‘JIHADIS GROUNDED’ the headline said, ‘Gang of five would-be terrorists stopped at Sydney Airport.’ I’m sure I wasn’t the only Tele reader to enthusiastically keep reading in the hope of a blow-by-blow account of how these five death cult members were intercepted at gunpoint by heavily armed tactical officers, questioned by ASIO agents, charged with multiple serious offences, and denied bail with a first court mention date set down for some time in the next fortnight.
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