Melbourne Jihadi Nabil Abbas killed while fighting Islamic terrorists in Middle East
A MELBOURNE jihadi has been killed while fighting alongside Islamic terrorists in the Middle East.
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A MELBOURNE jihadi has been killed while fighting alongside Islamic terrorists in the Middle East.
Nabil Abbas was quizzed by Australian Border Force officials in June 2015 but allowed to continue on to Malaysia on an Australian passport after he produced a return ticket.
But Abbas, who would now be 32, was killed after joining Islamic State extremists seeking to establish a caliphate in the Middle East.
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His death was revealed this week during the terrorist trial of three men — his cousin Hamza Abbas, Abdullah Chaarani and Ahmed Mohamed — who are accused of making preparations for a CBD terrorist attack over the Christmas period in 2016.
Both Mr Mohamed and Mr Chaarani were prevented from leaving Australia by ABF authorities about the time Nabil Abbas left.
Prosecutor Nick Papas QC told the trial the men intended to die as martyrs overseas and set about preparing a local terrorist attack when their travel was thwarted.
“There’s Nabil Abbas’s travel. He, having travelled overseas … never came back, and was later heard to be discussed by a number of them, at least one of them describing how — in glowing terms how he died,” Mr Papas said.
“Because martyrdom … permits a passage to paradise, which is a good place to be. It has certain rewards.”
The court heard Mr Chaarani had a photograph of Nabil Abbas’s corpse and praised the manner in which he died.
“Let the Kuffar keep on raging and bro, inshallah (Allah willing), we’ll meet again bro, inshallah, we’ll follow him in the same path bro. One day, inshallah, we will follow him same path,” Mr Chaarani was allegedly secretly recorded saying.
“This is the martyrdom, you know. May Allah grant us the same, you know, reward.”
The three accused men allegedly bought bomb-making material, large hunting knives and cased out areas around St Paul’s Cathedral around Christmas 2016.
Each of the three accused has pleaded not guilty to planning a terrorist attack. The trial, which is expected to go for at least 10 weeks, continues before Justice Christopher Beale.