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Assailants Threaten Parish of Our Lady of Lebanon Church in Sydney
2014-09-19
[AnNahar] Four assailants in a vehicle bearing the flag of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original...
 (ISIL) drove past the Maronite Our Lady of Leb Church in Sydney, shouting death threats to church-goers, media reports said on Thursday.

"Four youth in an unknown car and waving the flag of ISIL drove by the church threatening church-goers with murder and with slaughtering their children," the parish custodian, Monseigneur Shora Maree, revealed.

The assailants caused panic among people as the Australian police is investigating the incident to identify the four youth.

"This is now in the hands of police who are fully investigating. Please do not respond to or circulate any other version of the truth on social media as it creates unnecessary panic," Maree said in a statement.

On Thursday, Australia's largest ever counter-terrorism raids detained 15 people and foiled a plot by Islamic State jihadists to conduct "demonstration killings", reportedly including beheading a member of the public on camera.

The Australian government believes up to 60 Australians are fighting alongside jihadists for Islamic State, while another 100 were actively working to support the movement at home.

The latest raids followed the arrests of two people last week in Brisbane who were charged with allegedly recruiting, funding and sending jihadist fighters to Syria.
Posted by:trailing wife

#13  At least I get a good laugh when I see the supermarket shelves in Tucson filled with 'BIMBO Bread'. My mind always imagines a full figured female blond as the trademark. (No disrespect meant to same.)
Posted by: borgboy   2014-09-19 20:23  

#12  My condolences borgboy.

p.s. In the 90es, after Oslo, I was sure it's the end of Israel. So, nil desperandum.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-09-19 17:02  

#11  g(rom) I'm living in the reconquista!

Tucson borgboy
Posted by: borgboy   2014-09-19 15:34  

#10  Carne Adovada y una cerveza por favor.

There is a big hole in my history concerning the reconquista, only that evictees were actively courted by pirates for their knowledge of coastlines and interior.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2014-09-19 13:10  

#9  Uno mas
Posted by: mossomo   2014-09-19 12:47  

#8  I lived in NM for six year, besoeker.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-09-19 12:09  

#7  Don't forget just plain ol cerveza and of course, bano, Grom.
Posted by: BA   2014-09-19 11:43  

#6  You may be the most interesting man in Israel if you can remember these four words, Dos Equis por favor.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-09-19 09:50  

#5  I was being facetious with borgboy, JFM.

All I remember from my Spanish is "Dos Equis verde, por favor" & "Gracias".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-09-19 09:21  

#4   Four assailants in a vehicle bearing the flag of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ISIL) drove past the Maronite Our Lady of Leb Church in Sydney, shouting death threats to church-goers

Wonder why so-called peace loving Muslims never seem able to detect and neutralize the fascists of the so-called tiny minirity.
Posted by: JFM   2014-09-19 08:42  

#3  Reading a good book on Reconquista teaches you a looooot about the oh so wonderful islamic tolerance in what is supposed their golden age.

If you cna read Spanish then in Amazon you will be able to get several good e-books.

A very good one is
http://www.amazon.com/aventura-Asturias-Historia-Esfera-Spanish-ebook/dp/B00692A95O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1411129052&sr=8-1&keywords=la+gran+aventura+del+reino+de+asturias

it is not from a historian but from a journalist but I like it because of the way it cuts into progressive non sense ("Such historian has his thepry but in fact there are very few records and none substantiates his theory"). This volume (of three) begins with a rebellion of three hundred men in Spain's far norh and how it evolved into a kingdom powerful enough to strike Sevilia into the very own heart of Muslim Spain.
Posted by: JFM   2014-09-19 08:39  

#2  Think positively my boy---look up Reconquista on wiki.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-09-19 08:03  

#1  Aussies let the cockroaches in...now they pay the price. USA is next - letting tens of thousands of Somalies in - that's not even including the other non-Somali crew in Dearborn. We, too, will pay the price. Not to mention that we'll be speaking Spanish in the near future also. We live in 'interesting times'.
Posted by: borgboy   2014-09-19 05:44  

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