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02 Dec
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Sydney : Bomber lives among us now

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by Mark Buttler and Anthony Dowsley A man convicted of a terrorist bombing in Melbourne 20 years ago can never be deported for his crime. Levon Demirian was a key figure in the 1986 bombing of the Turkish consulate in ...

01 Dec
0

ASIO hears of terror attack on radio news

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When Armenian terrorists tried to blow up the office of the Turkish consulate-general in Melbourne in 1986, the first the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) knew of it was a radio news broadcast. A 1987 cabinet document, released by the ...

11 Nov
0

ASIO detected bomb plot by Armenian terrorists

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by Brendan Nicholson IN 1983, ASIO was trying to track down those responsible for a terrorist attack in Sydney when investigators discovered another atrocity was being planned.

01 Feb
0

ASIO warned of 1983 Armenian terror plot

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It’s almost forgotten now but one of the most notorious terror acts perpetrated on Australian soil was conducted by a little known group against a Turkish diplomat. In the attack on December 17, 1980, unknown gunmen assassinated Sarik Ariyak, the ...