Australia: Men arrested over Sydney 'plane bomb plot' have links to aviation industry

The son of a man arrested in Sydney over an alleged plot to bring down an aeroplane with a bomb or deadly gases studied aviation management and mixes with a network of pilots and airline workers, it can be revealed. The revelation comes as sources confirmed that the Sydney cell behind the alleged plot were talking to foreign fighters in Syria in communications that were picked up by allied intelligence agencies. It is understood that British and US spies fed the information to Australia, triggering police to bring forward a planned operation by launching raids Saturday evening. Four men remain in custody at the Sydney Police Centre on suspicion of attempting to build an improvised explosive device that they could smuggle onto a plane, believed to be a commercial flight to Dubai. <br/>