Posted on 12/12/2005 7:20:29 AM PST by indcons
CHILLING new text messages inciting more violence were being traced by a police taskforce last night as Australia reeled at the nation's worst race riots.
Police were investigating a series of disturbing SMS messages calling on young Arabs to start another round of attacks at Sydney's Cronulla Beach next Sunday.
"All Arabs unite as one, we will never back down to anyone the aussie's (sic) will feel the full force of the arabs as one 'brothers in arms'," the SMS said.
"Unite now lets show them who's boss "destroy" everything gather at cronulla . . . spread the message to all Arabs."
Police were braced for more violence last night after tension between surfie groups and Lebanese youths spiralled out of control.
A 5000-strong alcohol-fuelled mob, some waving flags and chanting racist slogans, chased and beat people of Middle Eastern appearance at Cronulla beach on Sunday afternoon.
Later in the night, a wave of violence spread to Maroubra and Brighton-le-Sands, with two people stabbed and more than 100 cars badly damaged in apparent revenge attacks.
Thirty-one people were injured, including two ambulance officers and six police officers.
NSW Police Commissioner Ken Moroney condemned the violence as the worst he had seen in 40 years as a policeman.
"Never in my working life did I ever imagine a mob, a drunken mob, turning on a woman, an innocent woman who happened to stray into their path," he said.
As Sydney braced for more riots:
A POLICE strike force was set up to hunt down those responsible.
A TOTAL 16 people had been charged with 42 offences as of last night.
WHITE supremacists were blamed for inciting the riot.
PRIME Minister John Howard said the violence was sickening, but said he did not believe Australia was a racist nation.
Police were checking hospitals for a man with possible burns to his legs after an Australian flag was torn from an RSL club and set alight.
A witness said the man spat on the flag, then stomped and urinated on it before dousing it with lighter fluid and setting it on fire.
Two police officers described how they saved two young men from being murdered by the mob on Sunday afternoon.
Sgt Craig Campbell said he had no doubt two young men cowering inside a train at Cronulla railway station would have been killed if he had not held off the mob with his baton.
"If I hadn't made my way on to the train the way I did the two gentlemen inside would have received more substantial injuries, if not possibly have been deceased," he said.
Sen-Constable Gary Smith told of another terrifying incident and how two Middle Eastern youths thanked him for saving their lives.
"I was working my point and all of a sudden the crowd rushed at me," he said.
"The crowd surrounded one. I felt he was in grave danger. Once I got him in the police car, he thanked me for saving his life."
The riot was fuelled by racist text messages which began circulating following an attack on two Cronulla lifeguards last week, which locals blamed on Lebanese youths.
Maroubra surf group leader Koby Abberton met Lebanese community leader Keysar Trad last night in a bid to stop the violence.
"The events of the past two days have been extremely distressing and can't continue," said Abberton, of the Bra Boys.
"Everyone who comes to Maroubra Beach and is respectful of the locals is welcome, regardless of ethnicity."
The Bra Boys said they were not involved in Sunday's riots.
A full-time police riot squad will become operational in January -- but critics say it will be too late to deal with an anticipated running battle in Sydney's beachside suburbs in coming weeks.
Cronulla locals yesterday criticised what they described as a "softly-softly" approach by police.
Two bottle shops in Cronulla were asked to close their doors about 5pm on Sunday after the alcohol-fuelled violence had already peaked.
Youths wandered drunk with bottles of beer in alcohol-free zones without facing any police action.
Police Minister Carl Scully said white supremacists were involved in the Cronulla riots.
"There appears to be an element of white supremacists and they really have no place in mainstream Australian society, those sort of characters belong in Berlin 1930s," he said.
Muslim youth spokesman Mustafa Kara-Ali, a member of the Federal Government's Muslim Community Reference Group, also blamed white supremacists.
I think he is the only one can save them all form a good old fashioned beating in Australia though :-)
The muzzies are always gonna lose until they wise up to the fact that it really, really pisses God off when somebody calls him "allah".
No bias in this article.
LOL
that would be called accurately reporting the facts and Lord knows we can't have that, Islam being a religion of peace and stuff...
Supid white racists + stupid arab racists = lots of blood in the streets.
The Endless Summer? The Beach Boys? Frankie & Annette? No? < sigh > I guess the 60s are over then
I wouldn't call them stupid white racists. Arabs are looting and burning. They have every right to stand up resist. Too bad the French weren't willing to do that.
All of this PC denial of how Muslims behave and what their true intentions are by the media and various governments in the West including our own reminds me precisely of the denials about national socialism and facism in Europe in the years leading up to WWII.
I will NEVER EVER forget those mullahs with Bush at the National Cathedral after 9-11....NEVER FRIGGIN EVER.
We still have the will somewhere. Meanwhile we are asking our young folks to die nation building while we ignore a clear and present danger at home.
There is a disconnect over the fear of being called bigot or racist over Islam that is going to cost us dearly in the long run.
...Police Minister Carl Scully said white supremacists were involved in the Cronulla riots.....
Toss this clown out the window. This is a terror war instigated by the murderous adherents of the pedophile murderer, aka Mohhamed.
"Never in my working life did I ever imagine a mob, a drunken mob, turning on a woman, an innocent woman who happened to stray into their path," he said."
The man is an idiot. He's actually *had* "mobs (gangs) turn on a woman, an innocent woman who happened to stray into their path" and get beaten and gang raped, yet that doesn't faze him though it's happened repeatedly but he condemns the Aussie civilians for getting fed up with such situations.
SEE, SEE, SEE...It's evil white males oppressing our minority brethren...
Well, they have every right to gut the idiots raping their women, but to respond in by mob attacking anyone who looks arab in a drunken stuper is a bit counterproductive.
I know what you mean.....as an Indian, I suppose I would look like an Arab too for somebody who is drunk enough.
That's good, and fits right in with their "thinking". It will happen.
What's a Donk. HaHaHa
Check this out:
Much more news here;
http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14325
Posts from Aussies starting right before the riots to the present time.
Greant link...thanks
I like this one:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/12/11/1134235944844.html
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