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01Sep16

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Australian who recruited Islamist to fight in Syria has been jailed

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An Australian court has sentenced Hamdi Alqudsi to jail for eight years with a non-parole period of six years for recruiting Islamist's in Australia to go and fight for terrorist groups including ISIS in Syria. This was despite no intentions of his own to fight in Syria.

"The was no indication that he was willing to sacrifice his life or his liberty for the cause," Justice Christine Adamson said.

"The offender's reasons for offending was at least in part that he understood it to be his religious duty to help send men to Syria to fight."

Alqudsi was found guilty of seven counts of helping people move to Syria for terrorist activity by a jury of seven.

The jury heard phone calls and were read transcripts of conversations between Alqudsi and Mohammed Ali Baryalei, Australia's top ISIS member.

Justice Adamson acknowledged that although Alqudsi did not recruit the terrorists, he took on a "significant role" in helping them get to Syria and described himself in one conversation as being "the head of everything".

"He was the centre of a wheel in which the seven men and Baryalei were the spokes."

[Source: By Paul Antonopoulos, Al-Masdar Al-'Arabi, Tel Aviv, 01Sep16]

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