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SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - A Pakistani-born man lost an appeal Thursday against his conviction and sentence for plotting a terrorist attack in Australia that police believe could have targeted the national electricity supply grid.
Faheem Khalid Lodhi, 37, was convicted and sentenced to a maximum 20 years in prison in June by the New South Wales state Supreme Court under counterterrorism laws introduced in response to global security concerns after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
He was convicted of acting in preparation for terrorism by seeking prices for chemicals capable of making explosives; of possessing instructions for making explosives, detonators and poisons; and of buying two maps of the national electricity grid — all in connection with preparing a terrorist act.
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