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November 10, 2005
Australia: Islamist Was Actor on Soap Opera
The suspected terrorist who fired at police while they came to arrest him two days ago has been revealed as Omar Baladjam, aged 28, who appeared in a soap opera as an actor, it has been revealed. The Telegraph states that yesterday Baladjam was charged with attempted murder. As he was approached outside a suburban mosque, he fired several shots, wounding one officer, before he was shot in the neck.
At a bedside court hearing in Liverpool Hospital, Sydney he was charged with 13 offences, which included planning a terrorist attack and atempted murder of two police officers. He will be appearing in court tomorrow.
According to smh.com.au Balaadjam played a graffiti artist in the soap opera Home and Away, which depicts life in the idyllic but pedestrian and suburban fictional location of Summer Bay. It has a cloying sinature tune, and features plenty of nubile young females who often go swimming in skimpy costumes.
Baladjam's appearance in the soap was fleeting. He appeared as a graffiti artist in 1998 in one episode, where he was listed on the credits as "graffiti tagger number two". Prior to that, he had appeared in two episodes of an ABC crime drama called Wildside, in which he played a ram-raider called Glen Murlock, who killed two policemen.
His acting career appears to have drifted since then, and he took up a job as a spray-painter, registering his paint business in 2003. However, his former theatrical agent, Di Kounnas, claimed to be "pretty shocked" about the shooting incident.
Baladjam had left his house in West Hoxton at 8.40 am, before police had called at the address for the raid they had planned. Those outside watching saw him being picked up by a car which dropped him outside the Jaam-E-Masjid Mosque on Wilson Rd, where he got out, carrying a small backpack. While other police tailed the car as it drove off, two sergeants and two constables drove towards him in a marked car. It was then that Baladjam dropped the backpack, produced a gun and fired at least two of the police, one of which hit an officer's hand, grazing it. He was shot in the neck with a Glock pistol. His condition in hospital is said to be "comfortable".
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at November 10, 2005 8:18 AM
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