11-07-2005, 03:24 PM
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Mine is an evil laugh
Location: Sydney, Australia
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well, the first "raids" have occurred.
linky
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esidents in a south-western Sydney street have described the shock of being woken by an early morning anti-terrorism raid.
NSW Police Commissioner Ken Moroney confirmed federal and state police raided homes in Sydney and Melbourne today and foiled a "large-scale terrorist attack".
Nine people were arrested today in Melbourne and six in Sydney, with more arrests expected later this morning.
Residents of Renown Avenue, Wiley Park, described their shock at being woken by armed police raiding a single-storey brick home nearby.
The raid was still continuing with police still in the street.
Gabriella Beyrouthy, her husband and three children close to where the police activity was occurring.
Ms Beyrouthy said she believed several families lived in the raided home, and she had often seen them in the street.
"I am surprised (about the raid)," she said.
"I see a lot of people in there (and) they're very good people.
"We've never had any problems with them."
Her son John Kourou Malis, 13, said he went outside to find television cameras and police all over the place.
"There were police everywhere," John said.
"I didn't even know what was happening.
"I'm not really scared but I'm surprised this would happen in our street," he said.
A Danish exchange student living in Renown Avenue, Ulrich Soerensen, 17, said he noticed police as he left home for school this morning.
He also noticed police had been watching the home for some time.
"In the last few months police cars have been driving up and down the road, stopping at the end of the road," Mr Soerensen said.
He had also seen a policeman with binoculars looking into the house.
"There's a lot going on over there, a lot of different people," Mr Soerensen said.
Anti-terrorist police later raided a second home in Renown Avenue, this time a double-storey block of units on the opposite side of the street.
Police entered the house and shortly after were seen coming out with a number of different sized brown paper bags they had seized.
The bags were then taken away in a police forensic vehicle.
Armed police were camped outside the house.
A high school girl who spoke briefly to AAP on her way to school said her Renown Avenue home also had been raided early today.
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dlishguy - they are coming for you next 
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