{"id":19868,"date":"2014-09-19T05:30:04","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T09:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=19868"},"modified":"2014-09-18T18:19:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T22:19:30","slug":"australia-thwarts-isil-beheading-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2014\/09\/australia-thwarts-isil-beheading-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia thwarts ISIL beheading plot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Islamic State jihadists planned to kidnap two random people off the street in Australia and then behead them, showing the video online as a way to demonstrate their worldwide reach.\u00a0 But Australian authorities discovered the plot, arresting 15 people in the country\u2019s largest counterterrorism operation.<\/p>\n

Do you doubt that ISIL (I\u2019m just going to start calling them that) would like to do something similar in the United States?\u00a0 I predict that instead of the large-scale mass killings favored by al-Qaeda, the new ISIL-flavored terrorism will aim at smaller-scale attacks that are easier to carry out but that still have a maximum horrific impact.\u00a0 Think, beheadings.<\/p>\n

From Australia raids foil reported ISIS beheading plots | Fox News<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Australian counterterrorism forces detained 15 people Thursday in a series of suburban raids after receiving intelligence that the Islamic State militant group was planning public beheadings in two Australian cities to demonstrate its reach.<\/p>\n

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About 800 federal and state police officers raided more than a dozen properties across 12 Sydney suburbs as part of the operation \u2014 the largest in Australian history, Australian Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Andrew Colvin told the Associated Press. A sword was removed as part of evidence at one of the homes.<\/p>\n

Separate raids in the eastern cities of Brisbane and Logan were also conducted.<\/p>\n

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported that the plan involved kidnapping randomly selected members of the public off the streets in Sydney and Brisbane, beheading them on camera, and releasing the recordings through Islamic State\u2019s propaganda arm in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

Later Thursday, Attorney General George Brandis confirmed that a person born in Afghanistan who had spent time in Australia and is now working with the Islamic State group in the Middle East ordered supporters in Australia to behead people and videotape the killings.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the \u2026 police had not acted today, there is a likelihood that this would have happened,\u201d Brandis told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.<\/p>\n

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