Australia released a British-born Muslim who plotted to blow up Israel’s embassy in Canberra.Jack Roche was freed on parole from a top-security prison in the western Australia city of Perth after serving half of his nine-year sentence, the BBC reported. Under his parole conditions, he must report regularly to police.Roche was jailed in 2004 after he admitted having links to al-Qaida and planning to bomb the Israeli embassy, though he never carried out the plan.
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