bin Laden's terrorists in Sydney

by ozziepost 4 Replies latest jw friends

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  ozziepost

  Today's news item in Australia:
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  07:21 AEST Fri 12 Oct 2001
  
  100 identified as terror group members

  Up to 100 people living in Sydney have reportedly been identified as members of terrorist groups linked to Osama bin Laden.

  The Australian Federal Police (AFP), the Australian Secret Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and other agencies found suspects have been raising funds for the conflict by contributing to sham charities directly linked to terrorism, according to the Daily Telegraph.

  A confidential commonwealth report lists the individuals as having various degrees of affiliation with splinter factions of bin Laden's al-Qaeda group, the Egyptian Al-Jihad al-islami and the Algerian Groupe Islamic Armee.

  Some extremist members of the Sydney-based Islamic Youth Movement are listed as being of national security interest while more than a dozen men of Egyptian, Jordanian and Tunisian origin living in Australia and applying for refugee status have been linked with radical groups.

  Also under watch are residents who have travelled overseas for military training and bank accounts that are believed to be used for the distribution of funds to terrorist fronts.

  ©AAP 2001
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  Cheers,
  Ozzie

  "It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
  Anonymous
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  Mickey67214

  Thank you for the post. All of the information was really interesting.
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  ozziepost

  G'day Mickey,

  Glad to contribute.

  Tell me, what's this about the Jayhawks re-building?

  Cheers,
  Ozzie

  "It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
  Anonymous
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  unclebruce

  mmm .. lets see .. Lakemba mosque? time will tell. When I lived at Auburn the guy running the computer shop two doors down used to dissapear for several weeks now and then to go fight with the Lebanese militia. Word had it he was pleased as punch after one trip (apparrently he'd managed to "bag" an Israeli.) Many Moslems have illegal firearms etc (the only kalishmakov I've seen in sydney was carried out from under his fathers bed by a young Syrian boy)

  This stuff has been common knowledge for a very long time but our piss weak governments have done nothing abvout it except allow people complaining to be tagged as racist.

  cheers, unclebruce
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  hillary_step

  Ozzie,

  Thank you for an interesting and depressingly unsurprising post.

  Kind regards - HS

  UncleBruce,

  This stuff has been common knowledge for a very long time but our piss weak governments have done nothing abvout it except allow people complaining to be tagged as racist

  A statement that could be all too easily made in most Westernised countries. I was puzzled to learn that the man arrested on the US/Canada border, by the US border guards with a trunk full of explosives in 1999, had been living as a refugee in Montreal, Canada for six years. He had been arrested four times for burglary, was being watched by Canadian intelligence ( forgive me, but a contradiction in terms! ) was released all four times, all the while being floated by the Canadian taxpayer who paid his rent, living accomodation, medical and dental bills. He almost blew up LA airport.

  We get what we deserve! -- HS

  HS