"Tell me about the prices of hand guns, m16, sword, knife, gornade etc????" Alleged terrorist recruiter Hamdi Alqudsi ditched his plans to travel to Syria. Credit:SANA/AP Hundreds of messages, mainly sent using Skype and WhatsApp mobile phone applications, presented as evidence in the NSW Supreme Court on Monday, offer a glimpse into the experiences of Australians allegedly fighting for terrorist organisations in Syria. Mr Alqudsi, 42, of St Helens Park is on trial charged with helping seven men prepare to fight in Syria between June and November 2013. "Tell me about where do you sleep, what you use to clean yourself, from shaving hair, give me a detail picture please brother???," the court heard Mr Alqudsi asked one of his alleged recruits, Mehmet Biber​.

"We havt spongey mattresses…On the floor pretty much wherever in the building you want…Or even outside…And the toilets are pretty much same as Hajj [Mecca] lol…so start squatting," Biber, who has since returned to Australia, responded. "Cleaning your private parts???" Mr Alqudsi asked. "Water…toilet paper doesn't exist." Another of Mr Alqudsi's alleged recruits, Caner Temel, told him that married men receive a $60 monthly wage. Food is provided, he wrote, but they pay to go to restaurants, buy icecream and for clothes. "Bro foods not prob thank God...toilets r sitting down Sunnah [Islamic law] shows is from a bucket."

'We the most wanted men in the west' Hamdi Alqudsi The court heard that Mr Alqudsi also asked about the cost of buying a specifically black AK-47 weapon "instead of a normal brown" one. "The black ak is is about 3500 very expensive and they hav diffrent bullits so not rilli good bro," Mr Temel, who died in battle, replies. While Mr Alqudsi wrote of his desire to join his alleged recruits in Syria, the court heard that when he tried to leave Australia in September 2013 his passport was cancelled. He told Mr Temel that he was delaying his journey because his mum was battling cancer, his brother had multiple sclerosis and his father was about to have knee reconstruction surgery.

In another conversation, Mr Alqudsi asked Mr Temel to help make a video encouraging Australian Muslims to "support jihad and prepare for the mujahideen for the glory of this religion." He wrote that ASIO had "given the baite of hate to our close brothers" and had scared them "as we the most wanted men in the west". The court heard that "jihadi literature", including documents titled "A debate between the sword and the pen" and "The value regarding killing oneself to protect information" were discovered when a house Mr Alqudsi lived in was raided and he was arrested in December 2013. Mr Alqudsi's defence lawyer highlighted that Mr Alqudsi only sometimes lived in the property and five other men, aged between 13 and 20, were at the time living there with his partner Carnita Matthews. Mr Alqudsi has pleaded not guilty to the charges and the trial will continue on Tuesday.