article_snippet.sent: The duo were 'associates' of Abdul Numan Haider (pictured).
article_snippet.sent: A second 18-year-old man, of Hampton Park in Melbourne's southeast parents have spoken out after it emerged the five men were trying to avenge His parents son .
article_snippet.sent: Numan Haider was killed by police last year after Numan Haider attacked officers with a knife, and is believed to have planned an ISIS-like attack.
article_snippet.sent: Numan Haider's parents spoke out for the first time since Numan Haider death in September, when Numan Haider was gunned down while trying to stab two officers.
article_snippet.sent: Haider's parents comments come after it emerged the five men who planned Saturday's attacks were planning to avenge the five men who planned Saturday's attacks son. '
article_snippet.sent: Prakash, who is know by the jihadist name Abu Khalid al-Kambodi, may have been in direct communication with the teenagers until recently.
article_snippet.sent: Like the five men arrested at the weekendthe weekend, Mr Thorne was linked with 18-year-old Numan Haider, who was shot dead in September after stabbing two police officers at a Melbourne police station car park.
article_snippet.sent: After Melbourne man Numan Haider, 18, allegedly stabbed two police officers outside of a police station, Mr Thorne said that Mr Thorne had been 'murdered by authorities'.