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Down Under
Foiled again!
2003-06-09
RAIDS carried out in Australia after the Bali bombing disrupted plans for terrorist attacks on Australian soil, ABC Television's Four Corners program will reveal tonight.
No! You mean the racist, fascist scare campaign from Howard to brown-nose Bush and victimise Islamics was Justified? It actually saved Australian Lives???? I'm shocked - shocked i say!
Four Corners reporter Sally Neighbour said the program's investigations uncovered proof that Sydney served as a key financial and support group for terrorist organisation Jemaah Islamiah (JI).
somebody better tell SBS - and Bob Brown, Mark Latham and the rest of the Socialists...
"It would appear that their activities have been disrupted by the raids after the Bali bombings, and of course as we now know, they had got to the point where they were planning terrorist attacks in Australia," Ms Neighbour told ABC radio. She said Australian Federal Police had confirmed JI aimed to become a fully operational cell within Australia, capable of carrying out terrorist attacks. "(Mining magnate) Joe Gutnick was targeted by this group ... on orders from the al-Qaeda leadership in Afghanistan," Ms Neighbour said. "In 2000, they cased the Israeli Embassy with a view to bombing (it) ... and the consulate in Sydney."
Those would be the startsie targets — people were supposed to say to themselves "they're targeting Jews, so it doesn't have anything to do with us..."
Ms Neighbour said JI undertook extensive fundraising within Australia, sending money back to South-East Asia to finance, among other things, an arms factory that produced rocket-propelled grenades and launchers. A $US1 million ($A1.51 million) donation from Australia also funded a fleet of vehicles used by members of the Islamic left. "In short, Sydney in particular was a key financial and support base for the group (JI), and as time went by they decided to try and take control of a new mosque that was being built in Dee Why," Ms Neighbour said. "There was actually quite a violent power struggle which ended in blows over control of the mosque which (JI leader Abu Bakar) Bashir and his group saw as a really good base for their group in Australia."
Perhaps under threat of an inquiry into their anti-US bias during the Iraq war, ABC has decided to start reporting the other side of the story
Posted by:Anon1

#1  nice to see some good news
Posted by: liberalhawk   2003-06-09 09:20:07  

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