An ISIS commander suspected of plotting to blow up an Emirati plane from Sydney last year has been captured in Iraq, a media report said Wednesday.
Senior Australian officials have told the ABC that ISIS commander Tarek Khayat and his Australian relative, Ahmed Merhi, were detained in Iraq earlier this year.
Khayat, a Lebanese citizen, has allegedly directed his Sydney-based brothers, Khaled and Mahmoud Khayat, to blow up the Emirati flight from Sydney to Dubai on July 15 last year with 400 passengers and crew on board.
The plot was later foiled, ABC said.
