Sydney terror plot 'organised by IS chief overseas'

'Most sophisticated plot on Australian soil' believed to be organised by IS in Turkey

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Police patrol Sydney Airport in Australia following the alleged terror plot 
(Image credit: William West/AFP/Getty Images)

Australian counter-terrorism police claim Islamic State shipped bomb components to the country to be assembled and used to blow up a passenger plane flying from Sydney to Abu Dhabi.

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