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Australia foils major attack
Reuters ^
Posted on 11/07/2005 1:12:16 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Australia foils major attack Mon Nov 7, 2005 03:52 PM ET
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian authorities foiled what they believed to be a large-scale terrorist attack, arresting 15 people during raids in the country's two biggest cities of Sydney and Melbourne, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported on Tuesday.
"I am satisfied that we have disrupted what I would regard as the final stages of a large-scale terrorist attack, or the launch of a large-scale terrorist attack here in Australia," New South Wales Police Commissioner Ken Moroney told ABC radio.
The arrests come less than a week after Prime Minster John Howard said Australia received intelligence about a "terrorist threat."
Australia, a staunch U.S. ally with troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, has never suffered a major peacetime attack on home soil. The country has been on medium security alert since shortly after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
Moroney said more than 400 officers were involved in the overnight raids of 15 homes in Sydney's southwest, resulting in the arrest of six males.
"They are currently being interviewed by police and my expectation is that those persons variously will appear in Sydney courts this morning."
Nine arrests were made in Melbourne, the ABC reported.
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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: australia; gwot; terrorattack; terrorists; trop; waronterror; wot
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To: Sub-Driver
No mention of the nationality of these folks, nor their religion.
Must be those Albanian Moonies again...
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posted on
11/07/2005 1:14:47 PM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
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To: Izzy Dunne
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posted on
11/07/2005 1:15:52 PM PST
by
Sub-Driver
(Unelect All NJ Politicians....)
To: Sub-Driver
The arrests come less than a week after Prime Minster John Howard said Australia received intelligence about a "terrorist threat."
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How can this be? Those poor wrongly accused people did nothing wrong?
I am sure this is just another case of racial profiling, WORKING!
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posted on
11/07/2005 1:16:02 PM PST
by
downtoliberalism
("A coalition partner must do more than just express sympathy, a coalition partner must perform,")
To: Sub-Driver
Execute them and toss their carcasses in the Outback.
To: Sub-Driver
Good work. Will wait for the details of what was thwarted.
To: Sub-Driver
15, even with nothing but sidearms, could do a lot of damage. Maybe even more than could be done with a couple of truckbombs, especially in a country that has been disarmed.
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posted on
11/07/2005 1:18:04 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: jmc1969; Cap Huff
I was wondering when they were going to swoop in on this group...now to find out what the target was..
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posted on
11/07/2005 1:19:36 PM PST
by
Dog
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Execute them and toss their carcasses in the Outback. Dispose of the carrion in Tasmania ... These cute little fellows are hungry:
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posted on
11/07/2005 1:20:01 PM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Use the DeadWood method.
Feed their miserable carci to swine.
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posted on
11/07/2005 1:21:31 PM PST
by
TASMANIANRED
(Conservatives are from earth. Liberals are from Uranus.)
To: Izzy Dunne
My guess is those darn 'ol Amish seperatists again...
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posted on
11/07/2005 1:22:52 PM PST
by
Abathar
(Proudly catching hell for posting without reading since 2004)
To: Izzy Dunne
Must be those radical Methodists.
To: linkinpunk
Throw 'em on the barbie and let 'em roast awhile!
To: Semper Paratus
Most likely a planned bombing attack on soft targets - in Melbourne, it is believed the stock exchange was a likely target (which is incidentally right opposite what is Melbourne's tallest completed building (there is a building that is under construction that is already taller) the Rialto, which there is evidence to indicate was a target in the early plans for September 11 (there's some evidence that originally they planned to hit buildings in a number of countries and eventually decided to focus only on their main targets with a better chance of success). There's also evidence that a suburban train station was a potential target.
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posted on
11/07/2005 1:28:58 PM PST
by
naturalman1975
(Sure, give peace a chance - but si vis pacem, para bellum.)
To: Sub-Driver
HMMMMMM. The Australians use 400 troops to raid 15 houses. They aren't screwing around like the Fwench sending 400 twerps with rubber bullets to control an entire neighborhood.
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posted on
11/07/2005 1:29:40 PM PST
by
308MBR
(If we ain't supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?)
To: Izzy Dunne
Must be those Albanian Moonies again...Naw, probably those wild and crazy Amish again.
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posted on
11/07/2005 1:30:13 PM PST
by
processing please hold
(Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
To: naturalman1975
I'm starting to smell a world-wide coordination of attacks culiminating in God knows what.
To: Izzy Dunne
It doesn't say what they were going to do ...I'm glad though, that they caught and stopped the freaks.
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posted on
11/07/2005 1:36:31 PM PST
by
nmh
(Intelligent people believe in Intelligent Design (God).)
To: Sub-Driver
I wonder how much heat ABC took from a plot point very similtar to this in their series Lost when it aired. There is a subplot in the series Lost about breaking up a cell of Muslim terrorists in Australia. It's the reason given for why the Iraqi character was in Australia, the starting point of the doomed airliner in the show.
To: Sub-Driver
And how will "those persons variously ...appear in Sydney courts..."? How could one appear variously? Does it mean piecemeal? Will they bring the perp's left leg into the court in the morning, and the upper torso after the lunch-break?
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posted on
11/07/2005 1:39:30 PM PST
by
GSlob
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