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Rather than resurrect one of the other terrorist threads, I thought this could go here.
People can refer to the number of terrorist incidents in Australia as minimal and write them off. What they don't see is the work going on behind the scenes to prevent them. Like this.
An elaborate police sting involving thousands of intercepted phone calls and text messages led to the arrests of three men accused of plotting an Islamic State-inspired terror attack designed to kill as many people as possible in a crowded place in Melbourne.
Police said they had to swoop on Tuesday after the group tried to obtain a .22 semi-automatic rifle in recent days.
"If we had not acted ... in preventing this attack, we allege the consequences could have been chilling," federal police assistant commissioner Ian McCartney said.
In court, prosecutor Aman Dhillon said investigators needed four months to compile the brief of evidence against the accused.
There were 17,000 telephone intercepts and 10,000 text messages to assess and 7800 hours of recordings captured on various listening devices to collate, Mr Dhillon said.
OK, so "pinched" is maybe not the correct term as it implies they stole it when AAP copy is available to all news outlets to use.
What I meant is that they effectively just used the copy from AAP rather than have any of their own writers write something that clearly conflicts with their values.
On a side note, I heard Peter Dutton on the radio this morning on the way to work. It was cutting in and out as I streaming it, but he provided a good explanation of why we cancel passports for people on terrorist watch lists, preventing them from leaving the country rather than letting them go.
In short, if they were born here (as the most recent 3 were) they have a constitutional right to come back. We can't prevent them from returning, unlike duel citizens.
So they prevent them from leaving which prevents them from getting first hand education in terror aspects such as bomb making and also prevents them being used as poster boys for the ISIS propaganda machine and therefore radicalising more young men and women.
Fairy nuff.
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
So they prevent them from leaving which prevents them from getting first hand education in terror aspects such as bomb making and also prevents them being used as poster boys for the ISIS propaganda machine and therefore radicalising more young men and women.
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I was involved years ago loaning surveillance equipment to the NSW police for watching suspected kiddy fiddler in rural western NSW. He had booked a ticket to Vietnam. He was a permanent resident but carried a Eastern european passport. When the plane took off they searched his property which had been booby trapped with explosives and he had shot his rottweilers. The Government cancelled his permanent residency and the AFP notified interplod who told the Vietnamese. Several days later they caught him trying to procure the services of a very young Viet girl and they banged him up. He contacted the Australian embassy who told him he was not their problem. Whenever he gets out he can never return to Australia.
