Five guilty in Sydney terrorism trial
5 men wanted to pursue peaceful inner struggle for self improvement…
Five Sydney men have been found guilty of conspiring to do acts to prepare a terrorist act.
After more than a month of deliberations, the jury has delivered its verdict today in the mammoth trial. The trial, which started last November, had lasted more than 170 sitting days and was held in a specially designed court room in Parramatta.
The prosecution had alleged the five men, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had conspired with four other men.
Some of them had obtained chemicals for explosives, registered firearms and ammunition.
The trial heard evidence from many hours of intercepted conversations and surveillance of the men over a 16-month period, which ended with their arrest in November 2005.
During searches in some homes, police also found bomb-making instructions and extremist literature, which allegedly supported indiscriminate killing, mass murder and martyrdom in pursuit of violent jihad.
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