CCTV shows dozens of people including a number of children standing nearby, oblivious, as the group tried to be secretive while discussing their plans on the steps of central Melbourne's unofficial meeting place.
Just weeks earlier he had pleaded guilty in Victoria's Supreme Court to his part in the Christmas Day terror plot.
The ringleader
Ibrahim hadn’t always thought this way.Their parents had migrated to Australia from Lebanon before the brothers were born. Their father worked as a taxi driver until, when Ibrahim was aged 10, he left the family unit and remarried.
He was catapulted “straight into the deep end” of Islamic radicalisation, aged 19, when a cousin introduced him to Islamic State and al-Qaeda material.
By the time of his arrest by heavily-armed police inside his Campbellfield home on December 22,
2016, Ibrahim was an Islamic State fanatic in the grip of blinding extremism.
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