Did you see this AFP report this morning?
AFP: Australian City Evacuates Public Transport in Terror Alert
Monday, November 14, 2005
BRISBANE, Australia, Nov 14 (AFP) - Authorities in Australia's third largest city Monday emptied all public buses and trains of rush-hour commuters for 30 minutes following anonymous telephone threats against the transport network. Brisbane officials linked what they admitted was an "overly cautious" response to heightened security fears following last week's arrests of 18 Muslims in Sydney and Melbourne on charges of preparing bomb attacks.
Brisbane Lord-Mayor Campbell Newman announced mid-afternoon that all the city's buses and trains would come to a halt from 4:45pm to 5:15 pm because of the threats, made in three calls earlier Monday to the 000 emergency number.
"From 4:45pm, the buses will be pulling over, they will discharge their passengers, the bus drivers will be instructed to take their passengers a distance away from
the buses, and they will wait for half an hour," he said.
"Then they will hopefully continue on their way, and we won't have any problems at all, but that's the instruction at the moment."
Train services were also halted during the 30-stoppage, which took place without incident.
The east coast city's buses and trains had already been halted for about an hour at around noon in a first response to the threats.
Queensland state Premier Peter Beattie acknowledged that the preventative evacuations were an extraordinary step.
"We're being over-cautious because we're not sure if they are hoaxes or if they are real," Beattie said earlier in the day.
"In light of what happened last week in Sydney and Melbourne, I think Queenslanders would want us to be over-cautious. We haven't made this decision lightly."
Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson said the threatening calls had been "specific, certainly in terms of the threat to the bus and train system, and the clear inference was in the Brisbane area".
Beattie and Newman visited two of Brisbane's main transport hubs during the alert.
Police documents released in Sydney, meanwhile, alleged that eight of the 18 Muslim men arrested in counter-terrorism raids last week had been stockpiling large quantities of detonators and chemicals used to manufacture explosives.
Authorities said earlier that some of the chemicals found during last week's raids were similar to materials used in suicide bombings that killed more than 50 people in London's transport system in July.
The London attack was carried out by British-born Muslims.
The 18 men arrested in Australia were either Australian born or naturalised Australian citizens.
(Description of Source: Hong Kong AFP in English -- Hong Kong service of the independent French press agency Agence France-Presse)
Yes, actually I was just reading that one.
We must be peeking over each other's shoulders. LOL
Just checking this one too:
'Outback shooting trips used for jihad training'
TWO properties in the remote Australian bush were used as jihad training camps for a group of would-be Sydney terrorists, it is alleged.
The training allegedly took place early this year on western NSW properties booked under false names such as "Adam George" and "Andrew Scott".
http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,17244110-5001021,00.html
**Notice he used "George" in his name.
I've been touting the George name "coincidences" here for a while.
This spin will make you dizzy:
Did Al-Zarqawi Really Bomb Amman?
[11/14/2005 9:58:00 AM]
By Dr. Elias Akleh
Many people believe the lie that Al-Zarqawi had sent four suicide bombers, including husband and wife, to Amman to bomb three hotels “centers for launching war on Islam” and “a backyard for the enemies of faith ..the Jews and the crusaders” as claimed on the webpage of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. As in Iraq the bombing succeeded in killing only Arabs, who happen to be Sunni Moslems, the group Al-Zarqawi claim to defend in Iraq, “the bombing came in response to the conspiracy against the Sunnis” in Iraq, Al-Qaeda webpage stated. Al-Zarqawi is a myth created by American psychological operation to benefit the colonial expansion of the “American/Israeli/British Triad” in the Arab World. Accusing Al-Zarqawi of Amman’s bombing is just a cover up for a more sinister political assassination. (snip)
http://www.arab2000.net/wnewsDetails.asp?id=28293&cid=25