(AAP) A radicalised NSW inmate has told a court he’s sorry for waterboarding and carving an Islamic State slogan into his cellmate’s forehead but not for attacking the former soldier.
A “physical attack would be OK,” Bourhan Hraichie said from the dock in the NSW Supreme Court on Friday.
He was confirming what he wrote in an earlier letter to the judge, which said the attack “was done for Islamic reasons and it is an honourable and praiseworthy act that I hope to be rewarded for by Allah.”
The now 21-year-old also wrote: “I will always support Jihad as it is part of Islam and I love my brothers from Al Qaida and the Taliban and the other mujahid soldiers.”
