Prisoners convert to Islam in escape plot

April 24, 2007
Whilst searching on today's alleged drug ring run from Lithgow prison, I found this article from Jihad Watch ...

One of Australia's most dangerous criminals paid fellow inmates to convert to Islam as a prelude to planning an audacious escape from the country's toughest jail, it was alleged yesterday.

Convicted murderer Bassam Hamzy arranged for cash payments to be secretly made to prisoners prepared to worship Allah and help him plot an escape from the Super Max section of Goulburn jail in New South Wales...

In what prison authorities described as a "pay to pray" conspiracy, 12 of the 37 inmates at the Super Max facility became Muslim fundamentalists or converts...

Hamzy has been moved to a prison in Lithgow, west of Sydney.

See also: Jailbreak jihadists sue over cell time.