Hum Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 (edited) SYDNEY, Australia - Police in Australia arrested 15 terror suspects in a string of raids early Tuesday and said they had foiled a major terror attack. New South Wales Police Commissioner Ken Moroney said 400 officers were involved in raids in Sydney that captured six men while nine more suspects were picked up in the southern city of Melbourne. ?I?m satisfied that we have disrupted what I would regard as the final stages of a large scale terrorist attack ... here in Australia,? Moroney told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio. Rob Stary, a Melbourne lawyer who said he represented eight people arrested in the city, said most of his clients in the case had been charged with being members of a banned organizations. The suspects were expected to appear in courts in Sydney and Melbourne later Tuesday. Police declined to give details of the likely target of the attack, but Victoria state police chief Christine Nixon said that next year?s Commonwealth Games, to be staged in Melbourne, were not a target. ?It?s the largest operation of counterterrorism that?s ever been conducted in this country and it?s taken us a long period of time,? Nixon told the ABC. Australia has never been hit by a major terror attack, but its citizens have repeatedly been targeted overseas, particularly in neighboring Indonesia. Opponents say Prime Minister John Howard?s strong support for the U.S.-led strikes on Iraq and decision to send troops there and to Afghanistan have made it inevitable Australia will be attacked. source Edited November 7, 2005 by Hum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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