Australia foils major attack
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Australian authorities foiled what they believed to be a large-scale terrorist attack, arresting 15 people during raids in the country’s two biggest cities of Sydney and Melbourne, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported on Tuesday.
“I am satisfied that we have disrupted what I would regard as the final stages of a large-scale terrorist attack, or the launch of a large-scale terrorist attack here in Australia,” New South Wales Police Commissioner Ken Moroney told ABC radio.
The arrests come less than a week after Prime Minster John Howard said Australia received intelligence about a “terrorist threat.”
