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| JI training camps in Australia |
| 2002-11-29 |
| Would-be terrorists linked to Jemaah Islamiah (JI) conducted training at properties in the Blue Mountains and Western Australia and targeted university students as prime recruits. Investigations have revealed that a group of Perth Muslims, disciples of the radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, were convinced an Islamic superstate would emerge from the volatile political landscape of South-East Asia. Perhaps to incorporate Northern Australia.. And while much of the focus on JI in Australia has focused on suburbs heavily populated by Muslims, such as Lakemba, the West Australian cell of JI had the most dedicated religious acolytes in the country. It is understood that ASIO has been told JI carried out numerous training exercises at properties in Western Australia's south-west and the Blue Mountains, under the noses of local authorities, despite denials by landowners. Well they would deny it, wouldn't they? A clearer picture is also emerging about the operations of JI in Australia, how it was funded and how it survived for as long as it did. While much of the initial focus since the September 11 attacks in the United States has been on Sydney, because of its many Muslims, the nucleus of JI was based in Perth. Which has very few Muslims Five of Abu Bakar's followers living there formed a secretive circle to recruit and preach his message, including English-born convert Jack Roche, who has been charged with conspiring to blow up Israeli missions in Sydney and Canberra. All deny being part of any terrorist network. However, Roche reportedly told ASIO that on numerous occasions a group of West Australian Muslims travelled to a property at Myalup, 150 kilometres south of Perth. There they allegedly underwent para-military training. The owner of the property denies this. It is claimed that between six and 20 men regularly shot at each other with more than 20 paint-ball guns bought by the group and taken to the property in a trailer. Somehow running around shooting each other with paintballs doesn't seem as cool as shooting Ak-47s into the air Abdul Rahim Ayub, the alleged Australian leader of JI and a religious teacher at the al-Hidayah Islamic School in Bentley, Western Australia, spoke regularly to Curtin University students, usually after evening prayers. After he had got them riled up.. Internet chat rooms were also used to swing the young around to radical thinking. And sites like www.islam.org.au Things changed dramatically for the group after the September 11 attacks. ASIO has been told that while the group knew "something was about to happen", they had no idea that al-Qaeda had planned the attack on the World Trade Centre. Just the cogs, not important enough to be trusted The group then took extra precautions, such as meeting in parks and open spaces for fear of being taped. But it did not stop group members travelling extensively between Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Pakistan and, in Roche's case, Afghanistan. The usual suspects |
| Posted by:Paul |
| #1 Muslim infiltrators in the West, rarely use Friday khutbah to preach jihad, as do their mother organizations abroad. It is done obliquely, in post khutbah, jumuah sessions. Western governments continue to permit public school property to be used as mosques (mosques being a corruption of an Arabic amalgam - masjid - meaning: place of prostration). Organizations such as the Muslim Students Association, a front group for Jamaat-i-Islami (Lahore, Pakistan) treat Friday Salat (prayer) facilities as Dar-Islam (house of Islam), and enforce sharia exclusion of "infidels" (kufr). Indulgence of these terror centers, integrates church and state, which in itself, is an incorporation of sharia within the Western legal framework. Keep this in mind: Medina was a Jewish village - Yethrib - until Moslem infiltrators broke a treaty with local Jewish tribes. Hell will freeze over, before Moslems recognize Dar-Yehudi. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2002-11-29 19:17:19 |