The ABC’s Four Corners has broadcast claims by a former undercover agent that father and son terrorists Sajid and Naveed Akram were showing signs of being radicalised years before they killed 15 people at Bondi beach.
The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (Asio) assessed Naveed, then 17, over his alleged associations with individuals involved in a Islamic State cell in 2019, but later concluded he was not an ongoing threat.
The Four Corners investigation into the pair aired on Monday night, despite a highly unusual and pre-emptive claim by Asio that the episode contained “significant errors of fact”.
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