Police: IS ‘commander’ directed plane bomb plot in Australia

 A commander in Islamic State ordered a group of Australian men to build a bomb destined for an Etihad Airways flight departing from Sydney, police have said. The improvised explosive device was intended to be smuggled on to a flight Read More …

Royal Marine terror bomb maker Ciaran Maxwell jailed for 18 years

A terrorist who infiltrated the British military and supplied bombs to dissident Irish republicans has been jailed for 18 years. Ex-Royal Marine Ciaran Maxwell made 43 purpose-built hides across England and Northern Ireland, in which he stashed anti-personnel mines, mortars, Read More …

Australian plane bomb plotters ‘planned to use meat mincer filled with explosives’

Four Australian-Lebanese men accused of plotting to bring down a plane planned to use poisonous gas or a crude bomb disguised as a meat mincer, reports say. The men, who were arrested in raids in Sydney on Saturday night, are not thought Read More …

Sydney terror raids ‘disrupted’ plot to bring down plane, Malcolm Turnbull says

Authorities in Sydney have seized material that could be used to make an improvised bomb, as investigations continue into an alleged terror plot to bring down a plane. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull this morning confirmed raids carried out in Sydney Read More …

Queensland specialist police called out to record numbers of home-made explosives

Specialist police are being called to deal with a soaring number of home-made explosives in Queensland. Calls for help to the Explosive Ordnance Response Team increased by 63 per cent from 2005 to 2011 and almost 160 per cent from 2012 to Read More …

Newtown man charged with making pipe bombs

June 16, 2017 A man who called police about his car being vandalized was charged this week with making pipe bombs. Larry Bailey, 65, had called police in March claiming that his car had been vandalized and that a former Read More …