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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Thirty-Two

Posted on 11/01/2005 6:57:01 PM PST by nwctwx

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The Threat Matrix

The title refers to a daily report given to the president of the United States detailing the most serious terrorist threats against the country. To tackle those threats, the government has formed a top-notch task force to infiltrate the terror cells and cut off the danger.

"Every morning, the president receives a list of the top ten terrorist threats - this list is known as the threat matrix."

We here at FR are trying to be in conjunction with the daily reports around the world that involve threats. We try to provide a storehouse of information that takes hours of research.

YOU be the judge and get informed!
Threat Matrix - Daily Terrorism Threat
Threat Matrix: U.S. Terrorism
What's become of bin Laden since he gave us all the slip?
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Some think he is dead, others that he is hiding because he is scared of being killed.

Whatever the reason for the strange disappearance of Osama bin Laden, not seen alive since his last mocking video statement a year ago, he is no longer the face of the global "jihad" against the West.

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi { TM 25,TM 27 }, the Jordanian responsible for some of the worst atrocities in Iraq, has become the hero of the hour on militant Islamist websites.

Related:
Can al-Qaeda Endure Beyond bin Laden?
Two Years Ago: Threat Matrix Begins

"I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat."
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To: Jill St Claire

GIMF has also released a new Zarqawi video today...haven't seen it yet!


4,621 posted on 12/11/2005 9:34:27 AM PST by Jill St Claire
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1538299/posts

Tell Us Where Bin Laden Is (America)
Arab News ^ | Sunday, 11, December, 2005 | M.J. Akbar


Posted on 12/11/2005 8:35:02 AM PST by DevSix


It doesn’t surprise me that George Bush had a plan to bomb the Doha headquarters of the pesky Arabic news channel Al-Jazeera back into the desert age. What shocks me is that he hasn’t sent Al-Jazeera a thank you note after his re-election last year in November.


A victory that became comfortable after the results were in, obscures how close the contest was. For a couple of hours on polling day, the opinion pundits and television channels were preparing for a John Kerry presidency, and liberal gloating over the demise of Bush ended only around noon. Democrats are now convinced that the critical factor that swung the election away from Kerry was the sudden and very mysterious appearance of an Osama Bin Laden tape promising the usual death and destruction of America.

Continued.......at link.

I do not really understand this article at all, why is he taunting the U.S.????
granny


4,622 posted on 12/11/2005 9:34:37 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny (THE ENEMY IS WITHIN!!Google search: DSA members in Congress (finds elected communists.))
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To: Jill St Claire

Thank you for sending us the links.

It sure got around to the sites in a hurry, with the riots in London and Australia last night, they must have taken the orders to heart.


4,623 posted on 12/11/2005 9:40:41 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny (THE ENEMY IS WITHIN!!Google search: DSA members in Congress (finds elected communists.))
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To: nw_arizona_granny
Zawahiri's video is full of propaganda....downplaying the number of Muslim's that have been killed by suicide bombings while emphasizing the number of deaths by our troops. And you are welcome for the links!
4,624 posted on 12/11/2005 9:48:09 AM PST by Jill St Claire
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1538267/posts

ElBaradei: "You cannot use force to prevent a country from obtaining nuclear weapons."
Aftenposten via Jerusalem Post ^ | 11 Dec 05 | None


Posted on 12/11/2005 7:26:53 AM PST by LSUfan


"You cannot use force to prevent a country from obtaining nuclear weapons. By bombing them half to death, you can only delay the plans," he was quoted as saying by the Oslo newspaper Aftenposten. "But they will come back, and they will demand revenge."


4,625 posted on 12/11/2005 9:50:56 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny (THE ENEMY IS WITHIN!!Google search: DSA members in Congress (finds elected communists.))
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To: Jill St Claire

Sounds about normal to me.

It builds self confidence, to not tell how many terrorists are dead and in prison.....also helps recruiting.

Sad that they feel as they do.


4,626 posted on 12/11/2005 9:53:48 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny (THE ENEMY IS WITHIN!!Google search: DSA members in Congress (finds elected communists.))
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December 11, 2005 Anti-Terrorism News

Israel readies forces for strike on nuclear Iran
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1920074,00.html

Deadline passes for Iraq hostages
http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi/20051211-062951-9655r.htm

Bomb explodes at Spanish post office, ETA blamed
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2005-12-11T113824Z_01_FOR141869_RTRUKOC_0_UK-SPAIN-EXPLOSION.xml

(Afghanistan) Suicide Bombing in Kandahar Kills Attacker
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5471900,00.html

(Afghanistan) Al Qaeda deputy praises Taleban gains in Afghanistan in
new tape
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2005/December/middleeast_December278.xml§ion=middleeast
Al Qaeda No. 2 Ayman Al Zawahri has praised Taleban leader Mullah Omar
for winning back control of large regions of Afghanistan and urged
Muslims to wage holy war against the West

(Afghanistan) Taliban issue decree urging death for Karzai
http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-12-11T074407Z_01_FOR127806_RTRUKOC_0_US-AFGHAN-FATWA.xml

Explosions near London airport appear to be accident: police
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200512/s1528577.htm
Police have no evidence to suggest that massive explosions at a fuel
depot near one of London's airports on Sunday were "caused by anything
other than an accident"

(Palestine) Abbas Approves Monthly Grant To Families of Suicide Bombers
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=94583

(Israel) Al Aqsa militant killed by own bomb in West Bank
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2005/December/middleeast_December255.xml§ion=middleeast
A Palestinian militant from the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades was killed
in the West Bank town of Nablus early Sunday when an explosive device
he was trying to hurl at Israeli soldiers backfired

Commentary: Daveed Gartenstein-Ross: Extremists among us?
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/points/stories/DN-mas_11edi.ART.State.Edition1.3d859b9.html

Murder of man of peace inspires a voters' revolt
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1920078,00.html
Murder of grand mufti of Falluja, who castigated Al-Zarqawi for
“un-Islamic behaviour” and encouraged voting, inspiring residents to vote
on December 15

Muslim leaders slam terror
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4517660.stm
Leaders of member states of Organisation of the Islamic Conference
(OIC) denounce terrorism in all forms and manifestations

(Iraq) Zarqawi group members convicted
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4517660.stm
Seven people have been convicted of carrying out attacks as part of the
militant group al-Qaeda in Iraq, according to Iraq's justice ministry.

Iraq Attacks Kill Four U.S. Soldiers
http://interestalert.com/story/siteia.shtml?Story=st/sn/12100000aaa03f19.ap&Sys=siteia&Fid=WORLDNEW&Type=News&Filter=World%20News
Four American soldiers were killed Saturday in separate attacks in the
Baghdad area Saturday

Pakistan: Clampdown on Clerics Falters
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Security&loid=8.0.238349566&par=0

(Israel) Deadly Terrorist Attack Prevented in Jerusalem
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=138&newsid=78373&ch=0&datte=2005-12-10

Balkan Islamists Sponsored the Act of Terrorism in Israel
http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=522

Italy Warns against Al-Qaeda Cells in Albania
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=56331
Report claims that new Islamic organization called "Jihad al Jadid",
cell of Al Qaeda linked to Greece, has recently appeared in Albania

Cyber War Line Up
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htiw/articles/20051210.aspx
James Dunnigan: "A lot of information on the Cyber War against the
United States is kept secret"

(Bangladesh) Two suicide bombers held, bombs seized
http://www.thedailystar.net/2005/12/11/d5121101033.htm
Police arrested 16 cadres of outlawed Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh
(JMB) including two suspected suicide squad members across the country

(Israel) Terrorists Using UNRWA Schools for Rallies
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=94529

(Canada) Court rules against bid by terrorist suspect to lift security
certificate
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/story.html?id=1619cbc9-8802-47bc-9752-b5a04ef7a049&k=30734
The Federal Court of Canada has rejected a suspected terrorist's (Adil
Charkaoui) bid to throw out the government's case against him.

Egyptian hostage found dead in Iraq
http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi/20051210-095036-9641r.htm
A police official said the Egyptian, identified as Mohammad Ibrahim
al-Hilali, was kidnapped from his house in Tikrit last week.

(Australia) Police search home of threat maker
http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi/20051209-075147-1628r.htm
Police in Australia have raided for a second time the home of Saleh
Jama who threatened to hijack an aircraft and fly it into the Sydney
Harbor Bridge. He is currently being held in a Lebanese jail, and reportedly
made the threat on the bridge during an interview with a reporter from
The Australian.

Israel: Secret Gaza tunnel found
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/12/10/gaza.tunnel/index.html

Clergy in Bangladesh rises against militancy
http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=186791&n_date=20051210&cat=India
Muslim clerics throughout Bangladesh read special 'khutba' (sermon)
during Friday prayer, condemmnng recent bombings and urging militants to
shun violence in name of Islam

Hezbollah militant escapes blast
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4515542.stm
Hussein Assaf, in charge of training Hezbollah guerrillas, unharmed in
bomb attack

Talabani to Meet with Resistance Leaders; Shiite Coalition in Friction
http://www.kurdmedia.com/news.asp?id=10848
KurdishMedia.com: "President Jalal Talabani is preparing a meeting in
Sulaimaniyah to be attended by the Americans and by leaders of the
underground Sunni Arab guerrilla movement."

U.S. May Yet Deport Acquitted Ex-Professor
http://www.localnewsleader.com/elytimes/stories/news-00109613.html




4,627 posted on 12/11/2005 11:00:27 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny (THE ENEMY IS WITHIN!!Google search: DSA members in Congress (finds elected communists.))
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To: Jill St Claire
It has English sub-titles and is essentially calling for all Muslims to stop being afraid to go out and fight the Crusaders in the name of Allah.

Is the tone of this video one of trying to counter a jihadi defeatist attitude? Sounds like a big change in tone if so.

4,628 posted on 12/11/2005 11:01:49 AM PST by Godzilla (Jesus - The REASON for the SEASON)
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To: nw_arizona_granny

Rape of women by muslims...you mention France, England, Austrailia...add Norway and Sweeden to the list (I couldn't find any articles regarding the Florida incident you mentioned).

The following is coming soon to a city near you.



Rape: Nothing to do with Islam?

I got some comments, among others from Norwegian blogger Bjørn Stærk, to my posts about the Norwegian government covering up the number of rapes committed by immigrants. The Swedish government is probably even worse, but Sweden is in many ways collapsing. Although he agreed that the statistics should be published, he questioned whether these rapes have anything to do with Islam. It is true that mass rapes of "the enemy's women", in part to humiliate the enemy's men, is not unique to Islam. It has been done at times of war by the Vikings, the Mongols, the Germans and the Russians during WW2, and all the way up to the Balkans in the 1990s. That's also my point. The number of rapes committed by Muslim immigrants in Western nations are so extremely high that it is difficult to view them only as random acts of individuals. It resembles warfare. This happens in most Western European countries, as well as in other infidels countries such as India. In Bradford, England, Channel 4 pulled a documentary about Pakistani and other Muslim men sexually abusing white English girls, some as young as 11. Writer Theodore Dalrymple thinks that "thanks to their cultural inheritance, (Muslim) abuse of women is systematic rather than unsystematic as it is with the whites and blacks." In France, grotesque reports about systematic gang rapes of French or "too Western" Muslim girls keep coming in. At the same time, European jails are getting filled up with Muslims imprisoned for robberies and all kinds of violent crimes, and Muslims bomb European civilians. You can see the mainstream media are struggling to make sense of all of this. That's because they can't, or don't want to, see the obvious: This is exactly how an invading army would behave. Rape, pillage and bomb.

I disagree that this has nothing to do with Islam. Muhammad himself had forced sex (rape) with several of his slave girls/concubines. This is perfectly allowed, both in the sunna and in the Koran. If you postulate that many of the Muslims in Europe view themselves as a conquering army and that European women are simply war booty, it all makes perfect sense and is in full accordance with Islamic law. And Muslims do follow their medieval religious laws, even today:

Robert Spencer on rape and jihad

What does rape, then, have to do with these religious conflicts? Unfortunately, everything. The Islamic legal manual ‘Umdat al-Salik, which carries the endorsement of Al-Azhar University, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam, stipulates: “When a child or a woman is taken captive, they become slaves by the fact of capture, and the woman’s previous marriage is immediately annulled.” Why? So that they are free to become the concubines of their captors. The Qur’an permits Muslim men to have intercourse with their wives and their slave girls: “Forbidden to you are ... married women, except those whom you own as slaves” (Sura 4:23-24).

After one successful battle, Muhammad tells his men, “Go and take any slave girl.” He took one for himself also. After the notorious massacre of the Jewish Qurayzah tribe, he did it again. According to his earliest biographer, Ibn Ishaq, Muhammad “went out to the market of Medina (which is still its market today) and dug trenches in it. Then he sent for [the men of Banu Qurayza] and struck off their heads in those trenches as they were brought out to him in batches.” After killing “600 or 700 in all, though some put the figure as high as 800 or 900,” the Prophet of Islam took one of the widows he had just made, Rayhana bint Amr, as another concubine.

Emerging victorious in another battle, according to a generally accepted Islamic tradition, Muhammad’s men present him with an ethical question: “We took women captives, and we wanted to do ‘azl [coitus interruptus] with them.” Muhammad told them: “It is better that you should not do it, for Allah has written whom He is going to create till the Day of Resurrection.’” When Muhammad says “it is better that you should not do it,” he’s referring to coitus interruptus, not to raping their captives. He takes that for granted.

Here's what Vice Director of Jihad Watch, Hugh Fitzgerald, whom I rate in league with Ali Sina and Ibn Warraq as among the best commentators of Islam in this age, has to say about the issue (scroll down):

'For her to be absolved from guilt, a raped woman must have shown good conduct'

For non-Muslim women, they are in every respect -- the way they walk, the way they talk, those bedroom eyes we all know so well -- simply asking for it, and Muslim men have every right to do what they wish.

It is not understood that Western women are not so much regarded by most Muslims as individuals, but as "their women," the women who "belong" to hostile Infidels. They are booty, to be taken, just as the land of the Infidels someday will drop, it is believed, into Muslim hands -- by demographic conquest rather than military conquest. It has worked in many parts of Africa; and if Muslims fail to reproduce even faster than they do, there is always the expedient of killing the remaining Infidels.

All over France there are cases of rapes, by MUslim gangs, of French girls. In Australia, in 2000, Bankstown and Greenacre (in Sydney) had a succession of gang-rapes, in which the victims testified to the particularly gruesome details of being assaulted by a dozen or more men at a time, screaming at them for being "Aussies" or "Christians." It made a big splash in Sydney, when the cases came to trial in 2002. Alan Jones, an Australian commentator, noted: "Let's not mince words here -- these are racist attacks against ordinary Australian girls carried out by out of control Muslim Lebanese...." The girls themselves all testified to the fact that the attacks were full of observations about, not race, but religion -- and the confusion of Jones here is understandable. The Western world is still groping to understand something of which it had been so remarkably and indeed, in some ways so fortunately unaware; it is the attitudes engendered toward Infidels -- a Frenchman who is beaten to death for trying to retrieve his daughter's stolen bicycle, a mother and her year-old-child assaulted on an RER train near Louvres, the thousands of assaults which are a modern version of the rape and pillage that Muslim conquerors were permitted whenever they conquered Infidel lands. This is not mere crime, but ideologically-justified crime or rather, in Muslim eyes, attacks on Infidels scarcely qualify as crime.

Have we forgotten the mass rapes, at the hands of Muslims (Turks, Kurds, and in the Syrian Desert, Arabs) of the Armenian women, those helpless "giavours," in the first full-scale massacres in modern times, those of 1894-1895, and then the genocidal campaign that began in 1915 and went on for years? Have we all forgotten what happened to the Assyrian Christian women during the Assyrian massacres of 1933, when -- just a few months after the British left -- Muslim Iraqis had a high old time with their helpless Christian population? What about the rapes of the Christian women, kidnapped in Ramadi, Iraq last year -- never to be returned to their husbands, and now the permanent property of the Muslims who kidnapped them? Shall one recall what happened to the Christian Maronites in Damur, at the hands of the PLO? What about the Copts, in Egypt? Or, during the Algerian War the mass rape of Christian and Jewish women by the FLN (scarcely given enough attention in Alastair Horne's reticent "A Savage War of Peace" but given much more by such writers as Jacques Soustelle, the great ethnographer of Mexican culture, and a perceptive analyst of the Algerian situation and the real nature of Islam -- akin, in his way, to Andre Servier).

The figures on Muslim rape of Western women in Europe are astounding. In Denmark and Norway, between 65% and 70% of all rapes are committed by Muslims, who as yet still less than 5% of the population. One local judge in Norway actually exonerated one rapist by accepting his defense that the victim's dress was taken by him to mean that she was egging him on. Her dress was nothing special to Norwegians, but the judge found it to be unbearably provocative to this poor Muslim immigrant. A curious argument, is it not? Even if she had been dressed a la Gisele Bundchen doing a shoot for Victoria's Secret -- and she of course was not -- rape is not an acceptable response.

The argument now seems to be: Western mores are offensive. Western women are cheap and offensive. We Muslims are here, here to stay, and we have a right to take advantage of this situation. It is our view of the matter that should prevail. Western goods, like the land on which we now live, belong to Allah and to the best of men -- his Believers. Western women, too, essentially belong to us -- our future booty. Western laws may "apply" but not in any sense that really counts or that we reocgnize. We recognize Islamic law, the sharia, and according to that we are simply exhibiting the attiudes toward Infidels that are drummed into us, that are right and according to the laws of Allah. Why should we act differently? Oh, and if we happen to act, as some of the Islamic websites tell us we can act, in accordance with the local laws -- but only insofar as they do not contradict Islam -- that is only because of darura, the doctrine of necessity -- and that necessity, that darura, is of course only temporary.

In other words, when in Rome, if you are Muslim, do any damn thing you please and justify it by saying you didn't realize you were in Rome, or what the Romans did, and anyway, the Romans are Infidels so who cares what they do, or expect. A fascinating attitude. The sooner this is fully grasped by Infidels, the fewer victims, ultimately, there will be.

http://fjordman.blogspot.com/2005/08/rape-nothing-to-do-with-islam.html

Some of this is worth repeating:

I disagree that this has nothing to do with Islam. Muhammad himself had forced sex (rape) with several of his slave girls/concubines. This is perfectly allowed, both in the sunna and in the Koran. If you postulate that many of the Muslims in Europe view themselves as a conquering army and that European women are simply war booty, it all makes perfect sense and is in full accordance with Islamic law. And Muslims do follow their medieval religious laws, even today:


4,629 posted on 12/11/2005 11:37:16 AM PST by Founding Father (Fry Tookie Williams)
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http://www.icej.org/cgi-local/view.cgi?type=headline&artid=2005/12/09/572738400

Navy Bans Warships From Suez
The Israel Navy has decided to cease sending its warships through the Suez Canal, out of concern they will be targeted by al-Qaeda linked terrorists in the Sinai, The Jerusalem Post has learned. "We don't want to draw terror," said a senior naval officer in explaining the move. Analysts downplayed the strategic significance of the decision, saying the navy rarely used the Suez Canal. The move will have no effect on Israeli civilian vessels that continue to use the waterway regularly.

Al-Aqsa Mortar Squad Killed in Gaza Airstrike
The IDF carried out its second targeted assassination in less than 24 hours, striking at members of the Palestinian Authority-linked al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades in Gaza, and killing three of them, The Jerusalem Post reports. Half a dozen bystanders were also injured in the pinpoint missile strike that hit a structure in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya, used by the men to prepare the launching of mortar barrages on Israel. The building targeted served as their headquarters as well as a shop producing material for terrorist operations, Israeli military sources said.




4,630 posted on 12/11/2005 11:58:16 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny (THE ENEMY IS WITHIN!!Google search: DSA members in Congress (finds elected communists.))
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To: Cindy

Interesting article and thread; thanks for posting the link Cindy.


4,631 posted on 12/11/2005 12:04:52 PM PST by Oorang ( Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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At a meeting of the George Bush fan club the following action was taken.

Excerpt from:http://www.borderlandnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051211/NEWS/512110351/1001


Mexicans urge easy crossings


Mexican lawmakers pressed Saturday at a conference in El Paso for changes that would allow border residents more freedom to move between the United States and Mexico, despite urging from some U.S. state legislators for laws to curtail ills associated with undocumented immigration.

snip

Jones estimated that undocumented immigrants account for almost 20 percent of Arizona's prison population.



4,632 posted on 12/11/2005 12:14:47 PM PST by Founding Father (Fry Tookie Williams)
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To: MamaDearest

TM Bump!


4,633 posted on 12/11/2005 12:14:50 PM PST by texpat72 (<><)
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To: thecabal

I heard this morning that they don't know the cause of the explosions, but they know it wasn't terrorist related. MAFNTSH (move along folks, nothing to see here)


4,634 posted on 12/11/2005 12:33:33 PM PST by texpat72 (<><)
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To: nw_arizona_granny
A little more insight into the RoPers mindset concerning women (from the Austrailian rape trial):


Gang rapist blames culture

By Kim Arlington
09dec05

A CONVICTED gang rapist has told a Sydney court he sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl because he thought she was promiscuous and "had no right to say no".

The 27-year-old, identified only as MSK, said voices had commanded him to rape the girl, but also blamed cultural differences for the attack.

MSK, convicted of raping two girls aged 13 and 14, faced sentencing submissions today before NSW Supreme Court Justice Peter Hidden.

He is already serving a 22-year jail term for leading his three younger brothers in the gang rape of two more girls, aged 16 and 17.

All four attacks took place at the brothers' Ashfield home, in Sydney's inner-west, in June and July 2002.

The court was told the first rape, that of a 14-year-old girl known as T, took place four days after MSK arrived from Pakistan.

MSK took an oath on the Koran before telling the court his cultural background was partly to blame for his crimes.

T, who had visited his house with two female friends, was not wearing traditional Muslim dress, he said.

"She was not covering her face or wearing any headscarf," MSK said.

"Then she started drinking with us ... at one point she started touching my leg."

MSK agreed T had not consented to sex but said: "I go ahead with it because ... I believe that she was promiscuous".

"I believed at the time I committed this offence that she had no right to say no," he said.

"I believed I'm not doing anything wrong."

T had told the trial that before she was raped by MSK and his younger brother MAK, who also was convicted, she was a virgin and had never kissed a boy.

MSK said he believed that his 13-year-old victim, known as C, also was promiscuous.

Now 18, T shook her head as she listened from the public gallery, supported by C's mother.

MSK had visited Australia nine times, including a 10-month stint when he worked as a security guard, before his arrest.

He told the court he now had a "better idea and understanding of Australian culture" after being exposed to the country's media.

"I understand now that what I did at the time was wrong and (that) what I believed was wrong," he said.

MSK also said he was drunk at the time of the offences, and was not taking the anti-psychotic medication prescribed for him by his father, a doctor.

"I was not taking my medication so I was under the influence of voices," he said.

"I was commanded by voices to go ahead."

Crown prosecutor Ken McKay told Justice Hidden that MSK's explanation for the offences kept changing.

"One minute it's the voices, the next minute it's a cultural issue," he said.

Mr McKay said the question of mental illness was raised only this year when MSK's applications to adjourn his trial were refused, but a jury found him fit to be tried.

MSK apologised to his victims for the first time today, but interrupted his apology to tell T: "Don't shake your head - I'm telling you something."

Outside court, T rejected his apology.

"It wasn't a sincere apology. I don't accept it at all," she said.

MSK will be sentenced next year.


http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,17513853%255E1702,00.html


Granny, you're right that this is coming to the USA. I predict it will start in the Bay Area and I definitely predict it will not take place below the Mason-Dixon Line.
4,635 posted on 12/11/2005 12:36:43 PM PST by Founding Father (Fry Tookie Williams)
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I have noticed lots of reports of rumors going around to avoid various shopping centers in the run-up to Christmas in the U.K. Most follow the usual urban myth pattern of "my friend's sister's, boyfriend's roomate's Uncle had this experience at this shopping center..."

There is one over at terroranalysis.com where a guy claims to have a copy of a memo given to all stores in a shopping center near Birmingham warning of a credible threat for tomorrow (December 12th). Thought I would just mention this.


4,636 posted on 12/11/2005 12:39:40 PM PST by British chick
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To: Founding Father

That is quite a report on rape by the muslims.

I tried again to find the ones I know of, they have vanished, I know they were here, as I pulled them out of the Free Republic search engine a couple times, maybe I didn't go back far enough.

Marcos Island should be the one, they may have both been from Saudia Arabia.

One was an ex-embassy man, who tried to molest a girl 8 or 12 years old, he was a friend of the family.

The Freepers did their magic and found that his attorney owned or had owned an airplane, with the judge, who had postponed the case, then released him from jail and allowed him to retain his passport and leave the country.

I never heard if he showed up for the trial, he was about 60 years old.

The other was a teenaged girl, raped by muslims, who were here on work permits, to work in the fancy hotels on Marcos Island.

Freepers, seemed to think that it was a phony work permit, and questioned why they had to import muslim men to work in a hotel. I am thinking they were from Saudi, that some of them got away, but there was one in jail, a rich boy, who was spouting that it was the girls fault.

Both of these were 2 to 4 years ago.

What does it take to wake up America? They are not facing what is coming.


4,637 posted on 12/11/2005 1:03:51 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (THE ENEMY IS WITHIN!!Google search: DSA members in Congress (finds elected communists.))
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To: Founding Father
undocumented immigrants account for almost 20 percent of Arizona's prison population

Wonder why don't we outsource our prisoners? Banks outsource our financial records.

4,638 posted on 12/11/2005 1:10:46 PM PST by LucyT
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To: Founding Father

Granny, you're right that this is coming to the USA. I predict it will start in the Bay Area and I definitely predict it will not take place below the Mason-Dixon Line.<<<<<

I think that if you look at the rape problems in Florida,
it will show that the rapes will be everyplace.

I am still puzzled that the rapes have disappeared, as they were reported in the ? Florida newspaper, that is where I
read it and here in the Freeper files.

I was a trained Foster Home for raped children.

I think I am capable of killing a person who raped a child.

Have you ever tried to work with an 10 year old girl, who thinks that ALL men, want to "do that" to her? it is almost
impossible to do, all the love in the world does not heal those types of wounds.


4,639 posted on 12/11/2005 1:17:56 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (THE ENEMY IS WITHIN!!Google search: DSA members in Congress (finds elected communists.))
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To: LucyT
Wonder why don't we outsource our prisoners? Banks outsource our financial records.

You win the good idea of the day award (we'll see if it's good enough for the weekly, monthly or year award--ha).

4,640 posted on 12/11/2005 1:20:29 PM PST by Founding Father (Fry Tookie Williams)
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