Australian police arrest five men who planned to go to Syria by boat to joiin ISIS

Prompt by Australian police help nab five men who had drawn up plans to move to Syria in a boat to fight alongside the ISIS - already, as per estimates of security officials, 110 Australians are fighting for the Islamic State group in the Middle East.
This has been reported in nzherald.co.nz dated 11 May 2016.

The five men aged between 21 and 33 had planned to leave Australia in a 7m boat and had towed the half-cabin power boat with a car 2800-Km from their homes in Melbourne to Cairns before the police arrested them from Queensland north of Cairns. They had been under police investigation for weeks and the police have not disclosed when they left Melbourne or where they intended to leave Australia.
All their passports have been cancelled to prevent them leaving the country. They were being held on suspicion of breaking a federal law banning foreign incursions. Entering or preparing to enter a foreign country to engage in a hostile activity is a crime punishable by life imprisonment.
As per information with the Victoria Police, they intended to travel by boat through Indonesia to the Philippines and, subsequently, to Syria.


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