Somali-New Zealander found guilty of seeking to fight in Syria

[Duchess]

A Melbourne man is facing a lengthy jail term after being found guilty of three charges relating to plans to travel to Syria to fight against the government of Bashar al-Assad.

Amin Mohamed, 25, was charged in December with three counts of making preparations to travel to a foreign country to engage in hostile acts.

The case against Mohamed detailed how he applied for a New Zealand passport to enter Syria, booked flights to Turkey, and obtained the contact details of a Turkish resident with the intent of fighting in Syria.

Mohamed had pleaded not guilty to the charges. His lawyers argued he had done none of these things in preparation to engage in hostilities in Syria.

But he was found guilty on all counts by a jury in the Victorian Supreme Court sitting in Melbourne.

The maximum sentence for each charge is 10 years.

During the trial, the jury heard hours of telephones intercepts in which Mohamed used coded language to disguise plans to travel to Syria.

On several occasions he could be heard on the intercepts describing a phone as his "secure line".

The court previously heard a recorded conversation with an official at New Zealand's Security Intelligence Service in which Mohamed said he had only planned to visit Istanbul for a day so that he could fulfil his dream of seeing the famed Blue Mosque.

He told the intelligence official he then planned to travel to Denmark to visit his fiancée for the first time, before returning to his job in Melbourne.

Mohamed, whose visa has been cancelled, will remain in an immigration detention centre until a sentencing hearing in December.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-13/amin-mohamed-found-guilty-of-trying-to-fight-in-syria/6849716

 

[John Michael]

Damn were not allowed to go to Turkey anymore?

Itd kind of heard to believe a guy with a job and fiancée would risk his future, but Isis still seem to recruiting.

 

[Shamis]

Denmark is coded language for Syria or going on a long journey.
His girlfriend is ISIS because online bay isku shukaansadeen and he was headed there to seal the deal. I think he's guilty.

 

[waraabe]

filth. but if someone asks him to fight for his country he would be coming up with all sorts of excuses. i wished they executed these people