In July, ISIS nearly succeeded in bringing down a passenger plane

Published August 4, 2017 3:46pm ET



Australian authorities this week prevented two Islamic State atrocities by one group of suspects.

The first involved a bomb that was to be hidden in airline luggage. According to Australian federal police, an ISIS handler in Syria sent two suspects a military-grade explosive via air cargo shipment from Turkey. One of the suspects had been communicating with that handler since April. One suspect then hid the explosives in a kitchen meat grinder and put it in his brother’s bag.

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