Aussie Imam had Videos of Beheadings

Not your typical home videos. In the start of Australia's largest terrorism case it was revealed the spiritual leader had videos of terrorists beheading hostages.

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Videos of Muslim extremists beheading hostages were found in the home of the spiritual leader of 12 Muslims on trial for planning violent jihad to force Australia to withdraw its troops from Iraq, the prosecutor said.

The videos related to the 2004 executions in Iraq of Americans Jack Hensley, Eugene Armstrong and Nick Berg, said prosecutor Richard Maidment, on the second day of Australia's biggest terrorism trial.

The 12 men led by Abdul Nacer Benbrika face charges of being members of an unnamed terrorist organization and planning to use explosives or weapons for an undisclosed terrorist act, with the intention of coercing a government or intimidating the public.

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Another video found in Benbrika's house showed an unnamed Korean man begging for his life before he was beheaded by a masked man using a sword, Maidment said.

"I wouldn't recommend anyone viewing them (the executions). They were harrowing," he said according to a court report by the Australian Associated Press report.

Maidment said other members of the group also had videos of the executions.

The prosecutor told the court on Monday that Benbrika, who praised al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden as a "great man", had talked about killing thousands of people to force Australia to withdraw its troops from Iraq.