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POLICE have arrested and charged another man in relation to the murder of police accountant Curtis Cheng in Parramatta last month.

THE Grand Mufti has been accused of being out-of-touch with the Muslim community and abandoning them in the aftermath of the Parramatta shooting. Parramatta mosque leader Neil El-Kadomi last night attacked the faith’s spiritual head Dr Ibrahim Abu Mohammed over his lack of support during the crisis. “He did nothing when myself and my family were under siege for 14 days ... there were threats to my family, everything and he never came out to ask, ‘how are you?’,” Mr El-Kadomi said. “I had the Anglican Church support me, the Uniting Church support me, one of the Jewish Board of...

IN the past week Arthur Phillip High School in Parramatta has seen one of its students become a terrorist gunman. Attention has fallen on others too — some are suspected of inciting violence against police in hate-fuelled online posts while other students and former students are believed to be sympathetic to the Islamic State. Several had relatives caught up in the wave of terror raids throughout western Sydney yesterday morning. Some in the school community were stunned and worried by the sudden attention, while others said the relationship between boys at the school and the police had been getting worse...

Well Obama, what do you have to say now? It was on Church Street at Parramatta just after 4pm yesterday. Exclusive footage obtained by 7 News shows 15-year-old Farhad Jabar Khalil Mohammed walking along, dressed in black, waving a gun and shouting at police. The video shows the final moments of this radicalised teenagers. As it all unfolds, just metres away behind a wall, young children play at the Good Start day care centre. Farhad Jabar Khalil Mohammed must have known it was a suicide missions, but what he was doing was worth dying for, was worth killing Curtis Cheng...

Chilling footage has emerged showing the final moments of a 'radicalised' 15-year-old after he stormed a police headquarters and shot an accountant at point-blank range in an 'act of terrorism'. Schoolboy Farhad Jabar Khalil Mohammad can been seen running down the street brandishing his gun in the air just seconds after killing father-of-two Curtis Cheng, 58. Dressed in a black robe, the lone gunman can be heard screaming at officers before having a shoot-out with three special constables guarding the station in Parramatta, Sydney. Multiple shots can be heard and the Channel Seven video then shows the Iranian-born youth, who...

FIVE Sydney men have been found guilty of conspiring to plan a terrorist attack using high-powered guns and homemade bombs designed to cause mass death and destruction on Australian soil. A Supreme Court jury took four weeks and three days to find Mohamed Ali Elomar, 44, Abdul Rakib Hasan, 40, Mohammed Omar Jamal, 25, Moustafa Cheikho, 32, and his uncle Khaled Cheikho, 36, guilty of conspiring to do acts in preparation for a terrorist act or acts. The Daily Telegraph reports the men, all from Sydney's south-west, were accused of stockpiling weapons and chemicals for use in the pursuit of...

The alleged mastermind of a planned terrorist attack in Australia used a NSW Government website to get maps, data and satellite images of potential targets, including Sydney's Centrepoint, the Parramatta CBD and transport systems. "He was using it during office hours to look at things like the numbers of floors in a building," a former colleague of Faheem Lodhi told the Herald. "He was interested in areas dead smack in the middle of the city." Lodhi, 34, also bought a map of the country's energy supply system, which gave details of the routes of gas pipelines and the location of...