AFTER an ISIS-inspired terrorist attack in Melbourne on Monday night Victoria’s socialist Premier Daniel Andrews couldn’t explain why a Somalian-born jihadi with a history of violent extremism could possibly be on parole.
Yacqub Khayre was “compliant” during parole, said Andrews, “including drug tests, attending appointments and observing a curfew.”
Yep, Yacqub Khayre was compliant, right up to the point where he took a prostitute hostage, murdered an innocent hotel clerk, rang Channel Seven to pledge allegiance to ISIS and al-Qaeda, and shot three police officers.
He’s certainly compliant now he’s dead.
That is a happy event, because Khayre’s profile is all too familiar in this age of terror. It may surprise ASIO boss Duncan Lewis, but Khayre, 29, was a refugee turned terrorist, arriving from war-torn Somalia in 1994 with his family.
This is how he repaid Australia’s generosity: with violent burglaries and assaults, armed robberies, and involvement in the terror plot to kill soldiers at Holsworthy barracks.
He was acquitted in 2011 but Justice Betty King described him and his co-accused, who included three other refugees, as “unrepentant radical Muslims”.
“The fact that Australia welcomed all of you, and nurtured you and your families, is something that should cause you all to hang your heads in shame that this was the way you planned to show your thanks,” King said.
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