Posted on August 04, 2009
Australian police have arrested four people in the city of Melbourne after uncovering what they say was a plot to launch a suicide attack on an army base in Sydney.
The suspects are Australian nationals of Somali and Lebanese descent; one man, aged 25, has been charged with conspiring to plan a terrorist act.
"The men's intention was to actually go into the army barracks and to kill as many soldiers as they could before they themselves were killed," said Tony Negus, acting chief commissioner of the Australian Federal Police.
The BBC's Peter Dobbie asked Senator Russell Trood, who sits on the Parliamentary Committee on Intelligence and Security, for his reaction to the arrests.
To hear Senator Trood's remarks, click below:
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2009/08/090804_oz_arrests_wup_sl.shtml