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Anzac Day terror plotters were going to 'mow down a police officer with a car, and stab him to death with a knife before seizing his gun and going on a shooting rampage,' official says.

On ANZAC - this coming Saturday, 25th of April, Anzac Day, Australia will observe the 100th anniversary of the ANZAC landings in Gallipoli, Turkey. The day that Australia (and New Zealand) were baptised in blood. Both nations had only recently become independent of the UK - Australia in 1901, and New Zealand in 1907, and the First World War was the first time our troops went into battle representing their own countries (both had sent troops as part of British forces in the past), and the Gallipoli landings were the first large scale action they had seen (small forces from both Australia and New Zealand had captured some German dependencies in the Pacific during 1914). ANZAC stands for 'Australian and New Zealand Army Corps', the name of the force that landed at Gallipoli, and ANZAC Day is the most sacred in our national calendar. The 100th ANZAC Day will not surprisingly be of special significance, and a terrorist attack surrounding it would strike at the very heart of Australia.

Major parades of veterans (from later wars - obviously there are none left from the First World War) occur in all major cities, and quite a few smaller ones as well.

1 posted on 04/20/2015 3:37:53 PM PDT by naturalman1975
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To: naturalman1975

More tolerance from the Religion of Peace!


2 posted on 04/20/2015 3:39:46 PM PDT by MeganC (You can ignore reality, but reality won't ignore you.)
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To: naturalman1975
run over a police officer and then kill him with a knife.

How much planning does that take?

3 posted on 04/20/2015 4:04:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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But let's ban all firearms because obviously nobody can murder people with something other than a gun. (snicker)

I wish to h... the story about the murder of Lee Rigby by those two savages would have ended with a gun-owning Londoner emerging from his or her dwelling and blasting both of those subhumans with double ought buckshot.

5 posted on 04/20/2015 6:45:29 PM PDT by driftless2
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When I was a visiting professor in Turkey, I took advantage of a school holiday to visit Gallipoli. By coincidence, it was also Anzac Day. Very interesting to see the Aussies and New Zealanders touring the beach and the heights overlooking the beach.
6 posted on 04/21/2015 11:06:59 AM PDT by JoeFromSidney ( book, RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, available from Amazon)
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