Posted on 01/23/2007 8:15:32 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
A MAN claiming to represent al-Qaeda in Australia has left a telephone message at an Arabic Australian newspaper threatening to kill its editor-in-chief and destroy its offices in Sydney and Melbourne.
Apparently reading from a script, the Arabic-speaking caller threatened to butcher every Iraqi Kurd and Shiite in Australia.
ASIO and NSW police are investigating the message, left for al-Furat editor-in-chief Hussein Khoshnow 10 days ago.
The caller claims his "well-structured organisation" will track down the names and addresses of the newspaper's reporters.
"We will destroy the newspaper's headquarters in Sydney very soon, God willing," the caller says. "We will destroy the newspaper's headquarters in Melbourne. You will be butchered. Every Iraqi Kurd and Shiite in Australia will be butchered."
The threats, made on Sunday, January 14, were left on the answering machine in the newspaper's Fairfield office. They appeared to have been written down and then read over the phone in Arabic.
"Judging by the voice, I think it was a young man and from the way he spoke Arabic, his vocabulary and his accent, I think he might have been born here but of Yemeni or Syrian origin," Mr Khoshnow said.
The caller appeared to assume, incorrectly, that Mr Khoshnow was a Shiite and said: "You Shiites are dogs. You are scum, to be trodden underfoot. From Moqtada al-Sadr to Hassan Nasrallah, all your leaders are dogs and scum. Do not think that the death of Saddam will save you. We will deter you with terrorism here inside Australia.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
you kidding? libs doesn’t believe radical Islam is dangerous, libs think the Christians are out to get them. Kinda like a boogie man under their bed.
Maybe we will be lucky enough to see Australia take the initiative, realizing it is facing a lost cause, and start deporting Muslims back to their countries of origin. Lacking the resolve for that, at least not letting A SINGLE ONE OF THEM IN FROM HERE ON IN/
Don't take any confidence from it. The Shia are only 15% of Muslims worldwide, and while a general Sunni-Shai war would take the heat of the West for a while and solve the Iran problem, the Sunni would win, and the
result would likely be the proclaimation of a Caliphate that would claim the
loyalty of the Muslim masses in Europe as well as controlling a fair bit of
the Middle East.
Simply lovely people, aren't they??
Thanks for the slide show. Very enlightening.
At a guess, caller and organization is an Iraqi Sunni?
Do they need the numbers at the NY TIMES? I'll be glad to help them communicate.
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