CANBERRA, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- A national meeting on counter-terrorism and violent extremism was held in Canberra on Thursday with the participation of Australia's federal and state and territory chiefs of police, security, intelligence and education agencies.
The meeting was called urgently by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in the wake of the shooting and killing of Curtis Cheng, a veteran police accountant, outside Sydney's Parramatta Police Station on October 2 by 15-year-old Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar.
Opening the anti-terrorism summit on Thursday, Turnbull said the shooting of Cheng by teenager Jabar has shown that "radicalization and extremism could be seen in the very young people that we would regard as children".
He urged the police and security agencies to work together to combat the evolving threat of home-grown terror and encouraged them to try new approaches.
On Thursday afternoon, two men were charged in relation to the shooting of Cheng.
One is 22-year-old Talal Alameddine, who was once arrested after his home was raided in the counter-terror raids on five homes on October 7 in relation to Cheng's killing, but was later released.
He was arrested again on Thursday morning and will be charged with supplying the gun to Jabar, the 15-year-old Iraq Kurd born in Iran.
Another one is a 18-year-old man whose brother went to the same high school as Jabar. He has been in custody since the October 7 raids.
Sydney Morning Herald reported that the 18-year-old man allegedly sourced a firearm from a Middle East crime gang and gave it to Jabar, who then used it to shoot Cheng.
Australian Federal Police Commissioner Andrew Colvin said the offences the 18-year-old has been charged with carry a maximum lifetime imprisonment.
