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they Sure HATE Victorians dont they?.. (Read 339 times)
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they Sure HATE Victorians dont they?..
Nov 20th, 2018 at 8:58am
 
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/three-men-arrested-in-antiterror...

Three men arrested in Melbourne’s northwest this morning over an alleged terror plot were planning to kill as many people as possible in a crowded place, police say.

Officers detained the trio as part of a joint counter-terror operation and say they recently tried to get a .22 semi-automatic rifle for the attack.

Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton said the plan had escalated over recent weeks.

“Certainly it’s our view that, whilst a specific location … was not finalised, there was a view towards a crowded place, a place where maximum people would be attending, to be able, to kill, we allege, as maximum an amount of people as possible,” he said.

Police have been investigating them since March.

The three men arrested are all of Turkish descent and had their passports cancelled this year, police say.

Two of them had no criminal history.

Those in custody are a 30-year-old man from Dallas, a 26-year-old man from Campbellfield and a 21-year-old man from Greenvale.

A property in Coolaroo was also searched.

“It will be alleged the three men arrested were involved in undertaking preparations for planning a terrorist act in Melbourne,” an earlier Victoria Police statement said.

“The operation is ongoing and further information will be made available at the appropriate time.

“Victoria Police would like to reassure the community that the threat has been contained and there is no ongoing threat.”

Sources have told the Herald Sun the arrests follow “increased chatter” in the wake of the Bourke St terror attack.




I am not sure how they can possibly know that for certain
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