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| Southeast Asia |
| Suspects revealed as raids hit home |
| 2002-10-30 |
| In Sydney, one man was in custody after an ASIO raid. The men, Julius Basri, 31, his father Ali, 56, and brother Jaya Fadly, 30, immediately denied involvement in Jemaah Islamiah (JI). "Nope. Nope. Not us..." Acting on warrants signed by the Federal Attorney General, Daryl Williams, ASIO and Federal Police - with guns drawn and armed with a sledgehammer - first raided the Lakemba flat of Jaya Basri and his family on Sunday night. Shortly after 5am yesterday, they arrived with balaclavas, machine guns and helmets to raid the homes of the Suparta and Herbert families in the Perth suburb of Thornlie. About midday in Sydney yesterday - as Jaya Basri was telling a news conference that he feared authorities would persecute his family - a raid was conducted on the Belmore house of his father, where his brother was taken into custody over an expired visa. Dontcha hate it when they persecute your family? Betcha don't hate it as much as those people hated being dynamited, though... No arrests were made on security-related matters, but more than 80 plastic bags - containing passports, birth certificates, computers, mobile phones, video tapes, books, magazines, a prayer calender and personal papers - were taken away. He could be pure as the driven snow. But he'd better be hoping that every one of those passports is genuine... The Department of Immigration also picked up six Indonesians yesterday at a Dee Why factory for visa violations. All were worshippers at the Dee Why Mosque. Four are threatened with deportation. In the intel biz, you make your money looking for patterns. Once you find a pattern, you try to follow it, in anticipation of more and better quality information. Some patterns are pretty tiresome, though. This is one. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |