From the New York Post: One of the Bondi Beach terror attack suspects was “closely connected” to a convicted ISIS terrorist who was busted in 2019 — but was dropped from suspicion after just six months, a bombshell report revealed.
Naveed Akram, 24 — who is in police custody after he and his father, Sajid, 50, allegedly killed 15 people on Sunday during a Hanukkah celebration — had been an associate of Islamic extremist Isaac El Matari, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.
Matari, 26, was a member of an Islamic State cell that had been planning an attack in Australia before being arrested in 2019, and later sentenced to more than seven years behind bars.
Akram had allegedly been in contact with Matari, who was looking for supporters at the time, but the 24-year-old was not a member of the terror cell when it was busted by police, according to the ABC.
The report notes that the Australian Security Intelligence Organization actually had Akram on their watchlist in 2019 for six months, but then determined that he did not pose an immediate threat to the country.
Australian authorities are also looking into a month-long trip Akram and his father made to the Philippines just weeks ago. The area is well known as an “ISIS training hotspot.”
At the scene of the terror attack on Bondi Beach, authorities found two ISIS flags in Akram’s vehicle.
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