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AUSTRALIAN POLICE SAID Saturday they had foiled an alleged terror bomb plot reportedly planned for Mother’s Day, arresting a Melbourne teenager and detonating three suspected explosive devices.
Australian Federal Police (AFP) and their Victoria state counterparts raided a home in the north Melbourne suburb of Greenvale on Friday, arresting and charging a 17-year-old male.
“We’ll allege the teenager was undertaking preparations to undertake a terrorism act as well as possessing things that relate to the commission of a terrorism act,” AFP Deputy Commissioner Mike Phelan said.
“These are extremely serious offences and they did involve the use of improvised explosive devices.”
Police said they had seen reports suggesting that an attack was planned for Melbourne on Sunday, which is Mother’s Day in Australia, but that they could not yet say when or where the alleged act was to occur.
“But let me tell you, something was going to happen,” Phelan told a press conference in Melbourne.
“As a result of Victoria police and AFP interception yesterday, some Victorians are going to be alive because of it. Had we not intervened, there was a real threat of action being taken.”
Police said they would not be naming the teenager charged due to his age, but said he was expected to face a closed court on Monday.
But Phelan said the teenager came from a loving family and it was deeply troubling to police that young people were becoming so disaffected they were considering endangering the lives of many Australians.
It is the second alleged attack believed to have been foiled in Victoria in recent weeks, after police arrested two men late last month for allegedly planning an Islamic State-inspired attack on Anzac Day commemorations honouring Australian soldiers.
Police said the two cases were not thought to be related.
They said they were still investigating the motivations for the latest alleged offence, but said the suspected explosive devices appeared very rudimentary.
‘Serious terror threat’
A string of incidents, including a December siege in a Sydney cafe by a self-styled cleric who attempted to link his actions to Islamic State, have raised awareness about radicalisation among Muslims.
Australia raised its threat level to high last September and has since carried out a series of counter-terrorism raids, with alarm fuelled by the departure of more than 100 of its nationals to Iraq and Syria to fight with Islamic State jihadists.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced the latest arrest, saying there was “evidence of a bomb plot that was in a reasonably advanced state of preparation”.
He said while it was important not to underestimate the terror threat, it was also right to keep it in perspective as he urged Australians to live their lives as usual.
“We know that we face a very serious terror threat, a very serious terror threat,” he said.
“The tragic truth is that there are people amongst us — not very many, it’s true — but there are some people amongst us who would do us harm and it’s vital that our police and security agencies be given all the support and all the resources they need to do their job,” he said.
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The Religion of Peace
Are we not passed the stage where we’ve realised it’s nothing to do with religion anymore? It’s just a bunch of nutjobs using that as an excuse
Unfortunately there are millions of these so called nut jobs fighting for their prophet all over the world, so l don’t think you can say it has nothing to do with religion.
17 years old ? I smell a stinky rat and set up here……seen it all before….this bull** has been going on since the biggest deception of them all 911. It is all bull*** guys
When is it our turn?
Billy, it was the Saudis and the US that created ISIS , funding , training….loads of evidence of false flags all over the place since the biggest false flag 911 … cannot believe people still believe this nonsense..
@MIke for a FALSE flag operation ? The powers that be have nothing to gain from a false flag on Irish Soil , they are usually done for dumb Americans and British. Unless Ireland wants to go to war with someone then it would be done , create an event and blame Muslims……It has been going since 911
US INTELLIGENCE AND BRITISH INTELLIGENCE AGENCEIS SHOULD BE SHUT DOWN FOR CRIMES AGAINST THEIR OWN PEOPLE…….wake up people for jesus sake and don’t be believing this nonsense, it is all a scam.
Ok jb, thanks for the info
jb
I was once like you, trying to convince everyone that the game is rigged.
The blind can’t see the truth and the deaf can’t hear it.
Now I simply say Fk em I’ll look after my own family let them learn the hard way.
I suggest you do the same.
The Local paper in Kilkenny , the Kilkenny People reported the Imam of the recently arrived Muslims , that they will obey Irish Law , which is a great relief , but worryingly the Poles , Nigerians and all the others who have contributed so much to our ‘ multicultural society ‘ have not announced their obedience to Irish Law , should we be concerned?
Has everything to do with religion. These are perfectly stable people until that religion gets a hold of them.
Testimony of Kurt Haskell who was on board the plane where the s0-called underwear bomber.
“I wish to thank the Court for allowing me these 5 minutes to make my statement. My references to the government in this statement refer to the Federal Government excluding this Court and the prosecution. On Christmas Day 2009, my wife and I were returning from an African safari and had a connecting flight through Amsterdam. As we waited for our flight, we sat on the floor next to the boarding gate. What I witnessed while sitting there and subsequent events have changed my life forever. While I sat there, I witnessed Umar dressed in jeans and a white t-shirt, being escorted around security by a man in a tan suit who spoke perfect American English and who aided Umar in boarding without a passport. The airline gate worker initially refused Umar boarding until the man in the tan suit intervened. The event meant nothing to me at the time. Little did I know that Umar would try to kill me a few hours later as our flight approached Detroit. The final 10 minutes of our flight after the attack were the worst minutes of my life. During those 10 minutes I sat paralyzed in fear. Unfortunately, what happened next has had an even greater impact on my life and has saddened me further.
When we landed, I was shocked that our plane taxied up to the gate. I was further shocked that we were forced to sit on the plane for 20 minutes with powder from the so called bomb all over the cabin. The officers that boarded the plane did nothing to ensure our safety and did not check for accomplices or other explosive devices. Several passengers trampled through parts of the bomb as they exited the plane. We were then taken into the terminal with our unchecked carry on bags. Again, there was no concern for our safety even though Umar told the officers that there was another bomb on board as he exited the plane. I wondered why nobody was concerned about our safety, accomplices or other bombs and the lack of concern worried me greatly. I immediately told the FBI my story in order to help catch the accomplice I had seen in Amsterdam. It soon became obvious that the FBI wasn’t interested in what I had to say, which upset me further. For one month the government refused to admit the existence of the man in the tan suit before changing course and admitting his existence in an ABC News article on January 22, 2010. That was the last time the government talked about this man. The video that would prove the truth of my account has never been released. I continue to be emotionally upset that the video has not been released. The Dutch police, meanwhile, in this article (show article), also confirmed that Umar did not show his passport in Amsterdam which also meant that he didn’t go through security as both are in the same line in Amsterdam. It upsets me that the government refuses to admit this fact.
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Kurt Haskell (Solicitor)
The key here is that the UNDERWEAR BOMBER was put on a plane with NO PASSPORT….how is this possible ?
“I became further saddened from this case, when Patrick Kennedy of the State Department during Congressional hearings, admitted that Umar was a known terrorist, was being followed, and the U.S. allowed him into the U.S. so that it could catch Umar’s accomplices. I was once again shocked and saddened when Michael Leiter of the National Counter terrorism Center admitted during these same hearings that intentionally letting terrorists into the U.S. was a frequent practice of the U.S. Government. I cannot fully explain my sadness, disappointment and fear when I realized that my government allowed an attack on me intentionally.
During this time, I questioned if my country intentionally put a known terrorist onto my flight with a live bomb. I had many sleepless nights over this issue. My answer came shortly thereafter. In late 2010, the FBI admitted to giving out intentionally defective bombs to the Portland Christmas Tree Bomber,the Wrigley Field Bomber and several others. Further, Mr. Chambers was quoted in the Free Press on January 11, 2011 when he indicated that the government’s own explosives experts had indicated that Umar’s bomb was impossibly defective. I wondered how that could be. Certainly, I thought, Al Qaeda wouldn’t go through all of the trouble to plan such an attack only to provide the terrorist with an impossibly defective bomb.
I attended nearly all of the pretrial hearings. At the hearing on January 28, 2011, I was greatly disappointed by the prosecution’s request to block evidence from Mr. Chambers “as it could then be able to be obtained by third parties, who could use it in a civil suit against the government”. It really bothered me that the government apparently was admitting to wrongdoing of some kind as it admitted that it was concerned it would be sued. It further upset me to know that the government was putting its own interests ahead of those of the passengers.
When I attended the jury selection hearings, I questioned why versions of the same two questions kept coming up, those being:
1. Do you think you’ll be able to tell whether something is actually a bomb? and 2. Do you realize that sometimes the media doesn’t always tell the truth?
I continued to be greatly saddened at this point as I felt the truth continued to be hidden.
When Umar listed me as his only witness, I was happy to testify, not on his behalf, but on behalf of the truth. I never expected to testify, as my eyewitness account would have been too damaging to the myth that the government and media are putting forward. A mere 5 days after I was announced as a witness, there was an inexplicable guilty plea which exasperated me as I no longer would be testifying.
In closing I will just say that regardless of how the media and government try to shape the public perception of this case, I am convinced that Umar was given an intentionally defective bomb by a U.S. Government agent and placed on our flight without showing a passport or going through security, to stage a false terrorist attack to be used to implement various government policies.
The effect this matter has had on my life has been astounding and due to this case, I will never trust the government in any matter, ever.
In regards to sentencing, nothing I’ve said excuses the fact that Umar tried to kill me. He has waived his valid claim to the entrapment defense. Umar, you are not a great Muslim martyr, you are merely a “Patsy”. I ask the court to impose the mandatory sentence.
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Kurt Haskell
Stick a feather in the ground and a bird will grow.
Chief: 2015
You’re beating a dead mule, or sheep, I should say.
The wilfully ignorant don’t care jb. It will upset their daily lives and God forbid that happened.
Hell, I will keep beating it Glen ….I understand what you are saying though.
I’ll keep green thumbing you jb !
Here is the man himself Kurt Haskell….https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHbL10Q8gRY
Not often I agree with James Gorman but in this case I totally agree with him.
Remove the religion from these individuals and they would never have contemplated killing for their so called God.
It has everything to do with their religion!.
No your the bullshit
A bit like the ‘ra so!
I can see a 9/11 type event taking place and the entire west going into lockdown.
There will be another 9/11 style terror attack most likely a dirty bomb. The intelligence community even admit this. When and where is the question.
His parents have a lot to answer for…
Twenty six Things About the Islamic State ISIL that Obama Does Not Want You to Know About
The US led war against the Islamic State is a big lie.
Going after ” Islamic terrorists”, carrying out a worldwide pre-emptive war to “Protect the American Homeland” are used to justify a military agenda.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is a creation of US intelligence. Washington’s “Counter-terrorism Agenda” in Iraq and Syria consists in Supporting the Terrorists.
The incursion of the Islamic State (IS) brigades into Iraq starting in June 2014 was part of a carefully planned military-intelligence operation supported covertly by the US, NATO and Israel.
The counter-terrorism mandate is a fiction. America is the Number One “State Sponsor of Terrorism”
The Islamic State is protected by the US and its allies. If they had wanted to eliminate the Islamic State brigades, they could have “carpet” bombed their convoys of Toyota pickup trucks when they crossed the desert from Syria into Iraq in June.
Noteworthy here :
Nr . 24 The homegrown terrorist threat is a fabrication. It is promoted by Western governments and the media with a view to repealing civil liberties and installing a police state. The terror attacks by alleged jihadists and terror warnings are invariably staged events. They are used to create an atmosphere of fear and intimidation.
In turn, the arrests, trials and sentences of “Islamic terrorists” sustain the legitimacy of America’s Homeland Security State and law enforcement apparatus, which has become increasingly militarized.
The ultimate objective is to instill in the minds of millions of Americans that the enemy is real and the U.S. Administration will protect the lives of its citizens.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/twenty-six-things-about-the-islamic-state-isil-that-obama-does-not-want-you-to-know-about/5414735
I’ll get my tinfoil helmet out straight away.
We are been lied to about ISIS, appealing to and exploiting our most vulnerable instincts of fear and survival. judging from the comments here this propaganda has been extremely successful.
Many lorries daily cross the Turkish border near a US. army base, supplying ISIS with arms and fighters. Two German TV teams have recorded this abnormality. Also Known ISIS leaders crossing the border in both directions devoid of hindrance or control. What they forgot to show were the many lorries daily crossing in the opposite direction loaded with stolen oil from Iraq and Syria from which ISIS earn an estimated 2 to 3 million Dollars daily. Which banks are washing this money ? HSBC again ?
A German news report – with English subtitles captions – shows that Turkey is sending terrorists into Syria:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/09/turkey-israel-directly-supporting-isis-al-qaeda-syria.html
Another good German documentary:
Deutsche Welle (English)
ISIS Supply Lines Originate in NATO’s Turkey : Report
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40347.htm
well said Pat, keep it coming dude. Great to see people countering the bull from the Intelligence services……sick puppy’s the lot of them
Why don’t they send him off to a country with open sewers where women have to have their heads covered by a bin liner? That would be a win/win; he’d be happy, and his neighbours would be happy too.
In fact, anyone on our little island who thinks we should all be ruled by shariah law should be put on the same plane. I mean, why should they suffer under a regime that allows something so gross as personal freedom?
Terrible headline. Far too many words, very hard to follow.
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