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Ali Khalif Shire Ali

Law Enforcement

‘Premeditated’: Coroner rules 2018 Bourke Street attack an act of terrorism

June 28, 2021 Erin Pearson  

(Age) Every time terrorism survivor Rod Patterson closes his eyes, the memory of the 2018 Bourke Street attack is still vivid. Mr Patterson was stabbed to the head as he ran to help someone he thought was the victim of a car […]

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Killer’s brother gets more jail time for New Year terror attack plan

December 18, 2020 Adam Cooper  

(Age) An aspiring terrorist who planned to kill new year’s revellers at Melbourne’s Federation Square has had his prison term increased by six years on appeal. Ali Khalif Shire Ali, younger brother of Bourke Street attacker Hassan Khalif Shire Ali, intended to […]

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Decade in jail for man who planned to gun down New Year’s Eve revellers

May 21, 2020 Adam Cooper  

(Age) The brother of the man who killed restaurant owner Sisto Malaspina in the Bourke Street terror attack has been jailed for a decade over his own plan to kill New Year’s revellers in Federation Square in the name of Islamic State. […]

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How Melbourne teenager Ali Khalif Shire Ali became a terror plotter

November 29, 2019 Erin Pearson  

(Age) In an unassuming family home in the heart of Werribee, a 16-year-old boy watched the atrocities of Islamic State with his brother for up to three hours each night. Videos of beheadings and bloody executions in the Middle East consumed his […]

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Melbourne terror plotter reveals brother’s death made him renounce IS

November 28, 2019 Erin Pearson  

(Age) A failed Melbourne terrorist says the death of his terrorist brother in the Bourke Street attack was the “icing on the cake” in realising his plan to kill innocent people at Federation Square was wrong all along. New Year’s Eve terror […]

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