Amer Khayat, accused of bombing a plane in Sydney, said the Lebanese authorities had attacked him, fabricating evidence

Key Points:

• The alleged conspiracy is to take a bomb concealed in a meat grinder on a flight Etihad
• M. Khayat says he was interrogated for 65 consecutive days in Lebanon
• 39-year-old Amer Khayat delivered a moving and animated testimony for over an hour during the night in front of the Lebanese military court in Beirut, where he is accused of planning to blow up the Etihad robbery. Abu Dhabi with 400 people aboard in the skies over Australia on July 15, 2009.

  Australian Federal Police said that the Australian-Lebanese dual citizen had "no idea" that He was carrying a bomb hidden in a meat grinder. But the Lebanese authorities accuse him of being a willing suicide bomber.

  Mr. Khayat's brothers, Mahmoud and Khaled, are scheduled to appear before the Supreme Court of New South Wales next year, accused of planting the bomb in his hand. The two brothers are accused of making the bomb using material that was posted to them, in a plot allegedly initiated by a third brother, Tarek Khayat, an Islamic Muslim. Commander of State who was captured in Iraq earlier this year

  
  
  Photo:
  Khaled Khayat (left) and Mahmoud Khayat are accused of planning the Etihad bomb plot. (Provided)
  

  The plan was allegedly aborted only when an Etihad registration officer at Sydney Airport allegedly ordered Amer Khayat to remove items from his carry-on baggage because that he was overweight.

  An alleged conspiracy when they received intelligence from Israeli intelligence 11 days later.

  After the arrest of Mahmoud and Khaled Khayat in Sydney, AFP Vice President Michael Phelan said that their brother was an involuntary participant.

  "We will allege that the person who was to carry the IED [improvised explosive device] in the aircraft did not know that he was going to carry an improvised explosive device," Phelan said in August of last year. On Monday night (local time) in Beirut, Amer Khayat told the Lebanese military court that he had no idea of ​​the plot until three weeks after landing in Lebanon, when he read the news. Arrest of his brothers in the media

  . Nothing to do with all this, "he told the court. "I was leading a free life in Australia, in a nightclub."

  Amer Khayat was arrested in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, last August, 10 days after the arrest of his brothers in Sydney

  . He said he was interrogated by the Lebanese authorities for 65 days in a row.

  He stated that he was slapped by interrogators and forced to sign a blank document, which was then completed. turned into a false confession.

  "They made me sign a blank paper," he said.

  "After hours of interrogation, they took me to the floor and forced me to sign a document."

  
  
  ] Police broke into Sydney homes allegedly connected to the Etihad bomb. (AAP: Sam Mooy)
  

  Amer Khayat said that he was so shocked when he read the so-called confession that he was to be hospitalized.

  "When I read my file for the first time, I found myself four days in the hospital," he said.

  "All I read was wrong in the record."

  Amer Khayat described himself as a former ice user with mental health issues who had been away from his brothers for extended periods

  . The president of the military court, General Houssein Abdallah, explains why he had "Islamic" pictures on his phone, Amer Khayat said that they had been planted there by the Lebanese authorities

  "They took off my phone , erased pictures of girls and boys and Amer Khayat was also questioned about a handwritten letter to his daughter saying that he wanted to commit suicide.

  "This is not my writing", a- he said.

  "You can verify it, the officer wrote a letter in English and forced me to sign it

  " They would do anything for m & # 39; lock up because they are after Tarek Khayat. "

  The Barbie Doll The elder brother of Amer Khayat, Tarek, was a senior commander of the Islamic State sought by Lebanon for having attempted to install an Islamic emirate in the north of the country and to lead his supporters against the Lebanese army to Tripoli in 2014, shortly before According to the Lebanese authorities, Amer Khayat also confessed to trying to pbad a bomb in a Barbie doll in the plane

  . He told the court that he had never brought the doll to the airport.

  The ABC understands that Mahmoud and Khaled Khayat will not face any allegation in Australia that they allegedly attempted to plant a bomb in a Barbie doll.

  Mahmoud and Khaled Khayat pleaded not guilty to two counts each indictment. [19659010] The case against Amer Khayat will be returned to the Lebanese military court in Beirut in September

  Human rights groups have previously accused the Lebanese authorities of torturing suspects and detaining them. force to provide false evidence

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  July 31, 2018 07:20:19