A man charged in an Australian court with supporting the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria faced a fresh accusation on Friday of planning a terrorist attack in Australia.
Agim Kruezi, 21, and Omar Succarieh, 31, have been in custody since September 10 when they were arrested in a series of police raids in Brisbane, and neighbouring Logan that culminated a year-long counterterrorism investigation.
Police said on the day of the raids that they had found no evidence of a domestic terrorist threat.
But Kruezi was charged in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Friday with offences, including transporting a firearm and possessing machetes, knives, balaclavas and military fatigues in preparation for a terrorist act.
The court heard no details of the alleged attack plan.
Kruezi, an unemployed resident of Logan, and Succarieh, a driver from Brisbane, were charged in September with making preparations and raising funds for incursions into Syria and Iraq with intentions of engaging in hostile activity.
Succarieh was also charged with providing funds to al-Qaeda offshoot Nusra Front. Kruezi was additionally charged with recruiting jihadists to join the Islamic State movement to fight in Syria and Iraq.
Both appeared in court on Friday, along with a third alleged extremist Louis Maestracci, who is charged with dealing with money that could have been used to fund terrorist operatives overseas. Maestracci, 32, of Logan, is free on bail.
Magistrate John McGrath adjourned charges against all three until December 19. None has entered a plea.
