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AUSTRALIA's leading radical Islamic cleric has revealed he was told of a planned terrorist attack in Australia only months before the Sydney Olympic Games. Sheik Omran - threatened to go to police. Sheik Mohammed Omran, the Melbourne-based leader of the fundamentalist Ahl Sunnah wal Jama'ah Association, claims he advised against a plot to bomb targets in Australia in 2000 and threatened to go to the police. And a separate source has supported Sheik Omran's extraordinary revelation, saying a letter sent to Indonesian terrorist figure Abu Bakar Bashir prominently quoted the Melbourne cleric's view that bombings should not be carried out...

A Melbourne Muslim cleric met a suspected terrorist in London to discuss recruiting Australians to fight with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, according to an indictment for an international terrorist court case. The Australian has obtained a copy of the 692-page indictment which contains details of activities of two Australians with suspected members of al-Qa'ida in Europe. Sheik Mohammed Omran is accused of meeting suspected British al-Qa'ida operative Abu Qutada - who allegedly played a key role in financing and organising the al-Qa'ida network from London. At that meeting, according to Spanish authorities, Sheik Omran talked about recruiting Australians to...

Melbourne man Sheik Mohammed Omran has denied he has ever had contact with Spain's top Al Qaeda suspect. The ABC has obtained Spanish court documents that allege Sheik Omran, and another Australian, were both in contact with the Spanish man, Abu Dahdah. Dahdah is being held as Spain's top Al Qaeda suspect. He allegedly met the ringleader of the September 11 attacks, Mohammed Atta. Spanish court documents allege repeated contacts between Abu Dahdah and both Melbourne man Sheikh Mohammed Omran and Sydney man Bilal Khazal. The court documents say Mr Khazal and Sheik Omran also met another alleged terrorist in...