Terror raids over Parramatta shooting

Surprise raid… A man believed to be the brother of the teens arrested during this morning’s raids, talks with police in Wentworthville.

Police don’t know what the association might be between Jabar and the men who were arrested on Wednesday, and Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn declined to say what part officials believe they played in last week’s shooting beyond allegedly having knowledge of the attack.

Police said in a statement the arrests were connected to the death of police service accountant Curtis Cheng outside Police Headquarters at Parramatta on Friday.

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.

The operation followed Farhad Jabar, 15, shooting 58-year-old Curtis Cheng in the back of the head outside New South Wales state police headquarters in the city’s west on Friday.

The 15-year-old gunman, who was born in Iran, was shot and killed at the scene by police.

He was also charged with assaulting and intimidating police and resisting arrest when he was stopped on his way to Arthur Phillip High School in western Sydney on Tuesday.

“It’s a reality of life we can’t be everywhere with everybody at every single second of the day”, she said, but added that police believe he must have come under “some influence, whether it was ideologically, religious or politically motivated”.

“The Department of Education has been working in consultation with police on the issue or radicalisation”, a spokesperson said.

Baryalei, who was killed in Syria, was also known to attend the Parramatta mosque.

News Corp reported a Muslim prayer group had to be suspended by the school’s principal, Lynn Goodwin, for “disruptive” behavior, where a few students were thought to have been preaching extremism. Among the ramblings, described by one source as mostly “jibberish”, the note said: “blood will run into the streets” and “know your security means nothing to us”.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said the attack “appears to have been an act of terrorism”.

Police think the men recruited Jabar to help them evade surveillance and may have played a role in radicalizing him, according to the Herald.

“We definitely have our suspicion he [Jabar] did not act alone”, Ms Burns said.

New South Wales Police had been on high alert after the group posted its plans on Facebook to rally outside the mosque, despite not having approval.