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Australia Plane Terror Plot Linked to ISIS Fighters in Syria
(Huffington Post-Australia) Siobhan Kenna and Lara Pearce - The brother of Khaled Khayat, a Sydney man arrested on Saturday over a plot to bring down a plane, is reportedly a senior Islamic State fighter in Syria. Khaled and Abdul Merhi, who was also arrested, are believed to be relatives of another notorious Islamic State fighter, Ahmed Merhi, a former Sydney man who travelled to Syria in 2014. Four men hatched the bomb plot with assistance from ISIS in Syria, and were only discovered when Western intelligence agencies intercepted communications between the men in Australia and Syria. The arrests mark the 13th time Australian authorities have foiled a potential terror attack on home soil since 2014.