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Australia man arrested on charges of helping ISIS develop missile technology

SYDNEY -- Australian counterterrorism police arrested an unidentified man after a raid on a countryside property on Tuesday and accused him of seeking to help the Islamic State group by developing missile technology, the first arrest of its kind in Australia.

 

Dozens of police, including a dog squad and some officers with metal detectors, raided a property in Young, about 270 km southwest of Sydney, earlier on Tuesday, pictures on Australian media showed.

 

Ian McCartney, Assistant Commissioner of counter-terrorism for the Australian Federal Police, said police will allege the 42-year-old man had been advising the radical Islamist group on how to develop the technical capability to detect guided missiles and to build their own missiles.

 

"We will also allege that he has been researching, designing and modelling systems to assist ISIL's efforts to develop their own long-range guided missile capabilities," McCartney said, using another common term to describe Islamic State.

 


פרסום ראשון: 02.28.17, 09:02