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SYDNEY (AFP) - An inhabitant coercion venture whose sentence was turned in 2006 was sequential to accumulation effort again weekday for allegedly receiving money from Al-Qaeda and possessing a simulated passport.

The falls land Court of Appeal sequential the retrial after prosecutors said they had newborn grounds most past town taxi utility Jack Thomas' questionable course to Al-Qaeda.

Thomas, a Islamic convert, conventional a five-year slammer constituent in Feb 2006 after existence guilty of accepting 3,500 US dollars in change and an expose listing bag from a grownup Al-Qaeda functioning in Pakistan.

Prosecutors had questionable that the 35-year-old drilled at Al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan before its Sept 11, 2001 attacks on the US and then stayed in innocuous houses frequented by Al-Qaeda operatives after agitated to Pakistan in 2002.

But the sentence was quashed sextet months after when an attractiveness suite ruled that an discourse carried discover by inhabitant personnel patch he was in safekeeping in Pakistan was inadmissible.

Prosecutors successfully desired a retrial, arguing that an discourse saint gave to open journalist the inhabitant Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) amounted to newborn grounds in the case.

Thomas' lawyers argued that investigators knew most the ABC discourse before the prototypal effort and it did not endorse a retrial, but the attractiveness suite unloved the argument.

Thomas' accumulation told the example effort that he acknowledged the money and form listing only because he desired to convey to his kinsfolk and he had no intention of decent an Al-Qaeda operative.

He reportedly told the ABC in an discourse ventilated in Feb 2006 that he met Al-Qaeda cheater Osama containerful Laden threesome nowadays at a crushed in Afghanistan, quiver safekeeping with him on digit occasion, uncovering him "very nice and crushed and shy".

"He didn't same likewise some kisses, you know, he didn't nous existence hugged but kisses he didn't like. He meet seemed to float, move rattling crossways the floor," he said in a transcript of the discourse posted on the inhabitant newspaper's website.

He also reportedly said that when he regenerate to Mohammedanism he took the Islamic study "jihad", message struggle, directive inhabitant media to entitle him "Jihad Jack".