@curmu-curmu wrote:
Police have arrested two suspected ISIS terrorists who were alleged to have wanted to behead a member of the public.
http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2015/02/11/two-arrested-in-sydney-on-beheading-plot.html
The way I see it, is that althougfh they profess to have links to ISIS, are they just wannabe terrorists claiming to be part of ISIS?
And how many other terrorist attacks around the world, claiming to be on behalf of ISIS, are actually wannabes - in a desperate attempt for notoriety?
When it all boils down, the acts themselves are truly disgusting, and cannot be condoned - but are those who commit them truly ISIS?
What are your thoughts?
my thoughts are that we should
wait and see:
Ms Burn said police were trying to determine if the men were in contact with anyone from IS.
Police have claimed the two men arrested by counter-terrorism officers planned to carry out an attack on the community yesterday.
Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn admitted the force did not know anything about the men, aged 24 and 25, just hours before the arrests were carried out at a Fairfield residence on Riverview Road just after 4pm yesterday afternoon.
"These men were not on our radar," she said.
Ms Burn said police had seized a machete, a knife, a flag "representing" terrorist group ISIL, and a video which showed a man talking about carrying out an attack.
She said the attack was planned as "revenge" for incidents overseas.
"The type of act that we will allege was going to take place is consistent with IS messages," she said, referring to another acronym used to describe the militants.
She said police had been forced to act quickly to stem what she believed would have been a violent attack on Australian soil.
"We received information that an attack was imminent and we acted," she said.
Asked if the men were planning a beheading, she said: "We don't really know what act they were going to commit".
"It was likely to involve one of the items which we seized which was a knife and it was going to involve a person."
ISIL has in the past urged homegrown extremists to carry out attacks on Western police and other authority figures.
The group has also become notorious for its filmed beheadings of hostages.
Ms Burn said the men posed no further threat to the community, but emphasised the need for the public to come forward with any information.
"The concerning thing is that it represents the nature of the environment we currently face," she said.
"We are ready, willing and more than able to respond to disrupt the plans of those who think they can engage in what can only be described as hideous offences so strongly opposed by the community."
The men will face Fairfield Local Court today charged with plotting to carry out a terrorist act.
Ms Burn said police were trying to determine if the men were in contact with anyone from IS.
"We are conducting further investigations. Yesterday, our focus was to act on information that we received about something that was imminent," she said.
"We believe that we have stopped that threat from occurring. However, there are further investigations that now we will need to follow through."
The officers who carried out the arrest were from Operation Castrum, which is composed of officers from the Joint Counter Terrorism Team Sydney and members of the Tactical Operations Unit.
http://www.9news.com.au/National/2015/02/11/06/44/Two-men-arrested-in-connection-with-beheading-plot...
