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| Brother of Bourke St attacker pleads guilty to terrorism charge over Federation Square Melbourne gun plot | |||
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| [ABC.NET.AU] The brother of the killer who stabbed cafe owner Sisto Malaspina on Melbourne's Bourke Street has admitted to trying to buy a gun to prepare for a terrorist attack. Ali Khalif Shire Ali,
The court heard the attack was planned to take place in Federation Square in late 2017 to "advance the cause of Islam through violence". Ali was arrested at his home in Werribee during a series of raids by ASIO and other agencies in November 2017. His case was due to go to trial in front of a jury until he pleaded guilty on Wednesday.
Suppression orders have previously prevented reporting that Ali was the brother of Hassan Khalif Shire Ali,
Hassan Khalif Shire Ali killed 74-year-old Mr Malaspina, who was well known in Melbourne as a co-owner of the iconic Pellegrini's Espresso Bar, and injured others in the Bourke St attack in November last year. PERSON OF INTEREST At the time of Ali Khalif Shire Ali's arrest, police said they believed he was trying to get an automatic rifle to "shoot and kill as many people as he could" around Federation Square, in Melbourne's CBD during New Year's Eve celebrations. Federation Square is one of the most popular spots in Melbourne to bring in the new year. He had been monitored by police, who said at the time that they made the arrest because he had been having face-to-face meetings about getting a gun. But police stressed at the time that the man, who was described as being a "high person of interest", never actually managed to obtain a gun. Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Shane Patton said at the time of the arrest, the result of the plot could have been catastrophic. "This is a person who's expressed an intention to try and kill as many people as he could through shooting them in the Federation Square area on New Year's Eve. Horrendous," he said. "If this attack were to have gone ahead, it would have been absolutely catastrophic, but the point is it was stopped." Police also said at the time that Ali Khalif Shire Ali had accessed documents produced by Al Qaeda, including a "guidebook" on how to commit a terrorist act and how to use firearms. | |||
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| One dead after Melbourne knife attack being treated as terrorism - ISIS claims actions of known wolf | ||
| 2018-11-09 | ||
| [news.com.cau} MELBOURNE TERROR ATTACK VICTIMS - A man in his 60s died at the scene, while two other victims are in hospital after being stabbed in the upper body by a man shot dead by police WHEN - Police responded to reports of a vehicle on fire in Melbourne's CBD about 4.10pm on Friday WHERE - The utility was found alight on the corner of Bourke and Swanston streets, a busy shopping area in the heart of the city WHAT - Officers were confronted by a man brandishing a knife and making threats. Passers-by told them three members of the public had been stabbed - An officer shot the man who was taken to Royal Melbourne Hospital under police guard, where he later died. He has been identified as someone known to police and who came to Australia from Somalia in the 1990s RESPONSE - Streets were cordoned off and people are asked to avoid the area until at least 8am on Saturday - The bomb response unit attended to conduct safety checks on the vehicle
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| More about Somali-Australian wannabe jihadi Ali Ali | ||
| 2017-11-30 | ||
You have the right to remain silent... for allegedly plotting an ISIS-inspired New Year's Eve attack. Ali Khalif Shire Ali
Ali, 20, was reportedly targeted by ASIO because of his links to a radicalised 15-year-old boy who killed Curtis Cheng. He was well-connected to Australian jihadist circles including multiple other terror suspects and bad boy preacher Junaid Thorne. Ali was also friends with Farhad Jabar, 15, who rubbed out NSW police accountant Curtis Cheng outside the police centre in Parramatta in 2015. He once boasted to a group of Islamic gunnies about how he had refused to speak to ASIO agents who offered him money for information about his links to Jabar. Ali claimed agents offered him $200 for every tip he gave them about bad boy activity in his community, but he refused to dob in Moslems because it was 'haram'. 'I know their tricks and whatever you say to them they will use as evidence against you,' Ali said. 'They start to get to the real questions, like who are your friends with, what do you think about ISIS, what are your thoughts about those groups. | ||
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