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    "editor1": "<p><strong>Sydney, Dec 4 (CRICKETNMORE) <\/strong>The brother of Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja has been arrested here in relation to a fake terror &quot;hit list&quot;, police said on Tuesday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Arsalan Khawaja, 37, was charged after the discovery of a fake terror plot to kill senior politicians, which he allegedly created to &quot;set up&quot; a male work colleague, when the two were fighting over a woman, Xinhua news agency reported.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>He was arrested around 8.30 a.m., when he was pulled over while driving through Parramatta and taken to the nearest police precinct.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>He was charged with attempting to pervert justice, by giving untrue evidence in proceedings against Kamer Nizamdeen, and forgery, by making a false document, Canberra Times said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Counter-terrorism police detained Arsalan Khawaja, alleging he wrote a fraudulent diary entry that led to the now-withdrawn terror charge against Sri Lankan national Mohamed Kamer Nilar Nizamdeen.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;We believe this was planned and it was calculated,&quot; said Assistant Commissioner Mick Willing, of the NSW Counter Terrorism and Special Tactics Command.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Occurring back in August, Nizamdeen, 25, was charged with a number of terror offences and held in custody for one month, after authorities found a notebook that allegedly detailed potential attacks on Sydney landmarks and plotting to kill then Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his former deputy Julie Bishop.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>In a volte-face, authorities dropped all charges against the PhD student in October, when a handwriting expert found there was no &quot;conclusive&quot; proof that the writing in the notebook was Nizamdeen&#39;s.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Arsalan Khawaja is expected to be formally charged with forgery and attempting to pervert justice later Tuesday.<br \/>\r\n&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n",
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