About time an Aussie city was Nuked
Phoney Maroney and Tricky Nixon don't know WHEN or WHERE - so they must be PRE-CRIME PRE-COG psychic Police!
Raids foil terrorist attack: police chiefs ( ABC news au )
The police chiefs of New South Wales and Victoria say overnight raids have foiled a terrorist plot.
Sixteen people have been arrested in raids conducted by more than 400 police on a number of suburbs in Sydney and Melbourne.
New South Wales Police Commissioner Ken Moroney says a terrorist attack has been foiled.
"I am satisfied that we have disrupted what I would regard as the final stages of a terrorist attack or the launch of a terrorist attack in Australia," he said.
"We will continue our investigations both at a Commonwealth and state level to identify those that may be related to those persons now under investigation."
Victoria's Police Commissioner, Christine Nixon, agrees that police have prevented a major terrorist attack from occurring.
"We believe that they were planning an operation," she said.
"We weren't exactly sure when nor, more importantly, what they planned to damage or do harm to.
"[But] it was a point where, when we had sufficient evidence, we were able then to move." ( Under the Howard Nazi war regime's just passed ' enabling acts ' that abolish the rule of law )
Commissioner Nixon says the threat was not against the Commonwealth Games.
"The matters we are talking to them about are not related to the Commonwealth Games," she said.
"We have been aware of these issues for a long period of time ... it's been taken into account in our planning for the Commonwealth Games.
"The community knows that both resources at state level and federal level are working to ensure we have the safest Games."
Amended laws
Commissioner Nixon says some of the charges laid against those arrested in the raids have been made possible by a change to existing anti-terrorism laws that was rushed through federal Parliament last week.
"Some of that is related to that amendment that occurred," she said.
"But this is a long-term operation. It isn't just something that happened last week.
"We believe that we were moving to a point where we had sufficient evidence to charge these people with a range of offences."
Commissioner Nixon has praised the cooperation of intelligence agencies, and state and federal police.
"The security around it, the secrecy around this operation I think has been incredibly important," she said.
Imam arrested
One of those arrested in Melbourne was Imam Abdul Nacer Benbrika, also known as Abu Bakr.
The Algerian-born Australian's home has been raided by ASIO at least twice this year.
He is said to be the spiritual leader of those arrested.
His lawyer, Rob Stary, says eight of the nine people arrested in Victoria have been charged with being members of a unnamed proscribed organisation.
"One other person's been charged with directing members of a proscribed organisation," Mr Stary said.
In other developments:
* The premiers of New South Wales and Victoria say new laws passed by federal Parliament last week assisted in today's raids. (Full Story)
* The Muslim community has reacted with surprise at the overnight counter-terrorism raids, in which 16 people have been arrested. (Full Story)
* A man has been shot during what is believed to have been a counter-terrorism raid at Green Valley in Sydney's south-west. (Full Story)
* Former New South Wales premier Bob Carr says Australia needs to prepare for mass evacuations should there be a nuclear terrorist attack. (Full Story)
Australia ill-prepared for nuclear terrorist attack: Carr
Former New South Wales premier Bob Carr says Australia needs to prepare for mass evacuations should there be a nuclear terrorist attack.
Mr Carr gave a speech in Melbourne last night that compared Australia's capabilities with American efforts during Hurricane Katrina.
Mr Carr says Australia needs to be better prepared.
"We've got to be ready with plans that tell us when it's safe to go back, when radiation levels can be scrubbed down to acceptable levels, how you rebuild the core of one of our cities from scratch and how you handle evacuation, how you manage huge displaced populations," he said.
He says Australia has never really been tested.
Mr Carr says there is no doubt terrorists have attempted to get hold of nuclear weapons.
"They've probed access to nuclear bombs, there are said to be literally thousands of bombs or concentrations of material under relatively loose security under the old Soviet Union and in Pakistan to name two countries with less than gold standard security," he said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200511/s1499964.htm
Raids foil terrorist attack: police chiefs ( ABC news au )
The police chiefs of New South Wales and Victoria say overnight raids have foiled a terrorist plot.
Sixteen people have been arrested in raids conducted by more than 400 police on a number of suburbs in Sydney and Melbourne.
New South Wales Police Commissioner Ken Moroney says a terrorist attack has been foiled.
"I am satisfied that we have disrupted what I would regard as the final stages of a terrorist attack or the launch of a terrorist attack in Australia," he said.
"We will continue our investigations both at a Commonwealth and state level to identify those that may be related to those persons now under investigation."
Victoria's Police Commissioner, Christine Nixon, agrees that police have prevented a major terrorist attack from occurring.
"We believe that they were planning an operation," she said.
"We weren't exactly sure when nor, more importantly, what they planned to damage or do harm to.
"[But] it was a point where, when we had sufficient evidence, we were able then to move." ( Under the Howard Nazi war regime's just passed ' enabling acts ' that abolish the rule of law )
Commissioner Nixon says the threat was not against the Commonwealth Games.
"The matters we are talking to them about are not related to the Commonwealth Games," she said.
"We have been aware of these issues for a long period of time ... it's been taken into account in our planning for the Commonwealth Games.
"The community knows that both resources at state level and federal level are working to ensure we have the safest Games."
Amended laws
Commissioner Nixon says some of the charges laid against those arrested in the raids have been made possible by a change to existing anti-terrorism laws that was rushed through federal Parliament last week.
"Some of that is related to that amendment that occurred," she said.
"But this is a long-term operation. It isn't just something that happened last week.
"We believe that we were moving to a point where we had sufficient evidence to charge these people with a range of offences."
Commissioner Nixon has praised the cooperation of intelligence agencies, and state and federal police.
"The security around it, the secrecy around this operation I think has been incredibly important," she said.
Imam arrested
One of those arrested in Melbourne was Imam Abdul Nacer Benbrika, also known as Abu Bakr.
The Algerian-born Australian's home has been raided by ASIO at least twice this year.
He is said to be the spiritual leader of those arrested.
His lawyer, Rob Stary, says eight of the nine people arrested in Victoria have been charged with being members of a unnamed proscribed organisation.
"One other person's been charged with directing members of a proscribed organisation," Mr Stary said.
In other developments:
* The premiers of New South Wales and Victoria say new laws passed by federal Parliament last week assisted in today's raids. (Full Story)
* The Muslim community has reacted with surprise at the overnight counter-terrorism raids, in which 16 people have been arrested. (Full Story)
* A man has been shot during what is believed to have been a counter-terrorism raid at Green Valley in Sydney's south-west. (Full Story)
* Former New South Wales premier Bob Carr says Australia needs to prepare for mass evacuations should there be a nuclear terrorist attack. (Full Story)
Australia ill-prepared for nuclear terrorist attack: Carr
Former New South Wales premier Bob Carr says Australia needs to prepare for mass evacuations should there be a nuclear terrorist attack.
Mr Carr gave a speech in Melbourne last night that compared Australia's capabilities with American efforts during Hurricane Katrina.
Mr Carr says Australia needs to be better prepared.
"We've got to be ready with plans that tell us when it's safe to go back, when radiation levels can be scrubbed down to acceptable levels, how you rebuild the core of one of our cities from scratch and how you handle evacuation, how you manage huge displaced populations," he said.
He says Australia has never really been tested.
Mr Carr says there is no doubt terrorists have attempted to get hold of nuclear weapons.
"They've probed access to nuclear bombs, there are said to be literally thousands of bombs or concentrations of material under relatively loose security under the old Soviet Union and in Pakistan to name two countries with less than gold standard security," he said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200511/s1499964.htm
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