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 SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - The Sydney arm of an alleged Islamic terror network had stockpiled enough chemicals to make at least 15 large bombs, a newspaper reported Thursday, as police sifted through evidence seized in pre-dawn raids earlier this week.
The eight suspects, arrested in Sydney Tuesday and charged with conspiracy to manufacture explosives for a terrorist attack, had registered a series of company names to justify buying large quantities of industrial chemicals, The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper said, citing unidentified investigators.
The report said the group needed only common household chemicals available at local hardware stores to replicate the type of bombs used in the July 7 suicide attacks on London's public transport system that killed 52 people and the four bombers.
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