Presbyterians Denied Peaceful Venting Opportunity To Express Grievances
As always the Evil Oppressors over-react
Massive anti-terrorism operations in NSW and Queensland:
7News reporter Robert Ovadia has received information about an alleged plot to kidnap a random person from the streets of Martin Place in Sydney’s CBD, execute them by beheading …
AFP swooped in pre-dawn raids to disrupt plans to commit a violent attack on Australian soil.
They executed 25 search warrants in Sydney, arresting 15 people, one of which has been charged with serious terror offences.
Click for video. Around 500 officers were involved in the raids:
Hundreds of ASIO and heavily armed police officers swooped in anti-terrorism raids to prevent a mass casualty shooting in Sydney and possible beheadings.
Police backed up by armoured cars arrested dozens of people in a dozen separate pre-dawn operations across NSW and Brisbane.
The combined effort amounted to the largest anti-terrorism operation in Australian history – and senior officers revealed the attack by a suspected terrorist cell was imminent.
Further to come following court appearances later today.UPDATE:
One of the men arrested in Thursday morning’s anti-terrorism raids in Sydney has appeared in court on a charge of conspiracy to commit a terrorist act …
Prosecutors allege he was part of a plan to commit an act to “shock, horrify and terrify” the community.
UPDATE II:
Mr Abbott was briefed on the police raid on Wednesday night, which included intelligence that public beheadings were planned. “The exhortations, quite direct exhortations, were coming from an Australian who is apparently quite senior in ISIL to networks of support back in Australia to conduct demonstration killings here in this country,” he told reporters.
“So 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.”
The raids follow investigation of a Lakemba-based company over $9 million in possible Islamic State funding.
Naturally, some folks are upset that they weren’t given advance warning of the raids
UPDATE III. A press release from Hizb ut-Tahrir spokesidiot Uthman Badar:
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.
Shockingly, even CNN is covering this.
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Good on Australia.
Just THINK if they were “ISLAMIC”!! Holy CRAP. It’d be TERRIFYING.
Do they have gun restriction laws in Australia? The ISIS types don’t like it when their prey can shoot back. Their specialty is the weak and the defenseless.
Gun control is rampant Down Under, Syd. The sort of measures that would make any nanny stater proud.
Gun control AND BLASPHEMY. You don’t DARE call these goat flockers…goat flockers. Or OFF WITH YOUR HEAD. And the State does it FOR them.
THS, of course this has nothing to do with Islam.
I believe I shall be referring to Uthman Badar as Utter Dumbass from now on.
This is just appalling. I hope the news of this plot comes as a kick in the mental pants to all those “play nice and everything will be fine” types.