THE BUZZ: Australian police plan to arrest 2 Middle East fighters

Australian police have obtained arrest warrants for two Australians who are fighting with the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria after one posted photographs of the other posing with severed heads of Syrian soldiers.
Australian Federal Police said in a statement yesterday that they obtained arrest warrants for Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elomar for “terrorism-related activity.”
The former Sydney residents will be arrested if they return to Australia, the statement said.
Photographs posted last week on a Twitter accounted linked to Sharrouf showed Elomar smiling and holding the severed heads of two Syrian soldiers.
Last month, The Australian newspaper published a photograph of Sharrouf posing among the bodies of massacred Iraqis.

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