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Melbourne counterterrorism raids: Plot involved running over police officer, shooting rampage, security official says

A security official with knowledge of the police operation to foil an Anzac Day terror attack says the plot involved running a police officer over and then killing him with a knife. "It seems that Prakash has stepped in as the Baryalei Mark II, and that's significant," Greg Barton, director at Monash University's Global Terrorism Research Centre, said. "Islamic State is sort of like a comet with a long tail - it's got a very tight nucleus then a long diffuse tail," Mr Barton said. Those behind plot had links to Al-Furqan: police Police said the men involved in the alleged plot all had links to the controversial Melbourne Islamic centre, Al-Furqan.

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