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following excerpts are FoxNews.com:
CANBERRA,
Australia – Two Australian brothers aged 16 and 17 were stopped at
Sydney Airport on suspicion that they were young jihadis headed to
join the Islamic State group, officials said Sunday.
The
young brothers from Sydney raised the suspicions of customs officials
as they attempted to depart on Friday afternoon, Border Protection
Minister Peter Dutton said.
He
did not say where the pair were headed apart from a Middle Eastern
"conflict zone." He also refused to say what was found in
the boys' luggage that raised suspicion and led to the brothers
beings reported to the airport's new counterterrorism unit.
"These
two young men aged 16 and 17 are kids, not killers, and they
shouldn't be allowed to go to a foreign land to fight then come back
to our land eventually more radicalized," Dutton told reporters.
The
boys' parents were "as shocked as any of us would be" to
discover their sons had attempted to leave the country, Dutton said.
The
boys had been radicalized over the Internet, he said. Dutton did not
say who had paid the boys' air fares.
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