Terror attack thwarted
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Australian police say they foiled a terrorist attack this week with the largest counterterrorist operation the country has ever mounted. Authorities confiscated bomb-making chemicals and weapons, and arrested at least 16 people from terror cells in Sydney and Melbourne. Among those arrested was Abdul Nacer Benbrika, a radical preacher alleged to be the leader of both cells. “We have disrupted what I would regard as the final stages of a large-scale terrorist attack,” said New South Wales Police Commissioner Ken Moroney. Officials said they did not know what the intended target was to be.
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