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On 17 April 2021, his parents went to a police station and asked for help

First mistake.


his father told police “he was prepared to sacrifice my son for the safety of the Australian community”.

Kinda shitty parents, damn.


An online covert operative was tasked with communicating to Thomas using two personae: a 24-year-old Muslim man from NSW, and a more extreme person located overseas.

The purpose of the operation was to find Thomas online and “engage him in chat to ascertain his intent if any”, the operative told the court. The strategy was to gather intelligence and information that could be used to charge Thomas with terrorism offences.

On the first occasion Thomas spoke with the operative online, he asked the officer: “are you a spy” and “do you work with the Asio”, to which the operative, in the role of the first persona, responded “I hate these killab [dog]”.

The operative then wrote “should I ask the same of you akhi” to which Thomas replied “I am 13 years old”.

The operative chatted with Thomas on 55 of the next 71 days, including during breaks at school and late at night.

The operative told an operational psychologist, who was expected to provide advice to him about how to communicate effectively online with Thomas, that “this … is a kid on the spectrum, I’m letting him do all the talking [and] just building rapport”.

There were 1,400 pages of online chats between the pair, Fleming found.

The first persona introduced Thomas to the second, more extreme, persona, who encouraged him to make a bomb or kill an AFP member. But the operative gave evidence that Thomas was naive, and living a “fantasy life online”, including by asking questions like whether he could join the kids’ section of Islamic State.

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[-] WithoutFurtherBelay@hexbear.net 103 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

> have special interest in Islamic state
> parents literally report it to the cops
> after all this insane shit finally meet someone online willing to talk about special interest
> they let you infodump and everything, it’s great.
> introduce you to someone else
> they ask you to build a bomb and kill people
> wtf.jpg
> ask if they have a kid’s group or something that does less dangerous shit
> later, find out the truth
> cops gaslight you, a 13 year old, into believing they are talking to a Muslim man and a separate fake person who will encourage them to do illegal things, because your parents reported you to the police
> YFW

wtf

[-] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 65 points 9 months ago

have special interest in Islamic state

This is funny as shit to me

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 39 points 9 months ago

We just need to get to him before the fascists do and explain what opsec is and how we don't do any of that boring opsec bullshit in the news mega and would love 1400 pages of cross referenced analysis about any geopolitical shit he finds fascinating right now.

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