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Australian police arrest two more men over alleged attack plot
Abdullah Salihi, 24, was arrested in Merrylands on Friday morning, and Mohammad Alamoui, 20, was detained in Bankstown.
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Two men have been arrested in Sydney’s west as part of an alleged plot to attack police buildings in Sydney and an inner-city naval base.
Police say he and four other conspirators were involved in “formulating documents connected with preparations to facilitate, assist or engage a person to undertake a terrorist act”.
The arrests bring the total number of people picked up since the scheme was uncovered previous year, to 13.
A 24-year-old man arrested over an alleged plan to carry out a terrorist act in Sydney will remain in jail until his next court appearance in March.
Police shot dead a Melbourne teenager in September 2014 after he stabbed two counter-terrorism officers.
Operation Appleby is an ongoing police operation focusing on a group of young men who police believe were planning a terrorist attack in Australia.
Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn also revealed on Wednesday that the notes mentioned the Garden Island naval base in Woolloomooloo. The homes of both men’s families have previously been raided as part of Operation Appleby, Australian media reported.
The two arrestees are expected to attend the court proceedings later on Wednesday.
Despite this, she stressed that there was “no current threat, there is no pending threat”.
“There was a group of people who came together with the idea, with the intent to do something and they started to make preparations to carry out a terrorist act”, she said.
Raids were said to have occurred in the western Sydney suburbs of Bankstown and Merrylands.
“I do need to stress that this activity today relates to events of last year, it relates to documents and other material seized in search warrants last year”, she said.
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New South Wales Police Force and Australian Federal Police jointly conducted the raid.