Terror suspect an informant?

Terror suspect ASIO informant: report
March 8, 2005
Daily Telegraph

FORMER Qantas baggage handler and terrorist suspect Bilal Khazal has been an ASIO informant for more than a decade and might still be, it has been reported.

Khazal, from Lakemba in Sydney's south west, is on bail facing charges of knowingly collecting or making documents connected with terrorism.
During a bail hearing for Khazal on June 22 last year, NSW Supreme Court judge Greg James noted that for the past 11 or 12 years, Khazal had co-operated with the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and the Australian Federal Police (AFP), according to a report in The Bulletin, to be published tomorrow.
The Bulletin cites previously unreported court documents in which Justice James notes Khazal provided ASIO and the AFP with information about "those who profess the same faith as he does and who might have extreme views in support of that faith - and that he has continued to co-operate and assist".
Khazal is alleged to have incited terrorism through a book and website which allegedly encouraged the killing of non-believers.

In the text, Khazal, a Muslim, included Australia on a list of countries he considered "the enemy" and said "militant Jihad is the best form of Jihad", according to facts tendered to Sydney's Central Local Court during a bail hearing on June 2 (June 2) last year.
His defence team has said the text is merely a "cut and paste" document of extracts from the Muslim writings of others.
Khazal will face committal proceedings in June.
AAP