Men arrested in pre-dawn raids released

But Mr Scipione said on Thursday it would take considerable time to examine the evidence collected during Wednesday’s raids, and admitted it was frustrating for authorities.

“It’s incredibly frustrating to us”.

The man from the north-west and the Wentworthville brothers had previously been targeted in sweeping Operation Appleby counter-terrorism raids in September 2014 but they were not arrested at the time.

The gunman, identified by police as 15-year-old Iranian immigrant Farhad Jabar, may have gotten the weapon with the help of Middle Eastern criminals, according to reports in the Australian media.

It has been suggested the men groomed Jabar like paedophiles groom children so he would carry out the attack.

A fifth man was arrested during the raids on unrelated fraud charges.

Four people have been arrested over the murder of a police accountant in Australia which investigators think was terror-related.

Eleven of the 15 people targeted in the raids were charged as part of a group allegedly sympathetic to Islamic State.

‘We know that this young man had been radicalised.

The Muslim teenager, who had walked from a nearby mosque, was himself shot dead by a special constable.

Earlier this week, a student who attended the same school as Jabar was arrested and questioned over alleged social media posts praising Farhad and threatening police.

“Those who do that are making the work of the police and security services… who seek to prevent violent extremism much harder”, he told reporters in Sydney.

Principal Lynne Goodwin released a message today on the school’s website.

The concerns of parents about the activities of students at Arthur Phillip comes as pressure mounts on the release of the audit of prayer groups by the state government.

Asked whether the public should be concerned about radicalisation at Arthur Phillip High, Baird would not be drawn on the issue.

‘The bad guys win if we are divided, if we stop living our normal lives, if we don’t do what we want to do, ‘ Mr Kaldas said.

The moments after a teenager killed a NSW police employee outside the force’s headquarters in Parramatta are shown in video obtained by Seven News.

Authorities reportedly believed Jabar was supplied with a handgun at the mosque that afternoon, which he concealed in his backpack.

Jabar have not been within spying and started overlooked likely though a several of the uses of Wednesday’s raidboss were usually concentration of anti-terrorism raids only a year ago, Burn said.