Terrorist Abdul Nacer Benbrika’s continuing detention order is being reviewed

(Daily Telegraph) Australia’s most dangerous terrorist, Abdul Nacer Benbrika, will appear in court on Thursday, as authorities review the continuing detention order which is keeping him in jail despite him completing his 15-year jail term.

The automatic review of his order, the first of its kind handed down in Australia, comes months after Benbrika lost two legal appeals against his continuing detention order, which will run for a period of three years.

The Algerian-born cleric, who was the spiritual leader of terror cells in Melbourne and Sydney which were busted in 2004 plotting terror attacks on sites in Victoria and New South Wales, has been deemed too dangerous to be released, despite him completing his jail term a year ago.

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