Anzac Day terror plotters were going to 'mow down a police officer with a car...

A police insider has revealed sickening details about the alleged Anzac Day terror plot, claiming the accused men planned to run over a police officer and then kill him with a knife.

According to the ABC, a security official close to the ongoing investigation said the group of five men intended to take the officer's gun and embark on a shooting rampage on the streets of Melbourne.

The shocking plans mirror those of Islamic preachers Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, who ran down 25-year-old soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich south-east London in May 2013 before 'butchering him' to death.

The five men who were arrested in anti-terror raids on Saturday in Melbourne, after the culmination of a month-long operation code-named Operation Rising, were planning a strikingly similar attack.

Around 200 police officers were involved in the raids and investigations are still ongoing.

Police said the alleged plot could have been executed any time in the next week after they found knifes and swords in the teenager's homes and it emerged that they were scouting police stations in the run-up to their attack.

It comes as a British teenager has been arrested on suspicion of helping to plot the ISIS-inspired attack during the First World War commemorations.

The 14-year-old boy from Blackburn, Lancashire allegedly communicated with Australian men who were planning to use knives and swords to hack officers to death in Melbourne on Anzac Day.

When the alleged plot was uncovered by Greater Manchester Police, they tipped off Australian authorities who swooped on the terror suspects, arresting five men over the weekend.

Greater Manchester Police said today the 14-year-old was first arrested on April 2 after police intercepted communications between him and an Australian man, allegedly relating to a planned terrorist attack.

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Anzac Day terror plotters were going to 'mow down a police officer with a car, and stab him to death with a knife before seizing his gun and going on a shooting rampage,' official says.

On ANZAC - this coming Saturday, 25th of April, Anzac Day, Australia will observe the 100th anniversary of the ANZAC landings in Gallipoli, Turkey. The day that Australia (and New Zealand) were baptised in blood. Both nations had only recently become independent of the UK - Australia in 1901, and New Zealand in 1907, and the First World War was the first time our troops went into battle representing their own countries (both had sent troops as part of British forces in the past), and the Gallipoli landings were the first large scale action they had seen (small forces from both Australia and New Zealand had captured some German dependencies in the Pacific during 1914). ANZAC stands for 'Australian and New Zealand Army Corps', the name of the force that landed at Gallipoli, and ANZAC Day is the most sacred in our national calendar. The 100th ANZAC Day will not surprisingly be of special significance, and a terrorist attack surrounding it would strike at the very heart of Australia.

Major parades of veterans (from later wars - obviously there are none left from the First World War) occur in all major cities, and quite a few smaller ones as well.

But let's ban all firearms because obviously nobody can murder people with something other than a gun. (snicker)

I wish to h... the story about the murder of Lee Rigby by those two savages would have ended with a gun-owning Londoner emerging from his or her dwelling and blasting both of those subhumans with double ought buckshot.

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