2 brothers pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges over a plot to detonate a meat-grinder bomb on a passenger plane

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• Two brothers accused of plotting to blow up a passenger plane scheduled to travel from Sydney, Australia, to Abu Dhabi have pleaded not guilty in the case.
• The suspects reportedly built the bomb under the instruction of a senior Islamic State operative in Syria.
• The elder of the two brothers is accused of hiding a military-grade bomb inside of a meat grinder and placing it inside of his young brother’s check-in luggage.
• The two men face two separate charges of planning to commit acts of terror. They’re expected to stand trial in the Sydney Supreme Court in March 2019.

Two brothers accused of plotting to blow up an outbound passenger flight from Sydney, Australia, using a bomb placed inside of a meat grinder have pleaded not guilty.

Khaled Khayat, 49, and Mahmoud Khayat, 32, are facing multiple terrorism charges. They’re expected to stand trial in the Sydney Supreme Court in March 2019, Australia’s Broadcast Corporation (ABC) reported.

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