(9 News) Jesse Morton, a former Al Qaeda recruiter and propagandist from the US who turned FBI informant, can vividly remember his final communications with Robert “Musa” Cerantonio, the jailed Melbourne ringleader of the so-called tinnie terrorist plot.
Cerantonio, who was already on the radar of Australian counter-terror intelligence agents, had turned into a “rabid dog,” Morton says, speaking exclusively to Nine.com.au from his base in the US.
What Cerantonio did not know, as he covertly interacted over the Internet with the one-time American extremist, was that Morton was now working as undercover informant for the FBI.
It was 2015, and Morton had just been released after spending four years inside a US prison, following his capture in Morocco and extradition back to America.
