Australian Police Charge UNSW Staffer With Terror Plotting

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Australia has arrested and charged a Sri Lankan man with planning a terror attack after finding “symbolic locations within Sydney” listed as possible targets in his notebook, police said at a press conference on Aug. 31.

The NSW Joint Counter Terrorism Team (JCTT) arrested Mohamed Nizamdeen from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Kensington, around 2 p.m. on Aug. 30, JCTT stated on its website, after authorities allege that documents containing plans to facilitate terror attacks were found on campus.