October 21, 2008
A JURY has retired to consider its verdict in the trial of a Melbourne man accused of receiving funds from al-Qa'ida.
Joseph Terrence Thomas, 35, has been on trial in the Victoria Supreme Court since last Tuesday.
He is accused of receiving $US3500 ($5000) and a plane ticket from the terrorist organisation al-Qa'ida, and having a false passport.
Most of the evidence put before the trial comes from interviews Thomas had with ABC journalist Sally Neighbour in 2005 for the Four Corners program, and interviews with Fairfax Media journalist Ian Munro in early 2006.
Thomas, from Werribee, travelled to Afghanistan in March 2001, originally with his wife and child, to train with the Taliban to fight in the civil war.
He ended up in an al-Qa'ida camp but says he didn't know it was run by the terrorist group until he saw Osama bin Laden at the camp for the first time, before September 11.
The jury of 12 retired at 1.30pm (AEDT) to deliberate.
A JURY has retired to consider its verdict in the trial of a Melbourne man accused of receiving funds from al-Qa'ida.
Joseph Terrence Thomas, 35, has been on trial in the Victoria Supreme Court since last Tuesday.
He is accused of receiving $US3500 ($5000) and a plane ticket from the terrorist organisation al-Qa'ida, and having a false passport.
Most of the evidence put before the trial comes from interviews Thomas had with ABC journalist Sally Neighbour in 2005 for the Four Corners program, and interviews with Fairfax Media journalist Ian Munro in early 2006.
Thomas, from Werribee, travelled to Afghanistan in March 2001, originally with his wife and child, to train with the Taliban to fight in the civil war.
He ended up in an al-Qa'ida camp but says he didn't know it was run by the terrorist group until he saw Osama bin Laden at the camp for the first time, before September 11.
The jury of 12 retired at 1.30pm (AEDT) to deliberate.
Source: The Australian
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