Australian ISIS member · 23 February 1981, Australia (Lebanese migrant parents) – Believed killed in an air strike in Syria, August 2017 (earlier 2015 reports were unconfirmed) · Sydney, Australia (later Syria)
Khaled Sharrouf was a Sydney man who became an Islamic State fighter. He was arrested in 2005 in Operation Pendennis, which the ABC described as the biggest terrorism plot in Australian history, and pleaded guilty to possessing items to be used for a terrorist act: six clocks and 140 batteries stolen from a Big W store. In 2009 he was sentenced to a non-parole period of three years and 11 months (ABC). In 2013 he left for Syria on his brother's passport. He became infamous for a 2014 photograph of his 7-year-old son holding a severed head, condemned by then US Secretary of State John Kerry. In February 2017 he became the first person stripped of Australian citizenship under anti-terror laws (ABC). His death was reported in 2015 but was not confirmed; in August 2017 he was believed to have been killed in an air strike in Syria (ABC).
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