Khaled Khayat (above) and Mahmoud Khayat had their first court mention in Parramatta Court on Friday Hydrogen sulphide is highly toxic, and often fatal for people exposed to it. He said police also foiled a second alleged plot involving a 'chemical dispersion device', designed to release hydrogen sulphide, but this was in the early stages. Mr Phelan said police have recovered components of the IED in question. 'With assistance from the ISIL commander, the accused assembled the IED.' 'Components of this IED were sent through international air cargo by the ISIS operatives through to the accused men here in Australia. This advice was coming from a senior member of Islamic State,' he said. 'This individual was receiving information, being inspired and directed, directly from ISIL in Syria. 'One of the two gentlemen charged, the brother we're alleging is a senior member of ISIL in Syria and he indeed introduced another person, who we call the controller, to one of the people that has been charged,' Mr Phelan said. Mr Phelan would not reveal who the Islamic State link was, but said it will be alleged that the men were introduced to him by one of their family members, who is a senior ISIS member in Syria.īut authorities are confident they've now found 'every single component of that IED,' he said. Police are working on the theory that it was called off because the device was too heavy as check-in luggage. 'There is a little bit of conjecture as to why it didn't go ahead. 'With assistance from the ISIL commander, the accused assembled the IED into what we believe was a functioning IED to be placed on that flight,' said Phelan, referring to Islamic State by an alternative acronym. The maximum penalty for the offence is life imprisonment. Khayat, of Lakemba, and another brother Mahmoud Khayat, 32, of Punchbowl, are each charged with two counts of acting in preparation for, or planning, a terrorist act. ‘We will be alleging the person who was to carry the IED on the plane had no idea they were going to be carrying an IED,’ he said. Mr Phelan said detectives believe the brother had no idea about the bomb inside his bag.
Police said Khaled Khayat, 49, took the luggage home with him from Sydney Airport, while his brother boarded the flight. It may have been because the bag containing the bomb, concealed inside a meat mincer, was too heavy, AFP Deputy Commissioner Michael Phelan told reporters on Friday.ĭaily Mail Australia understands the flight in question was EY 451, which departed Sydney Airport's international terminal shortly after 3pm on July 15. Police said the plot – to bring an improvised explosive device aboard an Etihad Airways flight to Abu Dhabi – was aborted at the last minute.
The alleged ringleader of a terror plot to bring down a plane departing Sydney for the Middle East planned to send his unsuspecting brother to his death, it has been revealed.
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