Word: benbrika
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Dates: during 2005-2005
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...Muslim community, the Pendennis taskforce soon found links between the Kinglake group and people already under suspicion for plotting a terrorist attack in Melbourne. Over the next several months, the investigation widened to include a related group of young Muslim men in Sydney, and controversial cleric Abdul Nacer Benbrika...
...Pendennis pounced. Police in Sydney and Melbourne arrested Benbrika and 16 other suspects, and seized firearms, enough chemicals and equipment to make several large bombs, and computers. Hours after the raids, New South Wales Police Commissioner Ken Moroney told the media: "We've disrupted a large-scale operation which, had it been allowed to go through to fruition, we certainly believe would have been catastrophic...
...Courts in Sydney and Melbourne were told that hours of voice recordings and other evidence would show the Melbourne group were members of a terrorist organization led by Benbrika and had been involved in discussions about bomb-making, military training and jihad. One man had allegedly expressed a desire to conduct a suicide "martyr mission" in Australia but had been denied permission; others were suspected to have trained with terrorist groups overseas. Crown Prosecutor Richard Maidment said the surveillance had detected "a constant theme ... directed at violent jihad which has no respect for human life and embracing the notion that...
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