Aussie terror suspect arrest

AuNews.com ^ | October 26, 2003 | staff

[spald]

Aussie terror suspect arrest
October 26, 2003

A MAN who French authorities feared may have been preparing a terrorist attack was arrested in Sydney for breaching his tourist visa.

Willie Virgile Brigitte, a French national, was arrested on October 9, 18 days after French police first warned Australian authorities of his presence in the country.

Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said today Brigitte, who has now been taken back to France for questioning over terrorist-related offences there, had entered the country posing as a tourist in May this year.

He said France warned authorities on September 22 that Brigitte had trained with terrorists in both Pakistan and Afghanistan and was somewhere in Australia.

On October 7, it increased its warning, with French authorities fearful that Brigitte was in Australia in connection with terrorist-related activity.

[spald]

Good news from Australia

[Brian Allen]

<< Why, in America do we have millions and millions of alien people running around without visa's and expired visas but no one knows who they are? Australia has a violator and an alert goes out immediately. >>

Because America is still essentially FRee.

And Australia has the most fearsome and loathesome "permanent 'public service'" of the planet -- and that insidious force has created the western world's most comprehensively-interconnected Orwellian computer network. A computer network -- without any authorizing legislation ever having been introduced, debated and/or passed and/or any public moneys ever having been allocated to that purpose -- that tracks and interconnects every banking, customs, immigration, welfare, lottery, motor transport, air-ticketing, telephone call, eMail, fax -- etceteras -- transaction anywhere in Australia and effectively tracks every resident and/or visitor to that country.

[Miss Marple]

Birgitte is not a Muslim name. He is a FRENCH national.

Now, what group is he related to..is he a member of the Green groups, a converted Muslim, or a member of ANSWER?

[livius]

Willie Virgile Brigitte

Sort of a strange name, even for a "French national," which seems usually to mean somebody who has French citizenship but is not ethnically French. I assume this person, in any case, was probably a convert to the ROP?

[Brian Allen]

<< So you are saying .... blah blah blah blah .... >>

No, I am not saying and did not say any of that -- and nor did I advance any reasoning whatsoever.

You said it all, created the straw men you needed to your purpose -- and are debating and/or otherwise engaged in discussion only with yourself.

Must be a bit of a worry for your Mum.