Australia

The trial of five Australian Muslim men who were plotting to carry out an assault on a Sydney army base has begun. The five men sought a fatwa, or religious decree, from an imam in Somalia to carry out the attacks.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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