A recent article about an Australian acquitted of a terrorism charge after returning from an al qaeda training camp had me wondering; doesnt that make him a terrorist?
Melbourne man Jack Thomas has been acquitted of terrorism offences in Victoria’s Court of Appeal. His convictions for receiving funds from a terror group and using a false passport were quashed on Friday. Mr. Thomas was earlier sentenced to five years in jail.
After reading that article I didnt think so but I always like to do a little digging. It didnt take long before I came up with this:
 In the interview, the applicant admitted that he had altered his passport in order to conceal the amount of time he had spent in Pakistan. He was concerned that questions might be asked about his associations and activities whilst absent from Australia, which included his contact with members of the al Qaeda terrorist organisation and his having been in Afghanistan (more specifically, at the al Faroq camp at which al Qaeda training was conducted). He also stated that the ticket and money had been provided to him by a man named Khaled bin Attash, who was an associate of Osama Bin Laden and a high ranking al Qaeda operative.
Yup.  Sounds like a terrorist in the making to me. People who attend al Qaeda training camps arent there for unleavened bread recipes.Â
All he got was five years… what the hell is that?  That doesn’t set much of precedent does it?  Don’t people do harder time for stealing cars?