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He sent a text on April 16, “I want to learn how to make a bomb”.
The Islamic State flag appeared in his messaging avatar, Ms Choi said.
The Hallam teen was handed a 10-year jail sentence in the Victorian Supreme Court in September 2016 and must serve at least seven and a half before he is eligible for parole.
Police said he was motivated by an extremist ideology and had expressed support for terrorist organisations, particularly Islamic State, which adopt a radical interpretation of Islam.
PLOT: TARGET PARRAMATTA WESTFIELDJan-Feb. 2016
One of two accused terror plotters who allegedly planned to carry out a terror attack at Parramatta Westfield was found with a hunting knife and a Shahada flag in her handbag as well as instructions for making a bomb detonator. The teenager laughed and cheered as a Sydney court heard evidence of her “favourite” beheading video.
PLOT: BOMB MELBOURNE’S MOTHER’S DAY CLASSIC EVENT May 2015
A teen terrorist who planned to detonate bombs at a Mother’s Day event in Melbourne described all non-Muslims as cockroaches.
Police raided the teen’s home on May 8 after he began messaging radicals overseas that he would become a martyr.
Counter-terrorism officers found IS propaganda material, pressure cookers, pipe bombs, shrapnel and homemade explosive that the teen now admits were to be used in a bombing.
“I thought that a lot of (Australian) people were not innocent because they were supporters of the killing of Muslims around the world,” the teen allegedly said.
PLOT: KILL POLICE AT ANZAC DAY CEREMONIESApril 2015
Aspiring terrorists allegedly planned to run over a police officer, kill him with a knife and seize his gun before going on a shooting rampage during Anzac Day centenary celebrations in an attack foiled by a police operation.
The group behind the alleged plot had reportedly anticipated the attack on Melbourne streets would end in their own deaths.
Australian police arrested five teenagers in Melbourne over their alleged plans to target police uncovering knives and other weapons in their raids.
ALLEGED PLOT: TO BEHEAD INNOCENT PEOPLEFebruary 2015
Two Sydney friends were arrested just hours before they planned to carry out a terror attack.
Omar al-Kutobi, 24, and Mohammad Kiad, 25 were accused of planning to carry out an attack, amid suspicions they were plotting a public beheading.
A machete, a hunting knife and a flag associated with Islamic State were among items seized in the raids on their Fairfield home, along with a video of Al-Kutobi holding knives and vowing to stab white people in the kidneys and necks “today” with a note declaring he and Kiad “are here to cut your head”.
Less than a week before they were due to face trial, the pair pleaded guilty in the NSW Supreme Court to one count each of “to act in preparation/planning for terrorist act” .
PLOT: TARGET GOVERNMENT BUILDINGSDecember 2014-March 2016
A Sydney teenager accused of plotting an “imminent” terrorist shooting in Sydney had allegedly scoped out the Parramatta court complex, Garden Island Navy Base and the Victoria Barracks before he was arrested as part of Operation Appleby.
The original plot involved alleged planning of an attack on a random member of the public. Police said the second plot “may have involved an attack on a government building, whether that be AFP or police”.
PLOT: KIDNAP INNOCENT PEOPLE IN SYDNEY & BRISBANE THEN BEHEAD THEM ON CAMERASeptember 2014
An accused terror plotter was within days of launching a terror attack on Australian soil, embarking on a frenzied, deadly shopping spree to load up on weapons, before he was arrested, police alleged.
Police said the man planned to launch a terror attack on home soil.
Government officials revealed that the plan was to kidnap random members of the public, behead them on camera and then release the video of the killings.
The man was charged with transporting a gun and stockpiling machetes, knives and balaclavas, military clothing and a firearm in preparation for a terrorist act.
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