MOSCOW (Sputnik) — According to the ABC broadcaster, Omar Al-Kutobi, 25, and Mohammad Kiad, 27, arrested in February 2015, initially intended to bomb a Shia prayer hall in Sydney, though this plan was changed for plotting knife or machete attacks against civilians.
"From the seized material and as a consequence of other information received by the authorities during the investigation, a comprehensive chronology of events charting the offenders' radicalisation and the formation of their conspiracy to commit a terrorist act, or acts, can be set out," Supreme Court Judge Peter Garling told the court as quoted by the broadcaster.
According to the broadcaster, the terrorist plotters will spend 20 years in prison with a non-parole period of 15 years.
Daesh, which occupies vast tracts of Iraq and Syria and is outlawed in many countries including Russia, has gained much notoriety for conducting suicide bombings and other attacks worldwide and recruiting young people via social media.
