Australian Teen Plans ’Kangaroo Bomb’

Local Editor

Court documents published in media Thursday reported that an Australian teenager facing terror charges allegedly discussed stuffing a kangaroo with explosives, painting it with the "ISIS" terrorist organization's symbol and setting it loose on police.

However, Sevdet Besim, 19, who was arrested in counter-terrorism raids in Melbourne in April, pleaded not guilty to four charges related to planning an attack during Anzac Day commemorations for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps troops who died in combat.

Relatively, a fifth charge of conspiring to commit a terrorist act was dropped.

In parallel, prosecutors alleged that Besim had online conversations with another teenager based overseas, which involved using the marsupial during an attack.

Besim's court appearance came two days after authorities charged an 18-year-old Sydney teen with collecting documents on ways to stage terrorist acts.

He was remanded in custody and will appear in the Victorian Supreme Court on Feb. 3.

Canberra has been increasingly concerned about home-grown extremism and raised the terror threat alert level to high in September 2014.

Meanwhile, authorities conducted a series of counter-terrorism raids in various cities, while the government passed new national security laws.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team