Yutes?
Posted on 12/15/2005 2:41:21 PM PST by Flavius
LEBANESE youths and ethnic "lions" from Melbourne are preparing to join Sydney's race riots, with busloads of troublemakers rumoured to be heading north. Expectations among the young Lebanese community in western Sydney that further trouble will develop over the weekend comes despite calls from their religious leaders, police and politicians for both sides to calm down.
One 22-year-old ethnic Lebanese man yesterday told The Australian he and his friends were ready for a turf war. "The boys reckon it'll be like a scene out of Braveheart," he said.
Sources within the Lebanese community said three busloads of young men from Melbourne - Lebanese, Serbians, Italians and Greeks - and more than 30 carloads were expected to arrive in Sydney today and tomorrow.
"I've talked to a few mates in Melbourne and I know that some of my other buddies have too," said a 29-year-old Lebanese man from Lidcombe, in Sydney's west.
"We're expecting about 30 cars and a couple of busloads of Leb, Serb, Italian and Greek lions to punch on with us."
Advertisement: A Melbourne nightclub bouncer of Bosnian extraction also said word was "getting around" about groups of young men heading to Sydney to fight.
NSW police last night expressed concern about the possibility ethnic numbers would be bolstered by interstate visitors.
A Victorian police spokesman said the force was "monitoring the situation" but had no specific information about the plan.
Prominent Melbourne Muslim leader Waleed Aly yesterday discouraged his community from joining the fray. "It's a stupid thing to do," he said.
Gold Coast police are also bracing for trouble on Sunday, boosting on-duty numbers after text messages urged locals to "crack some skulls".
Police contingency plans have been made despite Queensland Premier Peter Beattie's view the text messages were a hoax.
Its the ISMs!
I hope they'll have permits for those swords they'll be carrying...
"ethnic Lebanese"
So, Lebanese has suddenly become an ethnicity? Also, I somehow doubt that Serbians are fighting alongside Muslims of any "ethnicity."
Leb, Serb, Greek and Italian? So it is racial after all, and not religious - the swarthy Mediteraneans vs. the Brits?
Mrs VS
Thanks for the laugh. That was a killer scene.
Every punk rioting should have a glass bowl put on their heads with a few funnelwebs.
"Like Braveheart"?
Read a bit more Scottish history, Abdul. Especially the bit about the "clearings"
"Leb, Serb, Greek and Italian? So it is racial after all, and not religious - the swarthy Mediteraneans vs. the Brits?"
Somebody's in for a surprise, come this weekend. Is it us, or is it these Serbs, Greeks and Italians?
I've read up enough to think it's not us.
What the heck is that?
From My Cousin Vinny. Vinny was from New York, so he pronounced "youths" as "yutes." The Southern judge could't understand him.
I trust in sarcasm.
This has nothing to do with Islamic Jihad. It never does.
Anything but the truth.
Somebody got Road Warrior pics?
All the children sing,
We don't need another Hero.
We don't need to know the way home.
All we want is life beyond,
Islam!
Drawing all the terrorists into one place, like Iraq.
Oh yeah now I remember. Great flick.
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