Khaled Khayat said when he saw children at the airport he thought, 'Don't do it, don't be stupid, don't do it' and removed the bomb from the baggage. 9News
A Sydney man who claimed he was trying to prevent a terrorist attack has been found guilty of plotting to blow up an Etihad plane with a bomb hidden in a meat grinder.
Khaled Khayat, 51, had pleaded not guilty to conspiring to preparing or planning a terrorist act between mid-January and late-July 2017. But a NSW Supreme Court jury today found him guilty of the charge which involved the Etihad bomb plot and another plan to carry out a lethal poisonous gas attack on people in a confined space.The jury is still deliberating on the same charge for Khayat's 34-year-old brother Mahmoud.
Prosecutor Lincoln Crowley QC alleged the bomb was in a meat grinder to be put into the luggage of a passenger who was flying out of Sydney on the Etihad flight.He said when he saw children at the airport he thought, "Don't do it, don't be stupid, don't do it" and removed the bomb from the baggage.
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