DubaiEmirati prosecutors say a flydubai co-pilot was radicalised in Melbourne.
Australian agencies are investigating the 29-year-old’s two years as a student there.
Attorney General Hamad Saif al-Shamsi says Hammam al-Hammami read extremist literature in 2017 and told prosecutors the 9/11 attacks inspired him.
Al-Shamsi says flydubai’s screening showed no sign of extremist intent when it hired him in January.
Australian and New Zealand investigators are examining his training abroad while he sits in Emirati custody.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 200+ reports worldwide
- The Guardian
- attributes the radicalisation timeline to his Melbourne studies, relaying UAE prosecutors' account without independent checks
- WION
- dates the first signs of extremism to 2017 in Australia, quoting the attorney-general's exact timeline
- Mirror leans critical
- reports the alleged plot as a suicide attack on Israel's airport terminal and the axe attack on the pilot
Sources: The Guardian, WION, Mirror