Ali was sentenced to 10 years in prison for planning a terrorist attack (map of the Australian Associated Press)
A man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for planning a terrorist attack in Melbourne's Federal Plaza (Melbourne's Federation Square) three years ago.
Police foiled the plan after months of covert operations and in November 2017 named Ali Khalif Shire Ali (Ali Khalif Shire Ali) arrest, a 23-year-old man who admitted a accusation. last May to prepare for a terrorist attack
The man is the younger brother of another terrorist Hassan Khalif Shire Ali (Hassan Khalif Shire Ali). Hassan stabbed three men in the middle of melbourne in november 2018 when he lit a pickup truck with a gas tank Bourke Street the centre of melbourne, Sisto Malaspina death. the owner of the famous Pellegrini's Espresso Bar cafe
Ali planned to watch fireworks across the New Year's Eve in Federal Square shoot .( ABC)
court learned that Ali had planned to use a truck for a terrorist attack on a New Year's Eve, but his driver's license had been revoked at the time. Before deciding to buy automatic weapons, he also considered carrying out knife attacks and manufacturing bomb.
According to the Supreme Court's judge John Champion, Ali was sentenced to seven and a half years without parole for planning terrorist attacks to achieve his "distorted religious and political objectives ". He described the scheme as "a casual and despicable act ".
judge said he spent hours every night watching jihadist violence jihadists in the months prior to Ali's arrest, but he "looked normal on the surface ".
court learned that Ali was "intent on revenge" for what had happened to Muslim around the world and wanted to kill as many people as possible.
court was informed that in March 2017, Ali tried to buy a AK-47 assault from guns suppliers who were actually undercover under the Australian Federal Police. Ali, along with undercover police, went to Melbourne's Federal Square for a reconnaissance mission and revealed his plans to shoot the crowd and take hostages.
court learned that Ali had told the police that if he saw it in the crowd Muslim, he would not shoot .judge them and, in sentencing, had also mentioned that Ali had told the police that he would not address non- Muslim women with children shoot. but that Ali had allegedly told undercover police that "if non-women did not have children, he would choose to shoot .".
Ali had planned to record two videos explaining his behavior: one for the Australian community and the other for the Muslim community, about what happened to Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia Muslim.
He told the undercover cop ," I want them to wake up.
Ali's brother, Hassan, also carried out a terrorist attack in Melbourne, causing one person death (AUSA)
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court learned that Ali obtained a mujahideen's note from base ", which described in detail "how to make bomb ". in the kitchen with your mothe
judge said that in the months prior to his arrest, Ali, speaking to others in a chat group, had mentioned his fear that the Muslim killed in the street would become legal and Muslim would be imprisoned in a concentration camp.
judge thought ali was truly repentant and accepted his condemnation of ISIS last year's guilty hearings.
