Qaeda - Trained Australian Man Captured

Reuters via NYTimes.com ^ | 12/11/2001

[marshmallow]

I have no idea whether there are active terrorist cells in Australia (and neither do you). My point was that the countries from which al-Qaeda draws its support is rather surprising.

[Ciexyz]

Another loser. Age 26, and he's off playing guerrilla warrior? Get a life.

[Slapper]

Thank God the guy wasn't a Kiwi or we'd never hear the end of it on here......

If that situation did arise, we`d be just as keen to drop a daisycutter on him as you.

We just object to the occasional poster who says that all Kiwis are stupid liberals because we have a Labour government. If we said that all Americans are dishonest (and worse) because Bill Clinton is an American, you`d be mighty pissed off, and you`d have every right.

You can`t tar nearly 4 million people with the same brush.

[BellyBoy]

Yeah I knew as soon as i posted it i have as much clue whether they are as you do or dont so i take that back.

He still deserves to be treated like all the others though.

[Bill Rice]

Thanks to the Media, "ISLAMIC TRAINING" keeps making me think of guys with lobotomies, wearing sandals and draperies going across a set of monkey bars.

Ooh... They look scary!

[eureka!]

Re#16 No suprise there, is it? This "war" will indeed be far reaching...

[wideawake]

I think you may remember a certain "Croatian national" who briefly hijacked and flipped a Greyhound bus in Tennessee after knifing the driver.

The incident was supposedly unrelated to the events of 9/11.

However, the guy in question was from a Bosnian border town.

There are thousands of Albanian and Bosnian Muslims in the US, many of whom were welcomed as refugees.

[MizSterious]

I seem to recall he was armed with a boxcutter, also.

[gfactor]

I bet there are many Liberals here in the US that would LOVE to fight with the Taliban; they just don't want to admit it

Would these be the feminist or the civil liberty, get religion out of schools/govt types?

[GringoInChile]

I know there are Bosnians in Australia....refugees from the Yugoslavian civil wars....I would bet you he is a Bosnian muslim.

The Sydney Morning Herald is showing his name and photo. With a name like David Hicks I doubt that he's Bosnian, more probably a fair dinkum Ozzie bloke.