MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - One of four men charged in an alleged plot to shoot up an Australian military base angrily denied he was a terrorist in court Wednesday and accused the country’s troops of killing innocent people overseas.

Wissam Mahmoud Fattal, whom police say is a member of an extremist cell with ties to an al-Qaida-linked group in Somalia, refused to stand before the judge in Melbourne Magistrates Court, where he was charged with conspiring to plan a terrorist attack. He did not enter a plea and faces life in prison if convicted.

As Fattal was being led from the courtroom, he accused Australia of killing innocent people in Afghanistan and Iraq and said, "You call us terrorists - I’ve never killed anyone in my life."

Fattal’s attorney, Grace Morgan, said her client didn’t mean to disrespect the judge by not standing, but he would stand only for his god.