Teen gave gunman a pistol in Parramatta Mosque, say police

The 18-year-old Wentworthville man had been on remand since counter-terrorism raids in Sydney’s west last week following the terror shooting outside police headquarters in Parramatta on October 2.

Talal Alameddine, 22, was arrested in Merrylands on Thursday by the Middle Eastern organised crime squad and joint counter-terrorism team.

The proposal, announced Monday by the attorney general, George Brandis, came less than two weeks after a 15-year-old boy shot and killed a police accountant, Curtis Cheng, in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta, an attack that the police are investigating as an act of terrorism.

“The charges [police] rely on are circumstantial evidence”. He was charged with supplying a firearm, breaching a firearms prohibition order and hindering police.

He did not appear when his matter was mentioned at Sydney’s Central Local Court on Friday and did not apply for bail. “There is much work still to be done and the ongoing security and safety of the Australian community depends on the vigilance of us all”.

Jabar, an Australian born in Iran and of Iraqi-Kurdish heritage, is reported to have shouted religious slogans as he killed Mr Cheng.

THE 18-year-old, who was arrested in connection with investigations into alleged Parramatta shooter Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar, 15, can be held until Thursday under the order.

Meanwhile another man Raban Alou, 18, will be charged with Aid Abet, Counsel and Procure the Comission of a Terrorist Act.

Commissioner Andrew Scipione said officers had worked around the clock to sift through material seized in last week’s raid and gather evidence to charge Mr Alou.

He has remained in custody under specified time provisions but was again arrested today.

The home was also raided in February by police looking for firearms relating to a tip-off about a potentially risky disruption at Sydney’s largest court complex.

“Those matters as you would understand are particularly important to the NSW police force having lost one of our own”, Mr Scipione told reporters in Sydney. This means there is no direct evidence.