(DailyMail)
An Australian mother has been arrested boarding a plane with her four young children bound for war-torn Syria in an alleged bid to become involved in the bloody civil conflict.
Police in Sydney arrested the 29-year-woman allegedly carrying cash and camouflage clothing for her husband who was already in Syria fighting in the country's bloody civil war.
Detectives from the New South Wales Joint Counter Terrorism Team arrested the woman at Sydney Airport shortly before she was due to board the international flight.
Police targeting Australians engaged in 'foreign incursion' and 'recruitment' offences arrested the woman and took her to Mascot Police Station, near Sydney Airport, where a group of Muslim protestors gathered outsides.
The woman was granted conditional bail to appear in court on June 2 after police executed search warrants on properties in Sydney and Brisbane.
The Sydney-based al-Risalah Facebook page has claimed the woman's passport was confiscated.
'As per the sister who was stopped at the airport last night, she and her kids are now safe with family but passport has been taken," the Facebook post said.
As many as 200 Australians, and hundreds of other foreign nationals including UK passport holders, are believed to have travelled to Syria during the country's civil war to fight with rebel forces engaged in civil warfare with the the army of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Last year, Australian couple Amira Karroum and her husband Yousef Ali, from Granville in western Sydney, died in a mortar attack near the city of Aleppo.
Ms Karroum, who attended a private Christian girls' school on the Gold Coast and graduated from university in graphic design, became radicalised after meeting Mr Ali, an American.
She wrote of who wrote of dying and going to heaven to meet Allah on her Facebook page, and listed her occupation as 'Slave of Allah'. Her title photo had a picture of a garden with the saying, 'Jannah [heaven] is the motive'.
She and Mr Ali died when government forces attacked rebel insurgents, killing dozens of people.
Last year, Australia recorded its first known suicide bomber in Syria when allegedly a jihadist from Brisbane blew himself near a military airport in the country's east.
The man, known as Abu Asma al Australi drove a truck loaded with 12 tonnes of explosives into a checkpoint close to the Deir Al Zour military airport. A video of the incident was later posted on YouTube.
Australian Muslim activist Zaky Mallah told the MailOnline Iraq and Syria was 'deceitfully recruiting vulnerable' people as jihadists.
'I am happy this woman is still in Australia,' he said, 'I would hate to see her caught up in a country that has lost the true meaning of revolution and no longer has a true jihad.'
More than 100,000 people have died in Syria's bloody internal strife, including more than 700 foreigners.
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Police in Sydney arrested the 29-year-woman allegedly carrying cash and camouflage clothing for her husband who was already in Syria fighting in the country's bloody civil war.
Detectives from the New South Wales Joint Counter Terrorism Team arrested the woman at Sydney Airport shortly before she was due to board the international flight.
Police targeting Australians engaged in 'foreign incursion' and 'recruitment' offences arrested the woman and took her to Mascot Police Station, near Sydney Airport, where a group of Muslim protestors gathered outsides.
The woman was granted conditional bail to appear in court on June 2 after police executed search warrants on properties in Sydney and Brisbane.
The Sydney-based al-Risalah Facebook page has claimed the woman's passport was confiscated.
'As per the sister who was stopped at the airport last night, she and her kids are now safe with family but passport has been taken," the Facebook post said.
As many as 200 Australians, and hundreds of other foreign nationals including UK passport holders, are believed to have travelled to Syria during the country's civil war to fight with rebel forces engaged in civil warfare with the the army of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Last year, Australian couple Amira Karroum and her husband Yousef Ali, from Granville in western Sydney, died in a mortar attack near the city of Aleppo.
Ms Karroum, who attended a private Christian girls' school on the Gold Coast and graduated from university in graphic design, became radicalised after meeting Mr Ali, an American.
She wrote of who wrote of dying and going to heaven to meet Allah on her Facebook page, and listed her occupation as 'Slave of Allah'. Her title photo had a picture of a garden with the saying, 'Jannah [heaven] is the motive'.
She and Mr Ali died when government forces attacked rebel insurgents, killing dozens of people.
Last year, Australia recorded its first known suicide bomber in Syria when allegedly a jihadist from Brisbane blew himself near a military airport in the country's east.
The man, known as Abu Asma al Australi drove a truck loaded with 12 tonnes of explosives into a checkpoint close to the Deir Al Zour military airport. A video of the incident was later posted on YouTube.
Australian Muslim activist Zaky Mallah told the MailOnline Iraq and Syria was 'deceitfully recruiting vulnerable' people as jihadists.
'I am happy this woman is still in Australia,' he said, 'I would hate to see her caught up in a country that has lost the true meaning of revolution and no longer has a true jihad.'
More than 100,000 people have died in Syria's bloody internal strife, including more than 700 foreigners.
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