Australian IS recruiter calls for attacks on home soil

An Australian Islamic State (IS) militant in Syria has urged Australian Muslims through a video message to "rise up" and launch attacks on their own soil.

Neil Prakash, alias Abu Khaled al-Cambodi, is believed to have fled to Syria from Melbourne in early 2013. Prakash is of Fijian and Cambodian descent.

In the 12-minute video, Prakash issued a call to arms to his "beloved brothers in Australia", the Melbourne Age reported.

"I also send a message to my brothers, my beloved brothers in Australia," he says.

"Now is the time to rise, now is the time to wake up... You must start attacking before they attack you."

Prakash also speaks about "Numan", believed to be Melbourne teenager Numan Haider, who was shot dead after stabbing two anti-terror police officers in September.

"I knew this brother personally," he said.

"When he failed because the government took his passport, it didn't stop him. Look what he did brothers. He rushed towards Jannat (paradise)."

The 23-year-old former Buddhist is believed to have ascended to the role of an IS recruiter after another Australian, Mohammad Ali Baryalei, died fighting in Syria last year.

It is believed that Prakash might have been in contact with at least two young Melbourne men accused of planning an Anzac Day shooting rampage in Melbourne's south-eastern suburbs.

The professionally-produced propaganda video, which charts Prakash's conversion to Islam and his journey to Syria, appears to be a new release from IS, but was likely recorded last year.