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Hostage-taker in Australia had been acquitted of terror plot
ABC News ^ | 06 June 2017 4:48am ET | Rod McGuirk, Associated Press

Posted on 06/06/2017 2:39:06 AM PDT by blueplum

A gunman who killed a man and took a woman hostage before dying in a police shootout had been acquitted of plotting a terror attack at a Sydney army base years earlier, police said Tuesday. Three police officers were wounded. {snip} The gunman, Yacqub Khayre, 29, was one of two men acquitted by a jury in 2010 of plotting a suicide attack in Sydney. Three people were convicted of conspiracy in that plot, which police thwarted before it could be executed.

Khayre, a Somali refugee, has an extensive and violent criminal record. He was sentenced in 2012 to 5 ? years in prison on convictions including aggravated burglary after beating

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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: australia; terrorism

1 posted on 06/06/2017 2:39:06 AM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

Protecting the public is no longer the governments responsibity. They are instead to protect criminals and loot the treasury.


2 posted on 06/06/2017 2:54:23 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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To: Cowboy Bob
Governments are applying English common law (criminal law) to what is essentially a wartime situation.

In wartime you round up and intern the usual suspects and suspend their rights. We will get to this stage but many will die in the meantime.

3 posted on 06/06/2017 3:31:12 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (We live in interesting times)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

One if the British terrorist s also was investigated. And was also released.


4 posted on 06/06/2017 3:41:57 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
That is exactly my point.

The short term solution to the terrorist problem is to intern en masse the usual suspects. The security services know who the suspects are. Pick them up and detain them. The government can decide to what to do with them later but get them off the streets RIGHT NOW.

There are all kinds of historical precedent for internment during wartime especially in North America. Canada and the US both had large gulags. There may have been abuses of the system but there was virtually no terrorism/sabotage during the war in North America. How about that?

5 posted on 06/06/2017 4:07:03 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (We live in interesting times)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Well the government did try him in court. You can thank the jury for letting terrorist killer back on the street.


6 posted on 06/06/2017 4:16:38 AM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: blueplum

Really makes me want to visit Australia. NOT.


7 posted on 06/06/2017 4:22:21 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: blueplum

The jurors should be a matter of public tecord. Post the faces of the three dead cops and their families to every social media account that have. Post it where they work, on their street corner.
Same for these traitors running our country. We hold them accountable because they asked us to.
It’s time to be loud, not shivering in the corner.. Aussies, post the jurors so we can Freep them.


8 posted on 06/06/2017 5:01:30 AM PDT by momincombatboots (White Stetsons up.. let's save our country!)
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To: blueplum

Western Society protects evil and allows the innocent to die without means to protect themselves.

This happens over and over again here and elsewhere.


9 posted on 06/06/2017 5:57:28 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Americans are modern day Amorites ripe for destruction)
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To: momincombatboots
Post the faces of the three dead cops and their families to every social media account that have

Just for the record, the three police officers were not killed. One suffered minor injuries, two more serious but fortunately not life threatening injuries.

10 posted on 06/07/2017 3:58:00 AM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: naturalman1975

Well I guess my idea wouldn’t work. I am glad they are alive.


11 posted on 06/08/2017 4:49:37 AM PDT by momincombatboots (White Stetsons up.. let's save our country!)
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