Sydney Police are not sure if a commercial passenger plane or (more likely) a commercial delivery plane were the target of the “meat grinder” bomb plot – PB/TK
Australia Terrorism Suspects Wanted to Use Meat Grinder to Conceal Explosives – By Callum Paton / July 31 2017
Four men being held by Sydney police in connection with an Islamist-inspired plot to down a plane planned to use a meat grinder to conceal explosives or possibly poison.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported the group planned to hide a deadly device in a grinder used to mince meat in order to smuggle it onto the plane. It is not clear whether they planned to target a commercial passenger jet or some other kind of aircraft.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull earlier confirmed that the cell members, all of whom are believed to have been arrested, were capable of making an improvised explosive device. Police recovered multiple items that could have been used to make a bomb.
Turnbull added that the plans were “advanced” and fueled by “an Islamist extremist motivation.”
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