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Daily Mail Australia obtained exclusive photos of Abdul Kadir Zahed taken by a friend in the early 2000s after police charged the now 37-year-old.
Both Abdul and Tarek, 42, who was arrested in a dramatic operation as he returned to Sydney from Melbourne last week, have been charged with the alleged kidnapping and murder of Youssef Assoum in 2014.
Abdul was arrested and charged by NSW Police detectives at Bathurst Police Station on Tuesday morning.
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A third man, Triantafilos Vlangos, 44, was arrested last week and charged as an accessory for allegedly trying to burn and destroy Assoum’s car.
Assoum, 29, was allegedly thrown out of Liverpool Hospital at night after being stabbed in the head and shot in the thigh in Bankstown in December 2014.
Still bleeding from lacerations to the head and gunshot wound, he was taken to Liverpool Hospital, but he later died.
The exclusive photos of Abdul are from the collection of Zaky Mallah, who met him when they were both teenagers.
Mallah was the first Australian to be charged under the country’s newly enacted anti-terrorism laws in 2003, when he was just 19 years old.
He was later acquitted of planning a terrorist attack in Sydney in 2003 by a Supreme Court of New South Wales.
Mallah served two years in Goulburn Prison after pleading guilty to threatening to kill ASIO officers. He was also convicted of threatening an undercover officer and sentenced to two and a half years on one count of threatening to cause serious harm to a third party.
In 2015, Mallah caused a sensation when he asked a question-and-answer audience about his incarceration.
Mallah’s question to the Q&A panel was pre-approved and answered by former Liberal minister Steve Ciobo, but one of his controversial comments was dismissed as ‘out of character’ by then-presenter Tony Jones and his appearance sparked outrage among Conservative politicians and the media on the A B C.
The guest was banned from the show and ABC issued an apology, but not before then-Prime Minister Tony Abbot publicly asked, “Whose side is ABC on?”
