Paul Maley
The Australian
Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Cops’ legal battle to keep terrorists locked up
Counter-terrorism police are preparing to use controversial new powers, including continued detention orders, to prevent the release of a record number of convicted terrorists including Australias most dangerous extremist, Abdul Nacer Benbrika. → Read More
Dictators play the long game
Before he left for North Korea to try and persuade Kim Il-sung to abandon his country’s nuclear program, Jimmy Carter locked himself in a room full of diplomats in the hope of learning all that he could about the Korean regime. → Read More
Will Trump do what he says?
Donald Trump’s presidency will test the long held assumption that the institutions that govern America, and the world, are stronger than the men and women bound by them. → Read More
Jihadi’s journey from Quakers Hill to Raqqa, Syria
MOHAMED Ali Baryalei, the Sydney street preacher behind last week’s plan to behead an Australian citizen, is believed to be holed up in the Syrian city of Raqqa, the “capital’’ of Islamic State’s self-declared caliphate. → Read More
Islamic State horror hits home: plot to abduct and behead Australians
THE threat of Islamic State has spread from the war-torn Middle East to the other side of the world, after police claimed to have smashed an imminent plot to abduct and behead an Australian civilian as part of the terror group’s global propaganda campaign. → Read More
Terror attack ‘plans’ in place — case to increase threat level bolstered
A SMALL number of Islamic radicals have “settled intentions” to conduct terrorist attacks in Australia, bolstering the case for the nation’s spy chief to recommend an increase in the terror threat level, which could happen as early as tomorrow. → Read More
Police swoop on Sydney, Brisbane homes in terror raids
HUNDREDS of counter-terrorism police have staged co-ordinated raids across Sydney and Brisbane, in what is believed to be one of the biggest such operations in the nation’s history. → Read More
Fears company’s ‘missing $9m’ used to finance terror
A MONEY-REMITTANCE company linked to the family of convicted terrorist Khaled Sharrouf is being investigated by the Australian Federal Police over $9 million in missing funds, some of which authorities fear may have been used to finance Australians fighting with Islamic State. → Read More
Food and fellowship as Muslim community defies the extremists
ELSEWHERE the talk may have been of fresh wars in Iraq or Islamic State’s latest outrage, but in the western Sydney suburb of Lakemba the conversation was of food and fellowship. → Read More
ASIO set to raise terror warning to its highest level yet
AUSTRALIA’s terrorism threat level is poised to rise from medium to high for the first time, after ASIO warned the government it had become increasingly concerned about the chances of an attack on home soil. → Read More
Arrest warrant issued for Islamic State ‘recruiter’
AN arrest warrant has been issued for a former Sydney bouncer alleged to have become one of the top recruiters in Australia for Islamic State. → Read More
Arrest warrant issued for alleged Islamic State recruiter Mohammad Ali Baryalei
AN arrest warrant has been issued for a former Sydney bouncer alleged to have become one of the top recruiters in Australia for Islamic State militants. → Read More
Fears over Australian in senior post with extremists
INTELLIGENCE officials believe former Sydney man Mohammed Ali Baryalei has become one of a handful of Australians to take on a senior role within Islamic State and has become a major facilitator of Australian jihadis fighting with the extremist group. → Read More
Islamic State recruiter Mohammad Ali Baryalei linked to Sydney preacher
A FORMER Kings Cross bouncer who has become one of the top recruiters for the Islamic State, was a close associate of one al-Qa’ida’s top operatives in Syria, former Sydney preacher Abu Sulyaman. → Read More
Sydney jihadist named commander of Iraqi Islamic State unit
ASIO is investigating reports the head of Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has appointed a 40-year-old Sydney man to a senior military leadership role in northern Iraq. → Read More
Father of Mohamed Elomar expresses shame over ‘terrorist son’
IN Lebanon, Mamdouh Elomar was so poor he ate old apples off the ground. In Australia, he kisses it. “I make my family, my money, everything,’’ Mr Elomar told <i>The Australian</i>. “This → Read More
Support for Tony Abbott’s terror crackdown
VOTERS have overwhelmingly backed the government’s proposed crackdown on foreign fighters returning to Australia from countries such as Iraq and Syria as Tony Abbott considers attending a special UN Security Council meeting on the issue next month. → Read More
Can AFP succeed where a dad’s love failed?
MAMDOUH Elomar is a man whose “heart has been shattered into a thousand pieces”. The successful Sydney businessman has spent years trying to steer his sons, Mohamed, 30, and Ahmed, 31, away from radical Islam. → Read More
Aussie terrorists send out warning
ARREST warrants issued for two western Sydney men fighting with a banned terrorist group in Syria and Iraq have triggered a defiant and chilling response, with one of the pair warning of “fireworks coming up soon” for Australia. → Read More
Second Australian in suicide attack
KHALED Sharrouf, the convicted terrorist who in recent weeks has tweeted a string of atrocities that he and fellow jihadis have committed in Syria and Iraq, claims a second Australian has become a suicide bomber. → Read More