“In handing down her sentence, Adamson said despite no one being killed, the offenders had succeeded in ‘creating terror’ because the public was made aware of the plot.”
“And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know, whom Allah knows.” (Qur’an 8:60)
“Sydney brothers jailed over plot to blow up Etihad flight with meat grinder bomb,” Telegraph, December 17, 2019:
Two brothers have been sentenced to a total of 76 years in prison by an Australian court for planning to blow up an Etihad Airways flight from Sydney to Abu Dhabi with a bomb hidden in a meat grinder.
The New South Wales Supreme Court on Tuesday sentenced Khaled Khayat to 40 years in prison with no parole until 2047. His brother, Mahmoud Khayat, was sentenced to 36 years with no possibility of parole until 2044.
The two men had been found guilty of planning two terrorist attacks: the bomb and a chemical gas attack on the flight to Abu Dhabi in July 2017….
Police had said that high-grade explosives used to make the bomb were flown from Turkey as part of a plot “inspired and directed” by the Islamic State.
The improvised device was to be smuggled inside the luggage of a third, unwitting brother.
A fourth brother, who is said to have fought with the Islamic State in Syria, is accused of directing the plot from overseas.
The plotters disapproved of their brother “because he drank, went clubbing, gambled and was gay, which they regarded as bringing shame on the family”, judge Christine Adamson noted.
The plan was aborted at the airport when the plotters decided it was too risky to get through customs after airline staff said their bags were overweight.
In handing down her sentence, Adamson said despite no one being killed, the offenders had succeeded in “creating terror” because the public was made aware of the plot.
“The conspiracy to which both offenders were parties plainly envisaged that a large number of people would be killed,” she said.