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| Australia Stops Third Teenager Headed for Mideast Jihad | |
| 2015-03-26 | |
| [AnNahar] Australia has prevented a third teenager from flying out to fight in the Middle East, a minister said Wednesday, as Western countries battle to stop the flow of youngsters to jihadist groups. The 17-year-old boy was taken off a plane at Sydney airport on March 12 after being interviewed by counter-terrorism officers, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton told news hounds. He has since been returned to his family while investigations continue. Two other boys, aged 16 and 17, with tickets to an undisclosed Middle Eastern country were stopped from leaving Australia on March 6. The cases came after three British schoolgirls left their London homes to join 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.... (IS) bully boyz in Syria in February, which sparked accusations that authorities had failed to warn families their children risked being radicalised.
"The point of all this is there is a significant and growing threat at our airports and our borders," Dutton said. Prime Minister Tony Abbott underlined that no effort would be spared to prevent people joining groups such as IS in Iraq and Syria. "We will do everything we can to stop you if you do try," Abbott told the same presser. "It is absolutely critical that the people of Australia appreciate that the death cult (IS) is reaching out to vulnerable and impressionable young people. "The death cult is reaching out, seeking effectively to brainwash people online," he said. According to the government, about 100 Australians are fighting with IS and other jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq, with another 150 supporting them at home. Australia announced on March 3 that it was sending another 300 troops to Iraq in a joint mission with New Zealand to help train local forces fighting to reclaim territory seized by IS. Some 170 Australian special forces are already in Iraq helping to train government troops. Canberra has boosted security measures amid fears of heightened threats from "home-grown" IS-inspired myrmidons, including revoking citizenship for dual nationals linked to terrorism. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 Set up hidden cameras on the island so we can all watch as they go Lord of the Flies on each other. Pay per view could pay for the whole experement. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-03-26 14:19 |
| #3 MIght consider setting up a fake group that encourages them and then charters a plane for them, and then lands on some remote Australian island and leaves them to think about what they're doing for a decade or so. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-03-26 14:18 |
| #2 Might want to pay for their plane tickets How about a compromise---a half-way ticket (no parachute) |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-03-26 10:46 |
| #1 Might want to pay for their plane tickets and cancel their passports. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2015-03-26 09:54 |