A five judges bench unanimously overturned a lower court's decision to uphold a 12-year jail term for the 42-year-old Lebanon-born Belal Sadallah Khazaal, who had been set free by an appeals court, Australian News Agency AAP reported today.
Overturning the decision to set him free, the High Court judges ruled that the Lebanese had "extremist intentions". He will now serve nine years before being eligible for parole.
Khazaal, a cabin cleaner with the Australian Airliner was found to have produced a 110-page handbook in Arabic on bomb making, assassinations, kidnappings and how to shoot down planes.
His handbook titled 'Providence of the rules of Jihad' named former US President George Bush and his CIA chief George Tened as targets.
