CANBERRA, Australia, July 10 (UPI) -- Australian police were searching for possible terrorism charges to file against a fugitive being extradited from Lebanon.
Saleh Jamal, due to be brought back to Australia this week after serving time for firearms and passport fraud offenses, faces four criminal charges when he lands in Sydney, including alleged involvement with a shooting attack on a police station in 1998.
Police are now looking at his activities in Australia between then and when he fled the country is 2004, The Australian reported Monday. Although out on bail when he absconded, he was under additional investigation then on suspicion of having planned possible acts of terrorism.
Jamal was allegedly seen casing an oil refinery and a harbor bridge just before New Year's Eve 2003 with a man now awaiting trial on terrorism charges.
The man was one of more than 20 terror suspects rounded up last November in a nationwide sweep of suspects.
The newspaper said authorities are probling Jamal's possible links to a total of nine of the terror suspects rounded up.
