(Age) Khaled Temssah listed his attributes like he was making a pitch in his daytime job of selling cars.
He knew martial arts, could use a rifle and had been hunting many times, spoke Arabic and was blessed with a “good tongue” for speaking with others, had leadership skills, was a quick learner and happy to be trained, and could get $5000 within a fortnight. Most of all, he was devoted to the ideology.
Temssah’s online exchanges with a man on the Wickr messaging platform in June 2019 showed he was deadly serious about wanting to travel from Melbourne to India to fight in the disputed region of Kashmir. Terror organisation Islamic State claimed it had established a province in India in the months before.
