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...pulled a handgun from his backpack and fired, wounding an officer in the hand. Police returned fire, hitting the spray painter and sometime television actor in the neck. A few suburbs away, police called in a helicopter with a heat-seeking camera to help locate father of five Mohamed Elomar, who hid in a park near his home in Condell Park. On Nov. 11, 25-year-old Izzydeen Atik was arrested after police stopped his car in a Sydney street...
...Many of the arrested men were known to intelligence agencies and police. As far back as 2000, police and asio agents had raided the homes of Mohamed Elomar and some of his family. Some of his brothers owned a property in bushland near Canberra that was allegedly used for weapons training, and where a makeshift explosive had been found. Police raids found spent cartridges from semi-automatic weapons, a shot-up vehicle and what appeared to be a home-made mortar bomb...