed two policemen. He then became a spray painter. His former theatrical agent, Di Kounnas, told the Sydney Morning Herald she was "pretty shocked" at Baladjam's alleged involvement in the plot, which is believed to have targeted landmarks in Sydney and Melbourne.