Khaled Khayat and Mahmoud Khayat have been jailed for at least 27 years over terrorist plotSydney's Khayat brothers jailed over plot to blow up Etihad plane with meat grinder bombA Sydney man has been jailed for at least 30 years and his brother for at least 27 years over their plot to blow up an Etihad plane with a bomb hidden in a meat grinder. Khaled Khayat, 52, and Mahmoud Khayat, 34, were found guilty earlier this year of conspiring between January and July 2017 to prepare or plan a terrorist act. The plot – which included their older brother Tarek Khayat who fought for Islamic State in Syria – involved blowing up the plane and carrying out a lethal poisonous gas attack. Second Sydney brother found guilty of Etihad meat grinder bomb plot Read moreA bomb hidden in a meat grinder was to be put into the luggage of their unsuspecting brother, Amer Khayat, who was flying to Abu Dhabi. In the NSW supreme court on Tuesday, Justice Christine Adamson jailed Khaled Khayat for 40 years and Mahmoud Khayat for 36 years, with non-parole periods of 30 years and 27 years respectively.

Source: The Guardian December 17, 2019 02:26 UTC