Police arrested 17 terror suspects in Australia's two biggest cities Tuesday in raids authorities said foiled a plot to carry out a catastrophic terror attack. A radical Muslim cleric known for praisingI suspect that this sort of thing is happening more often than we realize. This was a major operation, I can imagine the media ignoring a smaller one.
Osama bin Laden was charged with masterminding the plot.
More than 500 police backed up by helicopters were involved in raids across Sydney and Melbourne, arresting eight men in Sydney and nine in Melbourne and seizing chemicals, weapons, computers and backpacks.
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"I'm satisfied that we have disrupted what I would regard as the final stages of a large-scale terrorist attack ... here in Australia," New South Wales Police Commissioner Ken Moroney told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio.
He later said he expected more arrests "in coming days and weeks."
But this is really good news for our allies in the War on Terror as there has been a lot of chatter recently about an Australian strike. Here's hoping this was it and it has been averted.
