Posted AT 5:27 PM EST on 08/11/05
Competing terrorist cells nabbed in Australia
Sydney — Two Islamic terrorist cells were competing to become the first to stage a major bombing in Australia, a prosecutor said Tuesday after police arrested 17 suspects in a series of co-ordinated pre-dawn raids in two cities.
About 500 police arrested nine men in the southern city of Melbourne and eight in Sydney, including one man critically injured in a gunfight with police.
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