A disturbing pattern has emerged showing those charged with terror offences lived in close proximity to one another.
The Australian Federal Police’s joint counter-terrorism team has managed to prevent the efforts of numerous would-be terrorists planning to commit atrocities on Australian soil.
But analysing the data from the AFP of the raids and arrests carried out over the past three years reveals a trend – ‘triangles of terror’ in Sydney’s suburbs, A Current Affair reports.
In Sydney’s southwest, half of the people charged with terror offences in the past three years live in suburbs within a 35km radius.
A disturbing pattern has emerged showing those charged with terror offences lived in close proximity to one another
In a segment on Monday evening’s program, the dots were connected to reveal a number of triangles across the map.
Parramatta was identified as the home of Farhad Jabar, a 15-year-old boy who gunned down an NSW Police accountant outside NSW Police headquarters in 2015 before special constables shot him dead.
There have been a number of terrorism cases in nearby Fairfield and Auburn, the other two points of this triangle.
Enclosed within the triangle are Merrylands and Guildford, both suburbs where a number of raids and arrests have taken place.
The Australian Federal Police’s joint counter-terrorism team has managed to prevent the efforts of numerous would-be terrorists planning to commit atrocities on Australian soil. Above, AFP officers during a raid in Raby in December 2015
Guildford has seen six people charged with terrorism offences in the past three years – one of the highest rates in the country, according to A Current Affair.
Bankstown, Wiley Park and Lakemba have also seen the AFP number of homes. That triangle is complete with the addition of Campsie – home to ISIS fanatic and the perpetrator of the 2014 Sydney siege Man Munis.
Further south, a smaller triangle is formed between Denham Court, Wiley Park and Raby.
Denham Court is where Mohamed Elomar’s family home was before he became a posterboy for those fleeing to join ISIS before he was killed in Iraq.
Bankstown, Wiley Park and Lakemba have also seen the AFP number of homes. Campsie – home to ISIS fanatic and the perpetrator of the 2014 Sydney siege Man Munis
Further south, a smaller triangle is formed between Denham Court, Wiley Park and Raby
In Minto, Wayne Greenhalgh was stabbed by an alleged ISIS attacker while walking down the street in 2016 – and 6km west, terror charges have been laid against a man living in Raby.
Joseph Siracusa, who is professor of Security and Diplomacy at RMIT, told A Current Affair that the United States could have benefitted from similar data before 9/11.
‘In 9/11, everybody saw in retrospect what was coming but nobody connected the dots – so we paid a very heavy price for it,’ Professor Siracusa told the program.
‘I think that’s one of the lessons, learn how to connect the dots and knowing where these particular neighbourhoods are is a very good start.’