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Australia Foils Islamist Terrorist Plot


(The Australian) Paul Maley and Dan Box - Islamic State supporters were planning a public execution in Australia, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said. "Quite direct exhortations were coming from an Australian who is apparently quite senior in ISIL to networks of support back in Australia to conduct demonstration killings here in this country." Police say some of the 15 men arrested in Sydney had communicated with the Islamic State organization while developing their plan to seize a random member of the public and behead them live on camera. Omarjan Azari, 22, was charged with conspiring with Mohammed Baryalei, the most senior Australian in the Islamic State terrorist group, "to do acts in preparation for, or planning, a terrorist act." The plan involved the "random selection of persons to rather gruesomely execute," Prosecutor Michael Allnutt told the court.
2014-09-18 00:00:00
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