(Brisbane Times) An Australian man charged with terrorism offences allegedly cut off the tracking device he had been ordered to wear and booked a one-way ticket to Saudi Arabia to fly out that night.
Omar Saghir, 40, was arrested in July 2021 by Australian Federal Police officers when he landed at Sydney Airport from Saudi Arabia, where he had been since 2019.
The AFP alleges Saghir played a senior role in a Brisbane group that held a “religiously motivated violent extremist ideology” and a desire to travel to Syria to fight.
Saghir has also been accused of co-founding an organisation that provided funds to people who later fled Australia to join Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a group fighting against Syrian government forces.
