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Accused 'found near reactor'
news.com.au ^ | 14 Nov 05

Posted on 11/13/2005 5:18:43 PM PST by Fair Go

Accused 'found near reactor' 14-11-2005 From: AAP

POLICE stopped three alleged terrorists near the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor in December 2004, a court has been told.

The police fact sheet tendered in relation to eight Sydney terrorist suspects who faced Sydney's Central Local Court last Friday was released this morning. The document states that Mazen Touma, Mohammed Elomar and Abdul Rakib Hasan were stopped in their car by NSW police near the nuclear facility at Lucas Heights, in Sydney's south, in December 2004.

The men also had a trail bike and claimed they were there to ride it, the document said.

But according to the fact sheet, when interviewed separately, all three gave different versions of the day's events to police.

"Police inquiries revealed the access lock for a gate to a reservoir of the reactor had recently been cut," the fact sheet said.

Touma, Elomar and Hasan, along with five other Sydney men, have been charged with conspiring to manufacture explosives in preparation for a terrorist act.

They will reappear in Central Local Court on December 5.


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: arrests; australia; lucasheights; newsthatwontfit; nuclearreactor; terrorism; terrorist; trop
Why even liberals should be taking the terrorism threat very seriously.
1 posted on 11/13/2005 5:18:44 PM PST by Fair Go
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To: Fair Go

If terrorists ever blew up a nuclear reactor, liberals would blame the reactor.


2 posted on 11/13/2005 5:22:42 PM PST by Cagey (Some men are Baptists, others Catholics, my father was an Oldsmobile man.)
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To: Fair Go
"Why even liberals should be taking the terrorism threat very seriously"

Yes, but don't hold your breath expecting it to happen..... the liberal-left depravity says that everything bad in the world is the fault of Bush-Blair and that if only we had surrendered after 9/11 the Islamo-fascists would be treating us just fine now. We could be slaves in dhimmitude and submission, but at least we wouldn't have the evil George W. Bush and puppet-master Dick Cheney irritating those poor downtrodden terrorists.......
3 posted on 11/13/2005 5:23:22 PM PST by Enchante (Joe Wilson: "I don't know anything about uranium, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn last night!")
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To: Cagey
"If terrorists ever blew up a nuclear reactor, liberals would blame the reactor."

NO! The libs would blame Bush!

4 posted on 11/13/2005 5:50:02 PM PST by manwiththehands
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To: Fair Go

Is it my imagination, or have our Aussie friends been a real target to IslamoFacists lately?


5 posted on 11/13/2005 5:51:40 PM PST by manwiththehands
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To: manwiththehands

Well yea, him too. But, my point is that libs hate Nuclear energy as much as they hate guns. God knows it's always the gun that is responsible for murders and not the shooter with them.

They would no doubt shout it to anyone who would listen that if it were not for the Nuclear Plant being there, this never would have happened.


6 posted on 11/13/2005 5:52:50 PM PST by Cagey (Some men are Baptists, others Catholics, my father was an Oldsmobile man.)
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To: Fair Go

Are you kidding? They can't even take themselves seriously.


7 posted on 11/13/2005 6:02:18 PM PST by Lancer_N3502A
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To: manwiththehands

Australians have been a target of them since at least 1999. I don't think we've become more of a target recently. I think what has happened is that we've just become a lot better at detecting the threats.

And part of that, honestly, does seem to come from the Moslem community. September 11 got Australians, in general, thinking about terrorism.

Bali made it quite clear to those who were still in denial that disassociating ourselves from America wouldn't save us.

The London bombings - well, that finally triggered moderate Moslems into action. They were forced to decide whether they were Moslems first and Australians second, or Australians first and Moslems second. At least some (with luck, maybe even most) decided that to put country above religion - and they've started giving security forces the information they need.


8 posted on 11/13/2005 6:18:58 PM PST by naturalman1975 (Sure, give peace a chance - but si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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To: Fair Go
Accused 'found near reactor'

Maybe they were just a group of comic book fans trying to acquire super powers....

9 posted on 11/13/2005 6:32:02 PM PST by Alex Murphy (Psalm 73)
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To: Fair Go

bump


10 posted on 11/13/2005 6:37:38 PM PST by VOA
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To: naturalman1975

Correct.


11 posted on 11/13/2005 6:39:07 PM PST by Fair Go
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To: manwiththehands

It ain't just been lately. The first major attack after 9/11 targeted Australians in Bali.


12 posted on 11/13/2005 9:07:37 PM PST by thoughtomator (Bring Back HCUA!)
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To: Fair Go

Time is not on our side. We need to go WW2 on this WOT.


13 posted on 11/14/2005 4:12:13 AM PST by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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