Planned terrorist attacks, Australia sentenced to 17 years in prison 25-year-old of Albanian origin

25-year-old Agim Kruezi was arrested in 2014 and convicted in the Supreme Court of Brisbane, of preparing terrorist acts and planning a foreign Inquisition.

At the court it was said that Kruezi planned to travel to Syria to fight a group linked to Al-Qaeda, but was stopped by customs officers and his passports was canceled.

According to Daily MaiI, Police found a semiautomatic weapon, two masks, two choppers, a photocopier of a book called Gihad and a Islamic State flag in his bedroom.

Instructions to execute beheadings were also discovered on his computer, and in the early days of arrest, he bought 10 liters of gasoline and tried to buy suitable glass bottles to make Molotov.

Judge Roslyn Atkinson said it was necessary for the anti-terrorism police to arrest him to prevent a public attack.

The “was planned to the point of amassing weapons”, she said. “There is no doubt... that you've been aiming at carrying out the terrorist plot, although precise details still need to be clarified”. She added that “has no evidence that you have changed your (extremistic) ” views.

Canberra is increasingly affected by increasing extremism and citizens joining jihadist organisations abroad, such as the Islamic State.

The country adopted sweeping anti-terrorism laws in 2014, including blocking jihadists from going abroad.

Authorities say they have prevented 14 terrorist attacks in recent years. Others have occurred, including the 2014 siege of a café in downtown Sydney, where two hostages were killed