Australia: Muslim who was ‘known extremist’ wearing tracking device murders elderly couple in ‘terrorism incident’
December 19, 2020 2:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER
Note that his passport was canceled after he tried to join jihadis in Somalia. Many times I have warned that jihadis who were prevented from leaving non-Muslim countries to join the jihad might well get the idea that they could wage jihad right at home. And here we are.
“Elderly couple murdered in ‘terrorism incident’ in Australia,” by Lia Eustachewich, New York Post, December 18, 2020:
An elderly couple in Australia was killed in a “terrorism incident” carried out by a knife-wielding man who was later shot dead by police, officials said Friday.
The bodies of Maurice Anthill, 87, and Zoe Anthill, 86, were found in their Brisbane home Thursday — hours after the suspect, Raghe Abdi, 22, was killed by police.
Abdi — who was out on bail — threatened cops with a knife before he was fatally shot on a highway on the outskirts of Brisbane….
Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll said Abdi was a known extremist who acted alone.
“We had no choice but to declare this as a terrorism incident,” Carroll told reporters.
The ISIS-influenced killer was arrested in May 2019 on suspicion that he was trying to join extremists when he attempted to depart Brisbane Airport for Somalia.
He was released without charge due to insufficient evidence, but his passport was canceled….
He was free on bail and had been forced to wear a GPS tracking device — which he’d cut off before he was shot. |
