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Five Sydney men have been sentenced in Australia’s longest and most high profile terror case. The sentences ranged from 23 to 28 years in prison for plotting jihad on Australian soil. The men had been stockpiling chemical explosives and other weapons to carry out the attacks.

A court found five Muslim men guilty of plotting attacks in Australia in an effort to wage “violent jihad.” The five men had stored chemicals and materials to build bombs and possessed “step-by-step instructions on how to make bombs capable of causing large-scale death and destruction.” The location of the planned attack was not disclosed.

Police charged three additional men for being members of a Somali Shabaab cell based in Melbourne. The cell was planning to conduct a military assault on an Army base in Sydney. The government is considering banning Shabaab.

Police arrested four Australian citizens who are part of a Shabaab terror cell in Melbourne. “Police believe members of a Melbourne-based group have been undertaking planning to carry out a terrorist attack in Australia and allegedly involved in hostilities in Somalia,” a police statement said.