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Tom Minear Terror Stories 1 MONDAY, MAY 18, 2015 $1.40 (inc GST) HERALDSUN.COM.AU WE’RE FOR VICTORY GETTY IMAGES FOR VICTORY , Melbourne Victory was on a high after its emphatic 3-0 win over Sydney FC in yesterday’s A-League grand final ... but Australian soccer chief Frank Lowy GEORGE SALPIGTIDIS GEORGE hit rock bottom when he crashed off the podium. REPORTS: PAGES 6-7, SPORT Pictures: Terror teen Numan Haider’s friend dies in Middle East EXCLUSIVE TOM MINEAR AND JAMES DOWLING A MELBOURNE teen who was close mates with terrorist Numan Haider has died fighting with jihadis in the Middle East. Irfaan Hussein, 19, has been killed while fighting for Islamic State — with speculation either a bomb blast killed him or he was be- headed by extremists for attempting to return to Victoria. JIHADI It can also be revealed Hussein Irfaan Hussein and Numan Haider. was close friends with Numan Haid- er, 18, who was shot and killed after school in 2013, according to friends. stabbing two police officers in Hussein’s upset family have con- Endeavour Hills in September. firmed he has died, but declined to Hussein and Haider went to Lyn- comment further. dale Secondary College together. A friend said she lost contact Hussein’s spiral into extremism with him after they graduated and began when he started visiting the he and mates stopped associating controversial Al-Furqan Islamic with girls they went to school with. Centre with Haider after finishing CONTINUED PAGE 4 MATESPIES GO DOWN AS ... TIGES KEEP P3 LOVE LOCKS DREAM ALIVE SPORT HEARTBREAK V1 - MHSE01Z01MA 04 NEWS MONDAY, MAY 18, 2015 HERALDSUN.COM.AU School friends shocked as teens Numan Haider and Irfaan Hussein Another teen lost overseas FROM PAGE 1 Police have also alleged in JIHADI DUO court that Harun Causevic — charged over an alleged plot to murder police on Anzac Day LYNDALE SECONDARY COLLEGE 2013 LEAVERS — had the international phone ISMAIL EATHAN number of Hussein, who called himself Abu Sufyan Al Austra- NUMAN SAFI, 19 CRUSE, 19 li, in his room. It is alleged that NARRE EUMEMMERRING Hussein helped Australians HAIDER, 18 WARREN wanting to go to Iraq or Syria ENDEAVOUR Arrested in raids to connect with extremist re- HILLS Arrested in over the alleged cruiters in the Middle East. Operation Rising Anzac Day terror Those as Lyndale Second- Shot and killed counter-terror plot, then released ary College with Hussein and after stabbing raids relating to without charge. Haider also included Ismail two police alleged Anzac Understood to Safi and Eathan Cruse, who officers in Day terror have been upset were arrested during last Endeavour plot. Released after learning of month’s Operation Rising Hills in September without charge Hussein’s death counter-terror raids in Mel- bourne’s southeast. Safi and Cruse were both released without charge. AL FURQAN THE OTHER MATES Cruse’s father Glen said just after the raids that the youth had been distraught after see- ing graphic photos of a dead friend — believed to be Huss- ein — online. IRFAAN Some friends have said the teen was beheaded by IS as he HUSSEIN, 19 was seeking to escape the Mid- DANDENONG dle East, while others say he NORTH was killed in a bomb blast. One friend said she made Friend of Numan the shocking discovery that Haider. Died while Hussein had joined IS when he fighting with jihadis in posted a photo of himself NEIL HARUN SEVDET MEHRAN MOHAMED the Middle East, after wearing military gear and car- PRAKASH CAUSEVIC, 18 BESIM, 18 AZAMI, 19 ELOMAR joining Islamic State rying weapons in the desert. HAMPTON PARK HALLAM NARRE WARREN last year. Hussein “I’d never seen violence All those arrested in called himself Abu from any of those guys,” the last month’s Operation Police alleged they Attended Haider’s Arrested in Operation Sydney-born jihadi Sufyan Al Australi friend said. Rising raids are said by found Hussein’s funeral. Charged Rising counter-terror fighting in Syria who Hussein had deleted his police to have had ties overseas phone number with one count of raids. Charged with notoriously posed with social media accounts. But in a to Al-Furqan, run by in Causevic’s home conspiring to plan stockpiling more two severed heads. YouTube post in April 2014, Bosnian cleric Harun during Operation Rising a terror attack than 200 weapons, Police also found under a clip of British Muslims Mehicevic and also raids. Attended Haider’s after raids over including knives, Elomar’s overseas dancing to Pharrell Williams’ attended by Neil Prakash, funeral. Charged with Anzac Day plot knuckle dusters phone number in Happy, he wrote: “Here we are HARUN believed to be conspiring to kill police and Tasers Causevic’s home dancing whilst the rest of the Australia’s main IS and public on Anzac Day world is bleeding, fear Allah.’’ MEHICEVIC recruiter now in Syria The Herald Sun under- stands Hussein — whose father is Fijian — travelled to Turkey in September or Octo- ber before he was smuggled NEARLY 300 NABBED TRYING TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY over the border to Syria. Police have alleged they ALMOST 300 Australians The latest national groups and organised crime, Queensland teenager who found Hussein’s fighting nom travelling to the Middle East security briefing to the raising new fears that fled the country to join a de guerre scrawled on an have been hauled off planes Federal Government has also sophisticated weapons could terror group in Syria may be envelope in Causevic’s Hamp- in the past nine months in an revealed that 56 “coercive fall into the hands of used to lure other western ton Park home when he was escalation of counter- interviews” — where potential terrorists. youngsters. arrested last month. terrorism operations by spy witnesses are compelled to A total of 284 travellers Security agencies will Hussein grew up in Dande- and policing agencies. give evidence — had been had been offloaded from analyse social media links nong North and neighbours There are fears they could held in secret by a foreign flights leaving Australia over between Oliver Bridgeman remembered him as a “good be travelling to join Islamic fighters taskforce set up concerns that they could be (left) — a class captain and kid” from a “lovely family”. State to fight with people under the Australian Crime travelling to the Middle East rugby league fan — and [email protected] such as Mohamed Elomar Commission. to join IS. jihadist sympathisers, to Twitter: @tminear and Khaled Sharrouf, who The ACC is investigating It comes as security work out how the 18-year-old EDITORIAL, PAGE 20 slipped through the net. links between radicalised officials fear a blond-haired was radicalised. CANNIBALS IN Lenders stingy passing on cuts MORE TO AMY THE KITCHEN ONE in two lenders have SOPHIE ELSWORTH so many haven’t passed it on in THAN BOOZE A NIGERIAN restaurant has remained silent on whether full,’’ she said. “There’s no rea- THE director of a reportedly been shut down they will reduce interest rates Financial comparison site son why they can’t afford to — documentary about Amy for cooking human flesh and almost a fortnight after the finder.com.au’s spokeswoman we are seeing record profits Winehouse, premiering in serving it to customers. Reserve Bank of Australia’s Michelle Hutchison said it was from lenders.” Cannes, hopes the film will Police were tipped off by latest cut. unacceptable so many had Data from finder.com.au shatter the image of a locals who suspected horrific Others have been stingy, remained tongue-tied on rates shows Bankwest is among the hopeless junkie that has things were taking place passing on as little as 15 basis or had been tight and not most miserly of the bigger dogged the singer since her inside the kitchen. points of the 25-basis point passed on the full cut. banks, handing over a rates cut death. “A lot of people said: A police raid found human official drop. “I think it’s really disap- of just 0.17 percentage points. ‘Why do you want to make a heads still dripping with And nine lenders are not pointing that we have seen so A spokesman said the bank film about a junkie?’ ” Asif blood in plastic bags. actually reducing their rates many lenders that haven’t wanted to level out the benefits Kapadia said. Ten people were arrested until June — 27 days after the announced interest rate cuts for borrowers and savers. “That’s exactly why I in connection to the crimes. RBA’s action. yet, and of the ones that have, MONEYSAVER HQ, PAGE 23 Amy Winehouse needed to make the film.” MHSE01Z01MA - V1 HERALDSUN.COM.AU MONDAY, MAY 18, 2015 NEWS 05 die fighting for Islamic State believing they are martyrs for the cause MATES TO END LYNDALE SECONDARY COLLEGE 2013 LEAVERS “THEY were normal at TOM MINEAR AND ISMAIL the end of year 12.” JAMES DOWLINGEATHAN One close friend of NUMAN SAFI, 19 teens Numan Haider He diedCRUSE, in the past 19 few NARRE and Irfaan Hussein months. EUMEMMERRING HAIDER, 18 WARREN shook her head in dis- Hussein and Haider had ENDEAVOUR belief as she remem- been closeArrested mates at in Lyndale raids HILLS Arrested in bered the larrikin pair. with Ismailover Safi the and alleged Eathan Operation RisingJust 18 months later, Cruse, whoAnzac were Dayarrested terror last Shot and killed counter-terrorthe two close mates from month in counter-terrorplot, then released raids after stabbing raids relating toLyndale Secondary Col- to stop anwithout alleged charge.plot to kill two police alleged Anzaclege are dead — killed police on AnzacUnderstood Day.
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