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Australian anti-terror police say imminent IS-linked attack thwarted
Source: Reuters
Australian anti-terror police say imminent IS-linked attack thwarted
SYDNEY Tue Feb 10, 2015 6:48pm EST
(Reuters) - Australian counter-terrorism police said on Wednesday they had thwarted an imminent attack linked to the Islamic State militant group after arresting two men in Sydney a day earlier.
Australia has been on heightened alert for attacks by home-grown Islamist radicals. It raised its national terror threat level to "high" for the first time in September, when hundreds of police conducted raids after receiving information that a radical group planned to conduct a public beheading.
Police said the men arrested after a raid on a home in a western Sydney suburb on Tuesday had been charged with planning a terrorist act.
"When we did the search of the premises, a number of items were located, including a machete, a hunting knife, a home-made flag representing the prescribed terrorist organisation IS, and also a video which depicted a man talking about carrying out an attack," New South Wales Deputy Police Commissioner Catherine Burn told reporters.
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SYDNEY Tue Feb 10, 2015 6:48pm EST
(Reuters) - Australian counter-terrorism police said on Wednesday they had thwarted an imminent attack linked to the Islamic State militant group after arresting two men in Sydney a day earlier.
Australia has been on heightened alert for attacks by home-grown Islamist radicals. It raised its national terror threat level to "high" for the first time in September, when hundreds of police conducted raids after receiving information that a radical group planned to conduct a public beheading.
Police said the men arrested after a raid on a home in a western Sydney suburb on Tuesday had been charged with planning a terrorist act.
"When we did the search of the premises, a number of items were located, including a machete, a hunting knife, a home-made flag representing the prescribed terrorist organisation IS, and also a video which depicted a man talking about carrying out an attack," New South Wales Deputy Police Commissioner Catherine Burn told reporters.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/10/us-australia-security-police-idUSKBN0LE2V520150210
