Islamic State terror attack foiled in Australia ;
Picture used for representational purpose.Australian
police on Wednesday said it thwarted an imminent attack linked to the
Islamic State after arresting two men from a house in Sydney during
anti-terror raids.The duo, aged 24 and 25, were on
Tuesday arrested in a raid carried out by NSW Police and Australian
Federal Police at a house in the western Sydney suburb of Fairfield
following a tip-off that they were planning an attack.
Police
seized a machete, a hunting knife and a flag associated with Islamic
state along with a video of a man talking about carrying out an attack.
The
accused have been charged with preparing to commit a terrorist act. NSW
Deputy Commissioner Cath Burn said the men appeared to be planning to
harm or kill someone by "using one of the items recovered (in the
raids), potentially a knife".
Police believed the attack was going to occur on Tuesday.
She
said the video showed one of the two arrested men making threats. "One
of the men indicated an attack as going to be carried out," she said.
On a query if if the men were planning a beheading, she said, "We don't really know what act they were going to commit."
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