The two men charged with allegedly planning to carry out a brutal terrorist attack in Sydney will plead not guilty . Omar Al-Kutobi , 24 , and Mohammad Kiad , 25 , were charged with planning to commit a terrorist act in February , allegedly hours before they planned to carry out the attack . Police allegedly seized a machete , a hunting knife , a homemade Islamic State flag and a video recording that detailed their planned attack . However , criminal lawyer Adam Houda - who is representing the men - said the video was 'not convincing ' , according to the Sydney Morning Herald . Scroll down for video . Criminal lawyer Adam Houda tells media of his clients plans to plead not guilty to terror charges . 'The matter will be defended , there will be a plea of not guilty , ' Mr Houda said . Mohammad Kiad , 25 ( right ) , and his Iraqi born housemate Omar Al-Kutobi , 24 ( left ) , were arrested on terror charges in their shared squalid granny flat at Fairfield on Tuesday . 'The matter will be defended , there will be a plea of not guilty , ' Mr Houda said outside court . 'From what I 've seen the central feature of this case is this video . ' I 've seen the video and it 's not convincing . ' 'Mr Houda also the trial had been prejudiced by Tony Abbott , who read out details of that video in Parliament . 'He wants to milk this situation politically for all it 's worth , ' Mr Houda told media in February . 'The unfortunate result is that it will also bring unfair prejudice to the matters before the court and also undermine the court process . ' The case will return to court in May . When the men were first in court , Commonwealth DPP prosecutor Kay Marenos said the brief of evidence against the men was four pages long 'but that is likely to change ' and included photographs and a short video . Facebook pictures of Kiad , who immigrated to Australia from Kuwait in 2009 , revealed his fashion interest and showed him sporting expensive watches and suits as well as making some strange fashion statements . A keen weight-lifter , the 25-year-old removalist also shared selfies of himself at the gym . Mr Kiad entered Australia in 2012 , where he had worked as a nurse - but when he arrived in Australia he found he could not transfer his skills . He was granted a visa under the family and spousal visa arrangements and recently took up a job as a removalist but was fired and was on the dole at the time of his arrest , it has been reported . Attorney-General George Brandis told parliament on Wednesday : 'Significantly , police also located a video recording of one suspect kneeling in front of an ISIL ( IS ) flag , with the knife and machete , making a politically-motivated statement , threatening to undertake violent acts with those weapons . ' A Sydney police station and officers on the street were revealed to have been the the targets with attacks scheduled for just before midnight on Tuesday , Channel Nine reported . In contrast to the snaps of him in shiny pants , other pictures show him wearing traditional white Islamic clothing and headpieces . Mr Al-Kutobi was granted citizenship in 2013 and was studying to be a nurse while Mr Kiad , originally from Kuwait where he immigrated from in 2009 , was reported to have been recently fired from his removalist job . While some neighbours told Fairfax that he was 'friendly ' , 'open minded about religion ' and 'never talked about Islam ' , others admitted he and Mr Al-Katobi had begun acting differently after the anti-terror raids in western Sydney last September . 'He began wearing a scarf , just like ISIS and Mohammad , he grew a long beard , ' Neighbour Michael David said of Al-Kutobi . ' I heard them praying in there [ the granny flat ] and reading the Koran , ' said Mr David , who speaks Arabic . Ms Jeisele-Brown said the pair had fallen out with another neighbour over the last month or two for 'speaking sharp ' and that she had been upset with them after finding a religious picture of hers dumped in the rubbish bin . Pictured smoking shisha in mid-2013 : The mens ' neighbours said they mostly kept to themselves but admitted their behaviour had changed drastically in the last few months following police raids in western Sydney and the Martin Place siege . ' I had been in hospital having chemotherapy and when I came back home my picture of Jesus Christ was missing , ' she said . ' I found it in the rubbish . I do n't know who dumped it but I thought ... I did n't say anything . ' Neighbours Teresita Heisele-Brown said she had noticed that after the Martin place siege , the two men had had lengthy discussions in Arabic and had watched a lot of television , perhaps coverage of the a siege . She said when the police came around to arrest the pair , Mohammad had pretended he did n't speak English . She said detectives had made the men lie on the ground while they handcuffed them . Their home , workplaces and cars were all searched by police . Their Fairfield home , a granny flat in Sydney 's west ( pictured ) NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn and Australian Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Michael Phelan said two men have been arrested on terrorism charges . Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article .
Mohammad Kiad and Omar Al-Kutobi plan to plead not guilty . The men were arrested in February after a raid on their Fairfield house . Lawyer says evidence against the terror suspects 'not convincing ' Police allegedly uncovered a machete , a hunting knife , an Islamic State flag and a video of them making threats of carrying out a terrorist attack .