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Brigitte spills beans on Aussie terror plan Ben English 18oct04 WILLIE Brigitte has told French investigators of his extraordinary journey from failed butcher to linchpin in an al-Qaida plan to launch a terror attack on Australia. He has detailed the high-altitude paramilitary training he undertook in a vast camp overlooking the Himalaya in which he and thousands of other jihad warriors were schooled in terrorism. And he has told of how Osama bin Laden's allies have penetrated the Pakistani Army to thwart US efforts to crack terrorist training operations in the remote Pakistani mountain regions that border Afghanistan. A year...

TERROR suspect Willie Brigitte told a fellow Muslim extremist he was planning to launch an attack in Australia, it emerged yesterday. Judicial officials in Paris revealed Frenchman Ibrahim Keita had admitted Brigitte told him in a telephone conversation before he was captured in Sydney last month that he was organising an attack. Keita, 37, was arrested in Paris on Monday for terrorist activities. A highly placed legal source told The Sunday Telegraph Brigitte asked Keita to join the Australian operation as a driver. Brigitte did not specify the nature or time frame of the attack. The revelation is the first...