Australia foils terrorist attack....

Courtesy of the Religion of Peace....

Australia arrested four people on Tuesday in anti-terror raids that foiled a Somali-linked suicide plot to storm a military base, in what police said would have been the country's worst extremist attack.

About 400 police descended on homes around Melbourne, netting four men of Somali and Lebanese descent aged in their 20s who are expected in court later, senior officers said.

The men are accused of plotting to attack a military barracks with automatic weapons, police said, adding that members of the group had previously travelled to Somalia to fight in the anarchic African nation's Islamist insurgency.

"The alleged offenders were prepared to inflict a sustained attack on military personnel until they themselves were killed," said Tony Negus, acting chief commissioner of the Australian Federal Police.

"The men's intention was to go into these army barracks and to kill as many people as possible.... This would have been, if it had been able to be carried out, the most serious attack on Australian soil," he added.