The gunman has been linked to an Islamist group already under investigation. http://t.co/MitOO7vBxV #7News http://t.co/TYkMqF93HR
— 7 News Sydney (@7NewsSydney) October 4, 2015
The group had a ‘youth project’, reaching out to kids as young as six, to preach support for the Caliphate, according to the report.
Via Breitbart:
A teen gunman who shot and killed a NSW Police Service employee in western Sydney on Friday acted after he heard a lecture by the extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, a local news network has reported. However, the group has downplayed the claim as “speculation”.
Seven News said Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar was at a talk given by Hizb ut-Tahrir at nearby Parramatta Mosque just hours before he donned a black robe and killed finance worker Curtis Cheng outside NSW Police headquarters in Parramatta.
It has also emerged that the shooter’s sister flew out of Australia on a flight bound for the Middle East 24-hours before the terror attack.