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| SYDNEY, Australia — Five people, including a 15-year-old boy, have been charged with terrorism-related offenses after arrests in Sydney on Thursday. | SYDNEY, Australia — Five people, including a 15-year-old boy, have been charged with terrorism-related offenses after arrests in Sydney on Thursday. |
| The five were planning to carry out a terrorist attack in Sydney, possibly aimed at the Australian Federal Police Headquarters, said Deputy Commissioner Michael Phelan of the federal police, a force whose duties include counterterrorism operations. | The five were planning to carry out a terrorist attack in Sydney, possibly aimed at the Australian Federal Police Headquarters, said Deputy Commissioner Michael Phelan of the federal police, a force whose duties include counterterrorism operations. |
| The police did not provide further details, but they said the charges were linked to a plot uncovered after the police seized documents in raids in the city between September 2014 and January 2015. | The police did not provide further details, but they said the charges were linked to a plot uncovered after the police seized documents in raids in the city between September 2014 and January 2015. |
| A man, 20, and the boy had been under police surveillance since then. The two were arrested and charged after raids on homes in Sydney’s southwestern suburbs early Thursday, the police said. | A man, 20, and the boy had been under police surveillance since then. The two were arrested and charged after raids on homes in Sydney’s southwestern suburbs early Thursday, the police said. |
| Three other men, ages 21 and 22, who were being held after the previous raids, were charged later on Thursday. | |
| Catherine Burn, deputy commissioner of the New South Wales Police Force, said it was disturbing that a teenager had been arrested. The police said he was 14 when he first came to their notice. “To be putting a 15-year-old before the courts on very serious charges that carry a maximum penalty of life imprisonment demonstrates the difficulties law enforcement face,” Ms. Burn said. | Catherine Burn, deputy commissioner of the New South Wales Police Force, said it was disturbing that a teenager had been arrested. The police said he was 14 when he first came to their notice. “To be putting a 15-year-old before the courts on very serious charges that carry a maximum penalty of life imprisonment demonstrates the difficulties law enforcement face,” Ms. Burn said. |
| She said the two suspects charged on Thursday had links to another 15-year-old boy, Farhad Jabar, who shot and killed a police accountant, Curtis Cheng, in October in Parramatta, west of Sydney. The teenager was shot and killed by the police. |