Beheading posts shared before terror killing, jury told

(AAP) A Sydney man who allegedly provided the pistol used in a fatal terrorist plot against police shared images of ISIS beheadings and suicide bombings and referred to the “enemies of Allah,” a jury has been told.

Mustafa Dirani is accused of conspiring with others to do an act of terrorism which led to the fatal shooting of police accountant Curtis Cheng outside the NSW Police Force headquarters in Parramatta at 4.30pm on October 2, 2015.

Dirani also faces a back-up charge of supplying a firearm to an unauthorised person. He has pleaded not guilty to both charges, claiming he had no involvement in any terrorist conspiracy.

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