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(From Agence France Presse)
Australian authorities are in a "very intensive" hunt for members of an Indonesian group linked to al-Qaeda terrorists, a senior official said amid reports police had found the movement's local headquarters in a Sydney suburb.
Attorney-General Daryl Williams said Jemaah Islamiyah, the radical Islamic movement which carried out last year's bombing in Bali which killed 202 people, is considered a top terrorist threat in Australia.
"Jemaah Islamiyah is the subject of very intensive investigation," Williams said in a television interview.
But he declined to comment on the report in The Weekend Australian newspaper that intelligence agencies had found a Jemaah Islamiyah headquarters in the northern Sydney suburb of Dee Why.
The newspaper quoted intelligence sources saying a spartan Dee Why apartment was occupied by two Indonesian men and had served as a landing point for ...