[The Age-Australia] Thomas Hunter - Four Australian citizens were arrested Tuesday in pre-dawn raids by 400 police targeting a plot by Islamic extremists to engage in suicidal gun battles at military bases. Acting Australian Federal Police Commissioner Tony Negus said "the men were planning to carry out a suicide terrorist attack on a defense establishment within Australia involving an armed assault with automatic weapons." The plotters had links to groups affiliated with the Al Shabaab terrorist organization in Somalia - some were of Somali descent, others Lebanese.
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