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The country's spy boss has detailed the extraordinary chance encounter between one of his young female employees and a group of accused jihadis, which allowed police to stop one of Australia's largest planned terror attacks.
Details of how the rookie ASIO officer helped to foil the terror cell can be revealed for the first time after a court lifted a suppression order.
Abdullah Chaarani, 27, Ahmed Mohamed, 25, and Hamza Abbas, 23, face a possible sentence of life imprisonment for their roles in the plot.
The jury took just over six days to deliver their verdict on November 2, after a lengthy trial that heard the men had purchased machetes as well as metal pipes, light globes and batteries to make explosives, and had tried to obtain guns.
