An Australian court on Friday found five men guilty of conspiring to commit a terrorist attack.

The men were found guilty of stockpiling weapons and chemicals to make bombs, in retaliation at Australia's involvement in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

During a 10-month trial, the prosecutor told the New South Wales state Supreme Court that the five Islamic jihadists obtained "step-by-step instructions on how to make bombs capable of causing large-scale death and destruction."

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