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| 4 Australian women arrested with gun parts |
| 2005-11-16 |
| FOUR Australian women have been detained while trying to board a plane in Syria, reportedly after gun parts were found inside a child's toy. The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT) said two women from Victoria and two from NSW were with two Iraqi women when they were detained at Damascus airport on Tuesday. All six were of Iraqi origin, the department said. A DFAT spokesman would not confirm media reports that the group was detained after a disassembled gun was found inside a toy being carried by a child with the women. The ABC has quoted a Syrian police source and a diplomatic source as saying the women entered the airport in the Syrian capital with a child. They said the women were detained after the gun parts were found in a toy the child was holding. The women were reportedly trying to board a flight bound for Australia. The DFAT spokesman said one of the Australian women was accompanied by her son. "Consular officials from Cairo are seeking to confirm the reports and to provide consular assistance to the group," he said. Syrian police were questioning the women, the ABC reported. |
| Posted by:Oztralian |
| #2 No, what you do is dump the gunparts in the airport trashbin and rat on the bastards that talked you into such a fool move. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2005-11-16 23:34 |
| #1 Typical dummies. You are traveling as a group, so you break up the gun among you. Dumb. If one of you gets nicked, they search all of you. What you do is get objects that have parts that look like gun parts normally, and replace them with gun parts. A barrel is like a tube, a spring is like a spring. Unless they are looking for gun parts, they see what they expect to see. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-11-16 20:10 |