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November 10, 2005

Terror Arrests In Australia Result In Capture of Enough Material To Make 15 Bombs

"Pretext arrests" to stoke a "phantasmal fear" about a "fictitious threat" have, somehow, uncovered real would-be bombs:

The Sydney arm of the alleged Islamic terrorist group raided this week had stockpiled enough chemicals to make at least 15 large bombs to be used against selected targets, police say.

Only chemicals freely available at hardware stores were then needed for the group to be able to replicate the formula used to make the bombs that killed 52 people - and four suicide bombers - in the attacks in London on July 7, senior investigators say.

Senior police decided at the weekend to stage Tuesday's raids on dozens of properties in Sydney and Melbourne because they believed the Sydney suspects were so advanced they could have produced bombs within days.

The investigators say the group registered a series of company names to justify the purchase of industrial chemicals.

Police said they had also learned that suspects in Melbourne and Sydney had made legal appointments, leading intelligence analysts to believe they may have been planning to write wills.

Does anyone else worry that we're not making arrests like this here? Surely we haven't been so effective at preventing terrorism that there are no cells here in America.


posted by Ace at 02:44 PM
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Does anyone else worry that we're not making arrests like this here? Surely we haven't been so effective at preventing terrorism that there are no cells here in America.

YES. Look at how quickly the Spaniards and the Brits were able to identify and arrest suspects. And apparently they were fairly successful in the detective work.

It bothers me that the US has not been more successful in finding the roots of 9-11. I'd LIKE to believe that it's happening, and we aren't hearing about it - but who can believe that? Bush was using inflated figures of terrorist arrests and convictions on the campaign trail, and I really think they'd show it off if they had more.

I would have like to have seen MUCH more detective work and a LOT less of military action against countries unrelated to Al Qaeda terrorism.

And in Afghanistan, where the military solution probably made the most sense, I would rather have seen the reconstruction conducted with the long-term aim of making it a safe stable state. I think Harper's Index had a riff on the cost of eradicating drug crops vs buying them all -- both about half a billion $, IIRC. Between the Taliban and the drug trade, it's hard for me to see how Afghanistan is the success Don Rumsfeld claims...

Posted by: tubino on November 10, 2005 03:30 PM

You are an intentionally obtuse turd. The pictures of the 9/11 Hijackers were shown the next day.

Posted by: polynikes on November 10, 2005 04:20 PM

So here's my question:

How exactly does conducting war in Iraq hurt our ability to do detective work at home? I mean, one is the province of soldiers, marines et al, and the other is work done by, well, detectives.

I've heard this a lot from the left, and it frankly baffles me.

Posted by: SparcVark on November 10, 2005 04:40 PM

CAIR and the ACLU have done their level best to stop this sort of thing in America.

Posted by: Sterm26 on November 10, 2005 04:57 PM

I would have to question the timing of this so-called victory. It seems to me that Australia needs to learn a thing or two about sensitivity from France about towards their economically downtrodden Muslim Immigrant community.

Posted by: joeindc44 on November 10, 2005 05:08 PM

How exactly does conducting war in Iraq hurt our ability to do detective work at home?

It depletes the local orgone supply. We have only so many orgone generators available.

Posted by: Tony on November 10, 2005 05:08 PM

God Dammit!

The most completely fucked up stupid shit troll, turd anti-admin for the sake of it post i have come across yet.

Must noit fefeed trollllzzzzzzzzzz

But I suppose UK and Spain did "better"at getting tangos (after the fact, BTW) is because they don't have, ahem, certain civil liberties.

Posted by: joeindc44 on November 10, 2005 05:14 PM
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