http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20330551-5001561,00.html
Natasha Robinson
"Police took a risk with a swoop on terror suspects last year, but the case is moving to a trial. As the first week of November 2005 ended, a group of Melbourne investigators faced a wrenching choice. An alleged terror plot by a Sydney cell had reached a stage so advanced that the upper echelons of counter-terrorist operations had decided they had to make arrests. But Melbourne investigators had legal advice from the commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions. Wait. Amass more evidence. The choice for investigators was stark: arrest now and be confronted with running a circumstantial case against the Melbourne suspects, or hold off and risk that the cell would scatter and escape justice. They chose to proceed with the biggest counter-terrorist swoop in Australia's history. It generated headlines that Australia had diverted an imminent and potentially catastrophic attack."
