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Australia holds four over suspected terror plot

By Peter Smith in Sydney

Published: August 4 2009 02:55 | Last updated: August 4 2009 12:38

Australian police arrested four men with alleged links to a Somali Islamist terrorist group on Tuesday on suspicion of plotting a suicide attack on an Australian military base.

The Australian nationals of Somali and Lebanese descent were taken into custody following one of the country’s largest counter-terrorism investigations.

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