stuart cohen, thank you for talking to us.t evidence, first of all, did police have before they arrested these suspects? >> welsh obviously, as with any intelligence operation, they're playing their cards very close to the vest, but one thing they did let out was that the raids that took place in sydney were based on an intercepted phone call between that senior isis militant, that senior australian isis militant that tony abbott mentioned in the piece before and omarjan azari, who was the 22 year old who is the only person who has been charged in these arrests so far. so that's the one piece of intelligence that they did let slip, that they had intercepted the phone call, and that's what put this whole operation in motion, realizing that they were close to possibly carrying out these attacks. >> woodruff: what made them think these individuals were actually going to carry them out? >> well, they have been having these people under surveillance for a while. that's the best that the police would say. they've been watching these