Sydney man guilty of plane bomb plot

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 23%. (I'm a bot)A Sydney man who claimed he was trying to prevent a terrorist attack has been found guilty of plotting to blow up an Etihad plane with a bomb hidden in a meat grinder.A NSW Supreme Court jury on Wednesday found him guilty of the charge which involved the Etihad bomb plot and another plan to carry out a lethal poisonous gas attack on people in a confined space.Prosecutor Lincoln Crowley QC alleged the bomb was in a meat grinder to be put into the luggage of a passenger who was flying out of Sydney on the Etihad flight.Khaled Khayat in his police interview spoke of walking into the airport with the concealed bomb.He said when he saw children at the airport he thought "Don't do it, don't be stupid, don't do it" and removed the bomb from the baggage.Richard Pontella, told the jury that contrary to what his client told police he never took the bomb to the airport and actually was trying to prevent a terrorist attack.Summary Source | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: bomb#1 airport#2 terrorist#3 attack#4 jury#5Post found in /r/worldnews.NOTICE: This thread is for discussing the submission topic. Please do not discuss the concept of the autotldr bot here.