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Sydney terrorist Ahmed Merhi has been sentenced to death by hanging in Iraq
Merhi was convicted for being a member of Islamic State at court in Baghdad
The 27-year-old has begged Australia to intervene and bring him home ...

Merhi claimed he travelled to the warn-torn country for aid work but Judge Suhail rejected the claims.

The 27-year-old told News Corp he wanted to come home to Australia and argued he had been wrongly convicted.

'I'd like to go back to Australia,' he said. ...

Merhi was arrested alongside his cousin Tarek Khayat who is accused by Lebanese and Australian authorities of plotting to bring down an Etihad Airways flight from Sydney to Abu Dhabi. Khayat, 46, admitted to being a financial officer for the terror group Islamic State in Raqqa, Syria, and was ordered to face death by hanging.

Australian police allege Merhi was involved with extremists in Australia who were involved in a number of terror plots.

This included the murder of police accountant Curtis Cheng who was shot dead after he left work in Parramatta, Sydney, by a 15-year-old.

The teenager, Farhad Mohamad Jabar, was shot by police.