{"id":69528,"date":"2016-12-23T11:30:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T16:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69528"},"modified":"2016-12-23T11:31:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T16:31:14","slug":"7-arrested-in-australian-terror-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69528","title":{"rendered":"7 sought in Australian terror plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/12\/22\/seven-held-alleged-christmas-day-terror-plot-melbourne\/\">Telegraph<\/a> reports that seven folks (six men and one woman) who swore their allegiance to ISIS plotted to attack several locations in downtown Melbourne during Christmas reveling. Five (four Australian-born men \u2013 some of whom had a Lebanese background &#8211; and an Egyptian-born Australian man) are currently in custody;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The foiled plot comes with security on heightened alert in Australia after a truck drove into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil).<\/p>\n<p>Police said the suspects were &#8220;self-radicalised&#8221; but inspired by Isil. The seven people were taken into custody and five locations were searched across Melbourne following a two-week operation involving state and federal police and ASIO, the domestic intelligence agency. A 26-year-old man and 20-year-old woman have since been released.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe [the plot] was going to involve an explosive event,\u201d said commissioner Graham Ashton, chief of police in the state of Victoria.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, while we may not be in a war against Islam, radical Islamists seem to have declared war on Christianity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s Telegraph reports that seven folks (six men and one woman) who swore their allegiance &hellip; <a title=\"7 sought in Australian terror plot\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69528\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">7 sought in Australian terror plot<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}