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Southeast Asia
Australian & Inodnesian authorities foil terror attack
2007-04-04
A SUSPECTED terrorist group foiled by Australian and Indonesian police was planning an attack twice the size of the first Bali bombings, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) says.

AFP deputy commissioner John Lawler said the group was well advanced and had accumulated large quantities of explosives. "Our technical experts are telling us that it's likely to be twice the size of the first Bali bombings," he said on Southern Cross radio. "It's significant because what it's done is prevented, we believe, future bombing attacks in Indonesia.

"The group were well advanced."

Australian and Indonesian police arrested seven men linked to Jemaah Islamiah (JI) in raids in East Java late last month. Indonesian National Police (INP) shot dead an eighth man during the raids. Police seized 20 bombs, 730kg of explosive material, 45kg of TNT, almost 200 detonators, more than a thousand rounds of ammunition and a cache of weapons.

Mr Lawler would not say if the arrested men had a specific target, but said the INP believed the arrested men were planning a bombing campaign directed at a range of public officials. However, he said history showed western interests were usually targets. "We need to look back at the modus operandi of these people and they have targeted western interests in the past and that's a concern," he said. "We think (they were working) within Indonesia and we're working closely with the INP and I think the thing will become clearer the further we go."

The seven suspects have been charged by the INP with terrorism-related offences and will face Indonesian courts soon.

During the raids, police found charts mapping the structure of JI which showed the group had a board. The charts showed the structure of JI, such as names and departments, had changed compared with previous intelligence on the extremist group, anti-terror police chief Brigadier General Surya Dharma said. “It is clear even to laymen that this is an organised operation,” he said in the city of Yogyakarta on Indonesia's main island of Java.
Posted by:Ebbeanter Ulemp4173

#13  Gentlemen, we don't need to make any new lists cuz Freds' already made one for us.

Feast your eyes on Thugburg.
Posted by: Mike N.   2007-04-04 20:59  

#12  We'll probably have to check off pages 2, 3 and 4 before Islam even begins to pause in its tracks. Feel free to make any suggestions of your own. The more that lists of this sort get published and circulated, the greater likelihood that they will reach the eyes of those who are on them. Just the sheer existence of such lists might begin to put a wee bit of fear into them. Then again, maybe not. These are not the most logical or sane inmates in the asylum.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-04-04 20:22  

#11  I'm OK with that list, Zen, just waiting for Pg 2
Posted by: Frank G   2007-04-04 20:09  

#10  Unless we start to target the most influential, we will end up killing 12 million people.

Absolutely spot fucking on, Mike. While I think that Rob was more referring to those who pay zakat, your own point still stands. The West must find the moral authority to begin killing the following people:

1. Ayman al-Zawahiri
2. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
3. Ayatolla Kahmeini
4. Mullah Muhammad Omar
5. Abu Bakar Ba'asyir (Bashir)
6. Moqtada Sadr,
7. Abu Hamza al-Masri,
8. Mullah Krekar (AKA: Abu Sayyid Qutb),
9. Khaled Meshal
10. Sheikh Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
11. Ismail Haniya
12. Mohammed Abbas
13. Yusuf al-Qaradawi
14. imam Ahmed Abu Laban
15. Sheikh Taj Al-Din Al-Hilali
16. imam Omar Bakri Mohammed
17. imam Abdel-Samie Mahmoud Ibrahim Moussa
18. imam Sheikh SyeSyed Mubarik Ali Gilani
19. Abdullah al-Faisal
20. Sheik Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi
21. Dr. Mahmoud al-Zahar
22. Prince Sultan Ibn Abd al-Aziz
23. Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz
24. Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz

Any inability to do so will only hasten the Muslim holocaust that I adamantly predict. Sadly, there is absolutely ZERO indication that the West will ever understand the influential role these charismatic and persuasive individuals play in high context Muslim societies or the terrorist financing and acts that result from their activities.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-04-04 19:55  

#9  Furthermore, it's a war. People die in a war.

Unless we start to target the most influential, we will end up killing 12 million people. Look how many we have killed already. What's your guess for the next 20 years or so?
Posted by: Mike N.   2007-04-04 19:27  

#8  Rob, the moneymen that fund terrorism have to either be locked up for good or die. Extradition is not plausible is most cases. That leaves one option. It's not my fault that there's so many people funding terror.

Unless you would like to try to talk them out of funding terror, we likely have one option.

And whoa Nelly! On the 12 million dead muzzies. Unless you're taking my comment to literally mean kill every cashier at the coffee shop that touch the money, we don't need to off that many moneymen.
Posted by: Mike N.   2007-04-04 19:24  

#7  tw, a good chunk of terrorist change, including some of Osama's has a Swiss passport.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-04-04 12:47  

#6  start with some swiss bankers

Don't be absurd, Pliny Cleager9233. The Islamofascists are being funded by Saudi moneymen, Pakistan's ISI, and Iran.
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-04-04 12:27  

#5  Anyone who converts to islam should do so under penalty of death.
Posted by: JohnQC   2007-04-04 12:19  

#4  You realize that would make the Holocaust pale in comparison?

So what? Do you realize that global Muslim ascendancy would likely result in the death of half this planet's entire population? That's a mere 500 times the number who perished in the Holocaust. I keep taking a beating for predicting the Muslim holocaust and I'll take more lashings here if that's what required to get it clear.

There needs to be a top down purge through successive ranks of terrorist operatives, indoctrination clerics and the financeers of Islamic terrorism. This process needs to continue until every single person on earth who supports the imposition of sharia law is dead or dieing.

Australia's refusal to grant entry for Sheik Bilal Philips has made me realize that any and all who support imposition of sharia law need to be offed pronto. Sharia law must be deemed a direct and totally egregious violation of human rights such that it cannot be installed even by a democratic process of popular vote.

This is a new line in the sand and it extends right down to every single Muslim who dwells in whatever backwater pissant hovel around this entire planet. Sharia law is an affront to all humankind and needs to be treated like the shitheap of rebottled Nazi ideological claptrap that it is.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-04-04 11:55  

#3  start with some swiss bankers
Posted by: Pliny Cleager9233   2007-04-04 10:29  

#2  I'm starting to get a little pissed over the Wests' refusal to kill those who fund terrorism.

You realize that would make the Holocaust pale in comparison?
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2007-04-04 10:16  

#1  Fabulous. You're halfway done. Now follow the money and kill everyone who touched.

I'm starting to get a little pissed over the Wests' refusal to kill those who fund terrorism. It's a bit like trying to win the war on drugs by arresting drug addicts and not the Columbian druglords.
Posted by: Mike N.   2007-04-04 01:03  

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