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| Australia investigating if teen among ISIS suicide bombers |
| 2015-03-13 |
| [RUDAW.NET] Australia's government was trying to confirm reports that an Australian teenager was among a group of jacket wallahs from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... movement that struck Iraq's embattled Anbar province. The Islamic State group claimed in an online statement that it used imported muscle from Australia, Belgium, Syria and Uzbekistan in Wednesday's attack, in which at least 13 suicide boom-mobiles went kaboom!almost simultaneously in Ramadi, the historic provincial capital of Anbar, killing two soldiers and wounding eight. One photo that was posted featured a white van driving down a dusty street, alongside an image of a young man who closely resembles 18-year-old Australian Jake Bilardi sitting behind the wheel. "I can confirm that we're seeking to independently verify that he was part of this suicide kaboom attack," Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said Thursday. "The news appears very grim, but we are seeking to independently verify it." The British press labeled Bilardi the "White Jihadi" in December after images of him armed with a rifle in front of Islamic flags appeared on social media sites. The teen left his home in the southern Australian city of Melbourne in August and headed to the Middle East. Bishop said he had been on Australia's radar for several months, and in October, she canceled his passport on the advice of the country's security agencies. Last year, the Australian government passed sweeping counterterrorism legislation that made it easier for officials to cancel the passports of people they suspect of engaging in extremism. The law also makes it a crime for Australians to visit certain terrorism hot spots overseas. "If these reports are confirmed, this is another tragic example of a young Australian being lured to a senseless and violent death by a brutal terrorist organization that is intent on imposing suffering and misery not only in Iraq and in Syria, but beyond," Bishop said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 I was only hoping it wasn't used by a similar-looking non-dead guy to infiltrate |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-03-13 21:46 |
| #3 Now cancel his passport Cancelled last October, according to the third paragraph from the bottom. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-03-13 19:50 |
| #2 I'm with you frank. Hope he still feels it. What is with governments wanting to save the ENEMIES lives these days.?What world do they live in , were they think these ppl would not kill thrm without a second thought? |
| Posted by: chris 2015-03-13 17:35 |
| #1 "The news appears very grim, but we are seeking to independently verify it." grim? I hope he's dead and it was painful. Now cancel his passport |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-03-13 10:42 |