Dispose of the carrion in Tasmania ... These cute little fellows are hungry:
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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Must be those Albanian Moonies again...
ROP types?
Execute them and toss their carcasses in the Outback.
Good work. Will wait for the details of what was thwarted.
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.
I was wondering when they were going to swoop in on this group...now to find out what the target was..
Dispose of the carrion in Tasmania ... These cute little fellows are hungry:
Use the DeadWood method.
Feed their miserable carci to swine.
My guess is those darn 'ol Amish seperatists again...
Must be those radical Methodists.
Throw 'em on the barbie and let 'em roast awhile!
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.
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.
Naw, probably those wild and crazy Amish again.
I'm starting to smell a world-wide coordination of attacks culiminating in God knows what.
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