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Australia: Second highest terror alert issued for Australia

2014/09/17

he current terror threat level is the second highest on the scale.
The Australian Security Intelligence Organization raised the terror threat level to high. The threat level was raised from medium to high.

There is no indication about a specific threat, but it appears the government has credible data to justify this alarming step.

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