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Australia’s biggest terror bust: Public beheading allegedly planned

In Australia's biggest ever counter-terrorism operation, police believe they have prevented a public beheading in Sydney.

Bryce Lowry by Bryce Lowry
18-09-2014 07:46
in News

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Australian police say they have foiled a major terror act, following the country’s largest ever counter-terrorism sweep.

15 people have been arrested with one man, Omarjan Azari, charged with serious terrorism offences, apparently including the intent to carry out a public beheading on the streets of Sydney.

It is understood police believe that suspects were planning to behead a random member of the public and drape the victim in the flag of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, amongst objects confiscated by police in the raids was a sword.

Azari, 22, from Guildford, appeared briefly in court later on Thursday. Commonwealth Prosecutor Michael Allnutt told the court that Azari was part of a plot to commit an act to “shock, horrify and terrify” the Australian community.

The plan involved the “random selection of persons to rather gruesomely execute”, Allnut said.

Allnutt told the court the accused had “an unusual level of fanaticism”.

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Bail was refused and the case deferred for 6 weeks

When asked about the alleged plot to conduct a public beheading, Prime Minister Tony Abbott told reporters: “That’s the intelligence we received.

“Quite direct exhortations were coming from an Australian who is apparently quite senior in ISIL to networks in Australia to conduct demonstration killings here in this country,” Mr Abbott said.

“So this is not just suspicion, this is intent.”

Labor leader Bill Shorten described the allegations as “truly horrifying”.

“The reports of what these people were allegedly preparing are truly shocking. Like every Australian it makes me sick to the stomach to think that some of the images that we associate with other parts of the world could possibly occur in our streets,” he said.

Forensic experts collect evidence from a house in the Guildford area of Sydney on September 18, 2014. Australia's largest ever counter-terrorism raids detained 15 people and disrupted plans to "commit violent acts", including against random members of the public that reportedly involved a beheading on camera. AFP PHOTO / Saeed Khan        (Photo credit should read SAEED KHAN/AFP/Getty Images)
IMAGE: Forensic experts collect evidence from a house in the Guildford area of Sydney on Thursday as part of Australia’s largest ever counter-terrorism raids. (SAEED KHAN/AFP/Getty Images)

About 800 state and federal police officers in New South Wales and 70 in Queensland conducted raids in Sydney and Brisbane late on Wednesday night and into Thursday.

25 warrants were executed in the sweep, in the Sydney suburbs of Beecroft, Bellavista, Guildford, Merrylands, Northmead, Wentworthville, Marsfield, Westmead, Castle Hill, Revesby, Bass Hill and Regents Park

Australian Federal Police acting assistant commissioner Andrew Colvin said the raids in Brisbane were a “follow-up” to last week’s arrests in the city and not necessarily linked to the Sydney raids, although the possibility was being investigated.

“So while the raids in Queensland are not directly related to what’s happened here today in NSW, the investigations continue and we are looking at linkages between the two,” Mr Colvin told reporters.

The AFP today also launched Operation Hammerhead, which includes an additional 220 highly visible police at major events and flashpoint locations, to help counter terrorist threats and discourage public unrest related to extremism.

TOP IMAGE: Man detained by police in Thursday’s counter-terrorism raids (Courtesy: NSW Police Media)

 

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