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"Accused 'could launch 35-hour barrage' (Sydney muslim terror plot)"
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,19922815-2,00.html ^ | July 27, 2006 | Simon Kearney

Posted on 07/26/2006 7:16:09 PM PDT by Mount Athos

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "ONE of the men accused of plotting a terrorist attack in Australia had enough military-style ammunition to launch a continuous 35-hour barrage of gunfire. The evidence, from a ballistics expert, was quoted in court documents revealed yesterday as part of the case against nine Sydney men accused of planning an attack last year.

The prosecution case against the group is so large it has been broken into 93 parts.

Court documents allege that as well as planning to construct improvised explosive devices, a massive arsenal was part of the group's plans for an attack.

They show that a search in June last year of the home of one of the accused, Mohamed Ali Elomar, unearthed a cache of 12 rifles and pistols and 28,198 rounds of ammunition including 11,765 rounds of 7.62-calibre ammunition.

"A ballistics expert has stated it would take approximately 34 hours and 48 minutes to fire all the 7.6239mm rounds in the possession of Elomar with the 7.62 rifle owned by Elomar which was seized by police," the court documents said. When he was arrested in November, two pistols were found under his pillow.

Two more of the accused, Bradley Umar Baladjam and Mazen Touma were observed in June last year loading 7500 rounds of the same 7.62-calibre ammuni tion into a truck, which police later seized. "This type of ammunition is used in SKS or AK-47 type semi-automatic weapons," the documents say.

Baladjam also tried to purchase a further 20,000 rounds of the 7.62 ammunition between July and August last year.

The evidence includes dozens of statements from gun dealers about visits to gun shops and shooting ranges.

Police and intelligence agencies watched the nine men's every move for more than a year before arresting them, even allowing them to take a "controlled delivery" of some chemicals that could be used in a bomb."

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"Castro Goons Attack U.S. reporter"
Newsmax ^ | 7/26/06 | Humberto Fontova

Posted on 07/26/2006 5:43:39 PM PDT by slickeroo

U.S. Reporter Attacked by Castro Goons in Argentina

Humberto Fontova

Thursday, July 27, 2006

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "For the first time in 50 years a U.S. reporter actually asked Fidel Castro a pertinent question. This journalistic landmark took place last week while Castro visited Argentina. Castro (naturally) freaked. Why, the NERVE!!

"You're a mercenary paid by the Bush!" he shrieked. "Who pays you? You'll probably try to assassinate me with a bomb!"

As Castro yelled and sputtered, his bodyguards sprang into Kung Fu mode and pounced on the offending reporter chokeholding him and threatening much worse if he persisted in his impertinence.

Did you see this reported anywhere in the MSM (mainstream media)? But that was some obscure Latin American meeting, you say. That stuff is rarely reported anyway.

Actually, it was a major international summit for MERCOSUR (Common Market of the South), and Castro's visit was reported extensively by the international media, from the AP to Reuters, from the BBC to the Boston Globe to the Washington Post. A Google News search hits 500 stories of the event. But you will find no mention of this incident in any of this exhaustive reportage."