New South Wales Deputy Police Commissioner Catherine Burn said they believe the men, aged 24 and 25, were advanced in their preparations for an act of terrorism in Australia as revenge for “incidents overseas.”
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In December last year, Australian authorities stormed the Sydney cafe where a self-styled Muslim cleric had been holding hostages, killing the gunman. They moved in some 16 hours after the siege began, after hearing gunfire inside the Lindt Chocolate Cafe in the center of the city. Two of the 17 hostages initially held by the gunman died.
