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An increasingly "religious" attitude led an Australian doctor to travel to Syria to join the terrorist group Islamic State, Australian Federal Police (AFP) documents reveal.
An arrest warrant was last week approved by the Adelaide Magistrates Court for Tareq Badawi Kamleh on terrorism charges.
The doctor was spotted in an IS propaganda video during April that revealed he had travelled to Syria.
Court reporters were today given access to a heavily redacted version of the affidavit for the arrest warrant, after an AFP lawyer challenged media requests to view it.
The document reveals Kamleh's friends describing the doctor has becoming "more religious" over the course of 2014, with views that were appearing to become more fundamental.
It states that Kamleh, 29, had earlier told his friends he was reapplying himself to his Muslim faith.
"Up until 2013, Kamleh was living a lifestyle not consistent with what would be described as a practicing Muslim," the document said.
The affidavit said Kamleh travelled to Turkey before crossing into Syria in late March and joining IS.
"At the time of the creation of the IS video, Kamleh was in Al-Raqqa province," the document stated.
"His exact whereabouts are unknown ... it is not known when Kamleh will return to Australia.
"IS is made up of nationals from Syria, Iraq and in excess of 80 other countries. The group continues to attract a large number of foreign fighters."
It alleged that an IS propaganda video featuring Kamleh also showed an ambulance that had been stolen from Iraq.
- Kamleh was born and raised in Perth, Western Australia
- He moved to South Australia in 2004 to study medicine at the University of Adelaide
- Kamleh completed a Bachelor of Medicine in 2009 and started an internship at the Royal Adelaide Hospital
- Following the internship, he commenced a basic paediatric traineeship at the Women's and Children's Hospital
- He moved to Mackay Base Hospital in Queensland in January 2013 and worked in the Child and Adolescent Ward
- In January 2014 he moved back to Perth.
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