Joseph “Jihad Jack” Thomas gained infamy after training at an al-Qaeda camp, and became the first Australian to face trial under post-9/11 anti-terror laws.
He shook hands with Osama bin Laden, trained at an al-Qaeda camp and became the first Australian to face trial under post-9/11 anti-terror laws – and last year “Jihad Jack” briefly became a lawful gun owner before police intervened.
Two weeks later NSW Police counter terror investigators contacted the Firearms Registry warning they had just granted a licence to a man once charged with terrorism offences. Thomas’ licence was suspended on January 26. But as the months dragged on, Thomas became disenchanted with the dream of an Islamic utopia and decided to leave Afghanistan.He crossed the border into Pakistan and, while trying to reach Australia, al-Qaeda hijacked two commercial jets and crashed them into the World Trade Centre towers in September 2001, killing thousands of innocent people.
By the time Thomas had beaten all the terror-related charges, he was known widely in the media as “Jihad Jack”, a name and identity he has worked to shed, NCAT heard. “He thinks somehow that he used to have an invisible tattoo on his forehead and back, one saying ‘sucker’ and the other ‘kick me’. Now he is simply not that guy any more,” one document reads.
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