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| '''Faheem Khalid''' (Born in ] ]) is a convicted terrorist. He is the first person in ] to be convicted of terrorist activities. | |||
| Lodhi was accused of plotting in October 2003 to bomb the national electricity grid or Sydney defence sites in the cause of violent jihad. Police raided Lodhi's Lakemba home and workplace, the Sydney office of Thomson Adsett architects, on October 26, 2003, discovering alleged evidence of a terrorist plot. | |||
| Lodhi was convicted of acting in preparation for a terrorist act – an offence carrying a maximum life sentence – by seeking information about chemicals capable of making explosives. | |||
| Lodhi also was found guilty of possessing a so-called "terrorism manual" and of buying two maps of the electricity grid, connected with preparation for a terrorist act. | |||
| The Pakistani-born Australian citizen had pleaded not guilty to four charges, denying that he planned to cause death or destruction in Australia. | |||
| ] architect Faheem Khalid Lodhi could spend the rest of his life in jail after today becoming the first person convicted of preparing for a terrorist attack on Australian soil. | |||
| Lodhi and Willie Brigitte, who was deported in October 2003 for breaching his tourist visa, allegedly trained in Pakistan with banned terror organisation Lashkar-e-Toiba, had contact using mobile phones registered under false names, Crown Prosecutor Richard Maidment SC told the court, adding that Lodhi helped arrange accommodation for the Frenchman when he arrived in Sydney in May 2003. | |||
| Faheem Khalid Lodhi will not be sentenced until next month to allow lawyers from both sides to consider an amendment to the Crimes Act. | |||
| NSW Supreme Court Justice Anthony Whealy said he would adjourn the case until ] because the amendment may affect Lodhi's sentence. | |||
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