A handful of extremists with ties to an al-Qaeda-linked group in Somalia planned to storm one of Australia's largest military bases and launch a fight to the death with troops, police said.
Police revealed details of the alleged plot after arresting four suspects - Australian citizens aged between 22 and 26 with Somali and Lebanese origins - in pre-dawn raids Tuesday on 19 houses in the southern city of Melbourne, the culmination of a seven-month intelligence operation
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