SYDNEY, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Australian police have arrested a Sydney-area man for allegedly supplying stolen military rocket launchers to suspected terrorists.
According to The Weekend Australian, Taha Abdulrahman was arrested at his home without incident Friday and charged with 17 offences relating to five rocket launchers.
Authorities, who had earlier obtained information on stolen military weapons in a deal with a jailed underworld figure, said the case showed a "blurring the lines" between common criminality and terrorism.
Abdulrahman, 28, was remanded in custody for later court proceedings.
Police said the weapons were given to at least one of 23 people arrested in an anti-terror swoop in Sydney and Melbourne in 2005, and that Abdulrahman knew several of the accused.
Targets of the alleged terrorists possibly included the Sydney offices of American Express and the country's Lucas Heights nuclear reactor.
Seven rocket launchers have been found missing from military inventory. Authorities are continuing to vet inventory records of the Australian Defense Force in case other weapons were unaccounted for.
Last month an army soldier was arrested in the State of Victoria after purloined military weapons were found stashed properties near a military base.
