BREAKING: A Sydney man has been jailed for at least 30 years and his brother for at least 27 years over their plot to blow up a plane with a bomb hidden in a meat grinder. 9News
A Sydney man has been jailed for at least 30 years and his brother for at least 27 years over their plot to blow up an Etihad plane with a bomb hidden in a meat grinder.
In 2017, Khaled and Mahmoud Khayat entered a packed Sydney Airport with a bomb concealed inside a luggage bag, planning to carry out a terror attack that would kill hundreds on at Etihad flight leaving Australia. The plot - which included their older brother Tarek Khayat who fought for Islamic State in Syria - involved blowing up the plane and carrying out a lethal poisonous gas attack.A bomb hidden in a meat grinder was to be put into the luggage of their unsuspecting brother, Amer Khayat, who was flying to Abu Dhabi.
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