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November 08, 2005
Australia Foils Terror Attack

The BBC reports Australian police arrested 16 people in Sydney and Melbourne preventing a "potentially catastrophic attack."

Chemicals, weapons, and computers were seized in raids on 23 houses in Sydney and Melbourne Tuesday, following a 16-month investigation.

"I'm satisfied that we have disrupted what I would regard as the final stages of a large-scale terrorist attack, or the launch of a terrorist attack:"

Prosecutor Richard Maidment told the court the men had formed a terrorist group to kill "innocent men and women in Australia".

He claims they received military-style training in rural Australia and had discussions about bomb-making.

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"The members of the Sydney group have been gathering chemicals of a kind that were used in the London Underground bombings," Mr Maidment said, adding that Abu Bakr was the ringleader of both the Melbourne and Sydney groups.

From California Yankee.

Posted by Dan Spencer at November 8, 2005 04:32 AM | TrackBack
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