(NCA NewsWire) A terrorist leader who headed an organisation which was plotting attacks on a series of Sydney landmarks and events including a naval base and the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras has been jailed for at least 11 years and three months.
Hamdi Alqudsi, 48, was last year found guilty by a jury of directing the activities of a terrorist organisation called “Shura” over a five-month period in 2014.
The former security guard and Woolworths worker on Tuesday morning sat silently as he was sentenced in the Supreme Court — an institution he once planned to bomb.
The court heard he and his fellow members had discussed targeting the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, the Garden Island naval base at Woolloomooloo, as well as the Supreme Court and the Australian Federal Police having forged a relationship with IS.
