Category: Terrorist Raids

Brandis, Injustice, Security, Terrorist Raids

We now have no-knock raids in this country. What we can look foward to.

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Finalists Announced For This Year’s NAZI Stormtrooper Of The Year Award

Posted in humor, politics

 The five finalists have been announced for the coveted NAZI Stormtrooper of the Year Award. The award is given each year to the SWAT team or individual law enforcement officer who, in the opinion of the judges, perpetrates the most heinous atrocity on an innocent American citizen during a drug raid or traffic stop. The award is sponsored by the Peace Officers Malevolent League, the National Association of Corrupt Prosecutors, the Bribable Judges Guild, and the Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club of Brighton, Illinois.

This year the awards ceremony will take place in Atlanta because of the high number of abominations carried out by officers representing that great state. The winner of this year’s competition is expected to be announced sometime this week.

Below you will find a brief synopsis of each raid and subsequent barbaric obscenity being considered by the panel of judges.

1. The Phonesavanh Family, Habersham County, Georgia

In Cornelia, Georgia on May 28—narcotics officers carried out a paramilitary no-knock SWAT raid at 3 AM at the home of Alecia Phonesavanh. The person they were looking for, Phonesavanh’s nephew Wanis Thonetheva, was suspected of making a $50 methamphetamine sale. Thonetheva, however, didn’t even live in Phonesavanh’s home and was nowhere to be found during the raid. But Phonesavanh’s 19-month-old toddler, Bounkham “Bou Bou” Phonesavanh, was home. After breaking down the door of the Phonesavanh home, one of the officers tossed a flashbang grenade—which landed in the baby’s crib, exploded and caused the toddler extensive injuries (including severe burns, disfigurement and hole in his chest that exposed his ribs). No drugs were found in the home, and Wanis Thonetheva was subsequently arrested later without incident.

To make matters worse, Habersham County officials announced in August that the county would not be giving the Phonesavanh family any assistance with the baby’s huge medical expenses. And the fact that members of the SWAT team escaped criminal charges on October 6 only encourages militarized narcotics officers to continue endangering the public.

2. David Hooks, East Dublin, Georgia

In September, methamphetamine addict Rodney Garrett confessed to stealing an SUV from the home of 59-year-old David Hooks, an East Dublin, Georgia resident who owned a construction company. Garrett claimed that he found a bag of meth in the vehicle, and the Laurens County Sheriff’s Department obtained a warrant for a no-knock raid on Hooks’ home. When the SWAT team broke into Hooks’ house on September 23, Hooks—according to attorney Mitchell Shook, who is representing Hooks’ widow—thought he was being robbed again and grabbed a gun to defend himself, although Shook said Hooks’ didn’t actually fire it. At least 16 shots were fired by the SWAT team, killing Hooks instantly. Shook told reporters, “There is no evidence that David Hooks ever fired a weapon.”

No drugs were found in the home during a 44-hour search. And there was no evidence that Hooks had any involvement in drug trafficking apart from the dubious claims of a confessed meth addict and car thief.

3. Jason Westcott, Tampa, Florida

Militarized police are a hazard all over the United States, but progressive talk radio host/attorney Mike Papantonio has said more than once that militarized police in the Deep South (who he describes as “Dixieland stormtroopers”) are especially toxic. And the Dixieland stormtroopers were feeling very trigger-happy when, on May 27, a SWAT team in Tampa, Florida carried out a no-knock raid on the home of 29-year-old Jason Westcott (who narcotics officers suspected of selling marijuana). Westcott, who evidently believed he was being robbed, grabbed his gun—and he was killed when the SWAT team opened fire. Officers found about two dollars worth of marijuana in the house.

4. Larry Lee Arman, St. Paul, Minnesota

There have been many examples of militarized narcotics officers killing pet dogs during drug raids, and the two dogs that St. Paul, Minnesota resident Larry Lee Arman owned were shot and killed when a SWAT team carried out a no-knock drug raid on his home onJuly 9. Although Arman acknowledges that he is a recreational marijuana user, he has vehemently denied any involvement in drug trafficking—and the only items found during the raid were a glass bong and marijuana remnants in a metal grinder. Camille Perry, Arman’s girlfriend, was present during the raid and said that she feared for the lives of her children. “The only thing I was thinking was my kids were going to get hit by bullets,” Perry told Minneapolis’ KMSP-TV. But gratefully, their children—unlike Bounkham “Bou Bou” Phonesavanh—were not injured.

5. Lillian Alonzo, Manchester, New Hampshire

Journalist Radley Balko (author of Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces) has often said that when paramilitary weapons are used in connection with investigations for nonviolent offenses, the chances of innocent people being injured escalate. That happened in Manchester, New Hampshire on August 27, when members of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) raided the apartment of 49-year-old Lilian Alonzo.

Although two of her daughters, Johanna Nunez and Jennifer Nunez, were suspects in the investigation, Alonzo herself was not a suspect—and neither of them lived with her. During the raid, the unarmed Alonzo was picking up a baby when two shots were fired; one of them went through her left arm and entered her left ribcage (30 stitches were needed). No drugs were found in Lilian Alonzo’s apartment.

Honorable Mention

Dwayne Perry, Cartersville, Georgia

In Cartersville, Georgia, state narcotics officers acted like soldiers in Fallujah, Al Anbar when, in early October, they invaded the back yard of Dwayne Perry. Flying overhead in a helicopter, they were searching for marijuana plants and thought they spotted some in Perry’s yard. The officers, weapons drawn, invaded the yard with a K-9 unit. But what they thought were marijuana plants turned out to be okra plants. Perry told WSB-TV: “I was scared…….They were strapped to the gills. Anything could have happened.”

Islam, Terrorist Raids

World’s deadliest jihadists are not in Iraq or Syria — they’re in Mali. Again will we blame a religion or the history of politics in the region?

FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2012 file photo, fighters from the al-Qaida-linked Islamist group Ansar Dine stand guard in Timbuktu...

World’s deadliest jihadists are not in Iraq or Syria — they’re in Mali

  • 1 hour ago October 15, 2014 1:46PM
Relatives gather by the coffins of nine UN soldiers from Niger killed in Mali this month.

Relatives gather by the coffins of nine UN soldiers from Niger killed in Mali this month. Source: AFP

THIS is the world’s most dangerous place to be right now.

It’s a region overrun by Islamic militants baying for blood — but it is not Iraq or Syria.

It’s northern Mali in West Africa.

Malian foreign affairs minister Abdoulaye Diop begged the UN to take urgent action.

Malian foreign affairs minister Abdoulaye Diop begged the UN to take urgent action. Source: AFP

French forces won back the territory from al-Qaeda in early 2013 with more than 4500 soldiers in the region, according to Foreign Policy.

But now that France has withdrawn most of its troops, Mali has become the deadliest place on the planet.

In the past 15 months alone, a floundering UN peacekeeping mission has suffered 31 deaths and 91 injuries.

Now the United Nations’ Mali envoy Bert Koenders is leaving after less than a year in the role to become the Netherlands’ foreign minister.

 

As well as rebellion and corruption, Mali faces the looming threat of Ebola.

As well as rebellion and corruption, Mali faces the looming threat of Ebola. Source: AP

He warned that the region ran “the risk of becoming the destination of hordes of terrorists”.

UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous promised that combat helicopters and drones would be sent to Mali in the coming months as it faces ambushes, rockets, mortar shells and suicide attacks.

But in the meantime, the neglected area is descending into chaos, with the spectre of Ebola also looming large in the country, which borders the epicentre of the viral epidemic, Guinea.

The UN mission’s website says Mali “has been confronted by a profound crisis with serious political, security, socio-economic, humanitarian and human rights consequences.”

Thousands marched in Malian capital Bamako last month to demand peace and protest calls f

Thousands marched in Malian capital Bamako last month to demand peace and protest calls for independence in the north by Touareg rebels. Source: AFP

It attributed the problem to years of weak infrastructure and governance, fragile social cohesion and deep-seated feelings among communities in the north of being neglected, marginalised and unfairly treated.

Mali has also faced problems with environmental degradation, climate change and economic shocks.

“These conditions were exacerbated by more recent factors of instability, including corruption, nepotism, abuse of power, internal strife and deteriorating capacity of the national army,” the UN reports.

Malian troops working with French forces to battle radical Islamic rebels in the northern

Malian troops working with French forces to battle radical Islamic rebels in the northern city of Gao in February 2013. Source: AP

Al-Qaeda took control of northern Mali in 2012 after a coup sparked by Tuareg rebels in the country’s vast desert.

The extremists sidelined the Tuaregs and had begun to advance on the capital, Bamako, when French and African troops intervened in January 2013.

Minusma, a 9000-strong UN peacekeeping mission, took over in July 2013, but has faced continuing insurgent attacks.

With French forces leaving the area, the UN is struggling to cope.

Will the world take notice of Mali’s predicament?

ASIO, Secret Police, Terrorist Raids

Anti-terrorism bill: police to get power to secretly search suspect’s house. Secret Police Just like Nth Korea makes me feel really safe

Anti-terrorism bill: police to get power to secretly search suspect’s house

  • AFP to be allowed to enter through neighbour’s property
  • Suspects do not have to be told for six months
  • Media companies protest prison term for reporting on searches
  • Lawyers tell Senate the six-month clause should be shortened
  • Federal police will gain the power to secretly search a terrorism suspect’s home, enter through an innocent neighbour’s property and impersonate people, without having to notify the subjects of the warrant for six months or more.

    A coalition of Australian media companies, in a submission published on Wednesday, argued an associated two-year jail term for unauthorised disclosure of information about such searches could further erode press freedom.

    The Law Council and civil libertarians also told the Senate inquiry into the laws that the proposed the six-month waiting period for notification should be shortened.

    The delayed notification search warrant provisions are part of the Abbott government’s second national security bill, which aims to make it easier to detain and prosecute terrorism suspects and investigate such offences.

    Currently, the Crime Act requires an officer carrying out a search warrant to provide a copy of the warrant to the occupier and to allow that person to observe the search.

    The counter-terrorism bill’s explanatory notes said the changes would allow the Australian Federal Police (AFP) “to conduct searches of a warrant premises without the occupier‘s knowledge and without notifying the occupier of the premises at the time the warrant is executed”.

    “Notice of the search will be required to be given to the occupier of a searched premise at a later date, generally within six months,” the explanatory notes said.

    This notification deadline can be extended for up to six months at a time up to a limit of 18 months, at which point further delays would require ministerial approval.

    Officers would have “the power to impersonate a person where reasonably necessary to execute the warrant”.

    “This is intended to be utilised to allay the suspicion of other residents of the area,” the explanatory notes said.

    “In addition, the executing officer or a person assisting is empowered to leave a warrant premise temporarily and subsequently re-enter to continue the execution of the warrant in certain instances where, for example, the occupier returns home and the covert nature of the warrant is at risk.

    “The executing officer or a person assisting is also able to enter the main premise via an adjoining premises, if this is expressly specified in the warrant, where it is required to avoid comprising the prevention or investigation of the relevant offences. This power is limited to accessing the warrant premise and does not allow for the search and seizure of things in that adjoining premise.”

    The government said the measure would be used in limited operational situations but it was “critical to enable covert investigation of terrorism offences”.

    It could only be used in dealing with commonwealth terrorism offences with a maximum penalty of at least seven years in jail.

    The laws are currently being considered by the bipartisan joint committee on intelligence and security, ahead of parliamentary debate later this month.

    They are the second tranche of national security changes, after the passage of a first bill expanding the powers of Australian spy agencies and criminalising publication of information about special intelligence operations.

    A coalition of media groups – including AAP, ABC, APN, ASTRA, Bauer Media, Commercial Radio Australia, Fairfax Media, FreeTV, MEAA, News Corp Australia, SBS, The Newspaper Works and West Australian News – raised concern about an offence in the second bill which also criminalises disclosures.

    Under section “3ZZHA”, people could face a two-year jail term for disclosures relating to an application for a delayed notification search warrant or the execution of such a warrant.

    There are exemptions to this offence, including for the purposes of legal proceedings, for the performance of official duties, or if the disclosure occurs after the occupiers of the premises have been officially notified.

    The media groups said the section “would see journalists jailed for undertaking and discharging their legitimate role in our modern democratic society – reporting in the public interest”.

    “Such an approach is untenable,” the submission said.

    The media groups called for the disclosure provision to be removed from the legislation, or alternatively insertion of an exemption for a news report that was in the public interest.

    The Law Council of Australia questioned the delayed notification warrant proposal, saying law enforcement agencies already had significant powers to combat serious crime.

    “Such a scheme would constitute a substantial departure from the ordinary search warrant scheme, which ensures that a person whose premises are searched is aware of the basis and the authority for the search, and is a position to challenge or make a complaint about the issue of the warrant and/or its method of execution,” the council said in a submission.

    “A covert warrant denies those individuals with the greatest interest in ensuring that the issue and execution occurs strictly in accordance with the law this ability.”

    The council suggested a number of amendments, including a shorter wait before warrant targets were notified, but acknowledged such a scheme was recommended by the former independent national security legislation monitor, Bret Walker SC.

    It said the bill already included important safeguards such as authorisation by an independent issuing officer: a federal or supreme court judge or an administrative appeals tribunal member. The legislation also set detailed reporting requirements including annual reports to be tabled in parliament.

    In a separate submission, civil liberties councils across Australia said they were concerned the scheme involved “a significant departure from established principles” and argued notification should occur no later than 90 days.

    The AFP said in its own submission that regimes for delayed notification search warrants or covert searches were “in place in NSW, Queensland, Victoria, WA and the Northern Territory, as well as Canada, the UK and the United States of America”.

    The proposal would allow the AFP “to identify and collect information about other suspects involved in terrorist activity, the proposed location of and methodology for any planned attack, and the means of communication among suspects”.

    “In addition, the proposed … regime would give the AFP the opportunity to identify and decipher any encryption techniques a suspect may be using to protect electronic communications,” the AFP submission said.

    “The ability to examine and potentially overcome these techniques without the knowledge of the suspect would facilitate the ongoing lawful monitoring of communications while preserving evidential material.

ATO, Syria/iraq, Terrorist Raids, Trust

Hawala transfers are soooo much cheaper than banks. It’s why Bitcoin works

 

Daniel Flitton for the Age writes that tracking money when coming from various sources is exceptionally difficult. Charities were particularly vulnerable to exploitation by terrorist supporters.

“Money raised legitimately can be commingled with fund raise specifically to finance terrorism”

It might be used for  family support of terrorists who died. In other words for compassionate reasons. Very few have been discovered in Australia.  A more common form of money transfer was known as “hawala” where payments are made across the globe with little documentation but a lot of trust. This form of money transfer was exceptionally common place and not used only by Muslims. Money, is transferred around the world by Indian business men on trust unregulated yet guaranteed to reach the other end. A system that would collapse in western hands.

AUS-TRAC and ASIO would be simple minded to believe terrorist organizations used simple bank to bank transfers even via third parties to terrorists. Bitcoin is a headache for them as is TOR encryption so all they seem to be  doing is catching minnows Maybe that explains why it took 100 police to arrest one suspect.

The government says that 60 Australians are suspected of being in Syria/Iraq. It’s not known if they are fighters  some are believed to be in the refugee camps. It’s why the government has put the burden of proof on them when they come home or cancelling their passports before they do. Again this young man from Seabrook may not have been supporting a US terrorist fighter at all it all. It remains ‘alleged’ or ‘suspected’.

These terrorist groups have been established for over 10 years certainly wouldn’t consider crowd sourcing as the primary means of funding these sorts operations are more likely to be state criminally funded and  the source of those funds has always been difficult to stop.

Andrew Bolt, Media, Propaganda, Terrorist Raids, Vilification

100 police to arrest one man not bent on terror. Bolt’s Bog this morning hinted at ” not tiny or unrepresentative minority” He got it wrong again

As it happened: Man charged after FBI tip-off sparks anti-terrorism raids across Melbourne suburbs of Seabrook, Kealba, Flemington, Broadmeadows and Meadow Heights

Updated 34 minutes agoTue 30 Sep 2014, 2:58pm

Man placed in police car Photo: A man is put into a police car outside a house in Seabrook during the anti-terrorism raids. (ABC News: Clare Rawlinson)
Related Story: FBI tip-off sparks Melbourne terror raids, man charged
Map: Meadow Heights 3048

A man has been charged with intentionally making funds available to a terrorist organisation, after more than 100 police officers carried out raids across five Melbourne suburbs.

The Australian Federal Police and Victoria Police conducted seven search warrants in Seabrook, Kealba, Meadow Heights, Broadmeadows and Flemington.

Following an FBI tip-off, a 23-year-old man was arrested at a Seabrook home and it will be alleged he paid for a US citizen to go and fight in Syria.

Police say they do not believe the man intended to carry out a terrorist attack on Australian soil.

Look back on how the day unfolded.

ABC, Terrorist Raids

Guess Murdoch’s boys and girls at Newscorp won’t have a problem
 

Journalists may face prison under proposed new Australian anti-terror legislation

Australian journalists reporting on terrorism could risk imprisonment under a suite of new national security laws and policies proposed by Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s government, and now backed by a key parliamentary committee. The legislation, which appears increasingly likely to be enacted, represents a chilling attack on media freedom in a progressive democracy, as Julie Posetti and Jessica Sparks

report.http://blog.wan-ifra.org/2014/09/19/journalists-may-face-prison-under-proposed-new-australian-anti-terror-legislation

Injustice, Islamophobia, Kevin Andrews, Terrorist Raids

Kevin Andrews Kept Secrets Dr Muhamed Haneef 2007. Mr Azzari will not be afforded those rights today this government has removed them

Mohammed Haneef sues ex-immigration minister Kevin Andrews for defamation

Muhamed Haneef

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dr
Muhamed Haneef
Born 29 September 1979 (age 34)
India
Citizenship Indian
Occupation Doctor of Medicine
Known for Accused of terrorism, and subsequent detention
Home town Mudigere
Religion Islam
Criminal charge
 Terrorism
Spouse(s) Firdous Arshiya
Parents Shami Khaleel (father)

Muhamed Haneef (born 29 September 1979) is an Indian doctor who was accused of aiding terrorists, and left Australia upon cancellation of his visa amid great political controversy.

Haneef was arrested on 2 July 2007 at Brisbane Airport, Brisbane, Australia on suspicion of terror-related activities. He is the second cousin once removed of Kafeel Ahmed and Sabeel Ahmed, the operatives in the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack. Haneef’s ensuing detention became the longest without charge in recent Australian history, which caused great controversy in Australia and India.

Haneef was released when the Director of Public Prosecutions withdrew its charge on 27 July 2007,[1][2] whereby his passport was returned and he departed Australia voluntarily on 29 July 2007. Hannef’s visa cancellation was overturned by the Federal Court on 21 August 2007, with the decision being reiterated by the full bench of the court on 21 December 2007, resulting in Haneef having his Australian visa returned.[3][4]

In December 2010, Haneef returned to Australia to seek damages for loss of income, interruption of his professional work, and emotional distress. He was awarded compensation from the Australian government. The amount of compensation awarded was not disclosed, but was described by sources as “substantial”.[5]

2007 Deja Vous

Humour, Islamophobia, Rabid Rabbott, Terrorist Raids, Tony Abbott

Rabid Rabbott’s Raid. Who let the dog’s out. He’s now talking up battle creep in Iraq.

                      Ban the effen gun not the bloody burqa idiot

The photo used in a Facebook post is believed to be of Afghanistan's first female policewoman.

Australian Defense league does. Andrew Bolt  does

There’s a lot of ‘Chatter’ heard about beheadings,only by the press.  One phone call then silence as it’s an ” operational matter Everything this government does is an ‘operational matter’ that’s terror. Today Rabbott is alluding that battle creep in Iraq is possible the man is INSANE

 

An Australian Federal Policet officer talks with a suspect who was detained during a raid on a house in western Sydney.

When you think this Rabbott is the surprise

your always dissapointed but it’s never good.

Forget Humanitarian Aid  Rabbott’s Raid is on

 

Rabid Rabbott let the dog’s out

Australian Shame, Beheading, Islamophobia, Media, Terrorist Raids, Tony Abbott

Press Laziness Press Propoganda The AGE pages 1-5 some excerpts show a very lopsided story

http://media.theage.com.au/national/selections/terrorism-raids-spark-muslim-protest-5789086.html

ASIO officers raided homes across Sydney and Brisbane arresting 15 people some as young as 17 or 19 who were later released…..The AGE

The raids were conducted on kids however the papers really made it sound as if it was a very organized gang if so why were all released and no charges laid?

Azari 22 was charged was charged Thursday with conspiracy to prepare for a terrorist attack. A second Sydneyman 24 from Merrylands was charged late on Thursday on fire-arms and ammunition charges. He was released on bail….The AGE

Azari has legal Aid and doesn’t have the funds to be bailed he has been arrested on the basis of one phone call.

‘It is understood Barylei knew one of the men arrested from school’….The AGE

If knowing Barylei in school is an indictable offense why hasn’t the school been arrested the reporter has nothing to write about and is throwing things in for the sake of the story

“They would use things like public phone boxes. They would avoid talking in cars all that sort of stuff”….The AGE

“while beheading was not specifically mentioned in the alleged phone call on Tuesday- one of several believed to have taken place between Baryalei and Azari- it is assumed that this would have been the method of killing” The…AGE

This is the most salient piece of news why is beheading playing such a large role in the reporting when it was never specifically mentioned. It has been the central feature of the police and media reports and has never had a place.

“the Commonwealth Prosecutor said the charges were very very serious and involved an unusual level of fanaticism”…one intercepted phone call between May8 and September 18 to which Mr Azari was party”

The only thing the Prosecutor is saying is the charges he’s drawn up are very serious the evidence however seems very very weak

 

“There has been immediate reaction to a clear and imperative danger”

“Mr Boland hired by Legal Aid NSW for Mr Azari did not apply for bail …. the allegation is based on one phone call of very limited compass the federal police have put foward”

One phone call and he is the only sucker who isn’t rich enough to apply for bail

Australians will have absorbed the news of planned beheadings of random citizens with many feelings. All will be grateful ASIO with state and Federal Police appears to have prevented an attack……even in Australia fanatical sectarianism poses a clear and present danger”

There was no news of beheadings but Mark Kenny is not going tell you that it would spoil an otherwise good story.

The Australian Defense League ” Let’s make our presence known and get there (Lakemba) in force against these bastard terrorists

The Australian KKK is itching to come out an play. Jesus want’s them to nail a Muslim to a cross

A woman was man handled and beaten to the face her 14 year old son saw this tried to help. He was pushe into the wall he all most passed out

Nothing but this about police violence on a 14 year old they just recruited to ISIS

The whole saga is disgusting and has put a target on the back of Australians traveling through Muslim countries. Indonesia is our nearest neighbor thank you TEAM ABBOTT

Australia's Shame, Propaganda, Terrorist Raids

Lights Camera Action Propaganda . Watch your mother & 14 year old son violently threatened . Outcome = Resentment

Islamic State wants Australians to attack Muslims: terror expert

It’s in the interests of Islamic State for Muslims in Australia to be attacked or for their mosques to be attacked, because doing so would help divide the Australian community. But we should be very clear…

Stating the obvious is well and good. It’s very important to remember, whether here in Australia or overseas – it’s only a tiny minority of the Muslim community that are ever involved in any kind of extreme action. The vast majority are decent, ordinary people, who shouldn’t be attacked, and who should feel as respected and protected as any other member of the community.

The most effective form of good policing happens at an individual community level: having police officers on the ground, at local stations, involved with and knowing the Islamic community, and making sure that senior members of those community know that should anything happen – such as an attack on a mosque – that the police  take that seriously. It’s really important for police to protect the Islamic community. If they don’t, there’s a risk that people will feel isolated and that’s not in Australia’s best interests.

As for Islamic State, if they or their sympathizers can arrange a situation where we see parts of the Australian community pitted against each other, then that’s exactly what they want. That’s the kind of situation that breeds more sympathy for their cause, so that disenchanted young people end up either going overseas or else taking actions in their own country

Today we saw  AFP,ASIO and Police 800 of them raid,  televise and proudly advertise a one way action the total opposite of the advise offered by the UK  with a longer history a much bigger Muslim population than we have, with a far larger population overall. The above community approach not generally applied by our security forces here has managed to keep British terrorism to 7 instances over 8 years. It also needs to be pointed out that no instance was discovered by increased security but rather by an aware public noticing something odd. The Australian approach seems an antithesis to the British who have had years of experience with sectarian conflict in Ireland. Yesterday seems little more than a publicity exercise with a high potential to backfire.

 

Media, Propaganda, Terrorist Raids, Tony Abbott

Abbott makes a statement which and no attempt to explain why so much press was in attendance.

                     How much fruit salad does it take to impress us

600 police the whole of the deployment sent to Iraq needed to arrest one 22year old

Tony Abbott says the intelligence received is that an Australian “who is apparently quite senior in ISIL” was directing networks back in Australia to perform “demonstration killings”.

This is not just suspicion, this is intent and that’s why the police and security agencies decided to act in the way they have.
Court in Brisbane has adjourned a bail hearing for a man accused
of aiding the terrorist group Jabhat al-Nusra. However it is quite possible that this group an enemy of ISIL and Assad will become an Australian/US ally in the fight against ISIL in Syria.
We will arm the FSA The Free Syrian Army who are inexperienced give them 3 weeks training in Saudi Arabia and send them into fight experienced fighters isn’t that sending lambs to slaughter. Jabhat al Nusra has already offered to deal with ISIL in Syria and is a most likely ally.

I’m sorry but what the fuck’s going on? Other than insuring the build up of resentment here and in the region. Is that the sign of intelligent leadership?
Abbott, ASIO/MURDOCH ADVERTISING AGENCY, Terrorist Raids

How to piss Australians off. Asylum Seeker Invasion, Terrorist Dens , Crusading Secret Police, We are Watching You. The walls have ears

Not Sunny if your Sunni it would seem. Indonesia is Sunni. This will rebound Mr Abbott. No finesse whatsoever just jackboots and a big show. Why are all the cameras there? Why are all the major Print Media there? ASIO/Murdoch  Advertising Agency for Tony Abbott.

A woman talks to police at a house in Guildford.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/terrorism-raids-carried-out-across-sydney-brisbane-20140918-10igft.html

Police are carrying out counter-terrorism raids across Sydney and Brisbane.

More than 10 arrests have been made, police said.
Police have taken part in terror raids across western Sydney.

Police have taken part in terror raids across western Sydney. Photo: NSW Police Media Unit

NSW Police said the operation on Thursday morning also involved the Australian Federal Police.

In Sydney, officers have raided properties in Beecroft, Bellavista, Guildford, Merrylands, Northmead, Wentworthville, Marsfield, Westmead, Castle Hill, Revesby, Bass Hill and Regents Park.

Three search warrants were also carried out in Brisbane’s south – in Upper Mount Gravatt East, Logan, and Underwood.

Do you know more? Email us, message us on Twitter @smh.

Police at the scene of one of the raids in Guildford.

Police at the scene of one of the raids in Guildford. Photo: Nick Moir

Underwood is the same suburb in which police raided an Islamic bookstore last week.

Hundreds of police officers are believed to be involved in the operation.

Guildford resident Mark Anderson had just got up for work at 4.30am when he saw a helicopter circling the area and shining a light on Bursill Street.
A number of houses across Sydney have been raided.

A number of houses across Sydney have been raided. Photo: Nick Moir

He also heard police on a loudspeaker yelling at someone to come outside a home on Bursill Street.

“I heard them calling out to him to ‘Come out!’ for about 10 to 15 minutes. I don’t know if he was too agreeable. I didn’t really understand a name. It was pretty intense,” Mr Anderson said.

“It was a pretty big deal at our place. Early last night a helicopter hovered over here for a bit as well, then this morning it all kicked off.”
A woman talks to police at a house in Guildford.

A woman talks to police at a house in Guildford. Photo: Nick Moir

Mr Anderson said he attempted to drive to work just before 5am but found himself in the middle of the police cordon.

“I pulled out of my driveway and turned to go to the bowling club, and a black armoured truck was there,” he said.

“I realised I was a bit inside the cordon. A cop car was blocking Railway Terrace into Bursill Street, they had blocked off right to the roundabout. The helicopter was shining a light on a house near the bowling club.”
Ten people have been arrested after raids across western Sydney.

Ten people have been arrested after raids across western Sydney. Photo: Nick Moir

Despite the terror raids so close to his home, Mr Anderson said he was not concerned for his safety.

“I’m confident the cops know what they’re doing. I’d be surprised if I knew something before they did,” he said.

Bass Hill resident Chris said he was woken by a helicopter hovering over his home at 4am. He went outside to find up to 40 police officers swarming his street.

“I went out to be a stickybeak, as you do, and I was told quite promptly: ‘Go, go back inside, do not come out’,” he told Triple M.

“Looking around, they had blocked off the road. It was only six doors down. It was pretty surreal.”

Last week, Australia’s terror threat level was raised from medium to high, meaning a terror attack on home soil was now officially considered “likely”.

The nation’s outgoing spy chief ASIO Director General David Irvine said an attack could manifest itself in a “Bali-style attack, although Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Friday that the agencies had not detected any “particular plots”.

Uthman Badar of Hizb ut-Tahrir Australia, which describes itself as a political party whose ideology is Islam, said in a statement: “The AFP and NSW Police this morning conducted heavy-handed dawn raids involving hundreds of police in Sydney’s north-west suburbs as well as in Brisbane.

“As late as last week both the Prime Minister and outgoing ASIO boss David Irvine confirmed that there was no intelligence of any plans to carry out attacks in Australia. A few days later and we wake up to heavy-handed raids and talk of a ‘terrorist network’ planning attacks.

“The timing of these raids is suspect indeed. With the ‘anti-terror’ laws, which hit a wall in the community, to be tabled to Parliament next week and with ‘military intervention’ imminent in Iraq, these raids are very timely for the government and its propaganda campaign for the same.”

Further updates were expected later on Thursday morning.
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