on 30-07-2014 09:01 AM
So how long before we have a bomb go off here or a terrorist attack of some description in Australia?
Its comming....
ARREST warrants issued for two western Sydney men fighting with a banned terrorist group in Syria and Iraq have triggered a defiant and chilling response, with one of the pair warning of “fireworks coming up soon” for Australia.
Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elomar are believed to be fighting with extremist group the Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS, and have been under the watch of Australian authorities since at least December, when they left the country.
As revealed by The Australian last Friday, both men apparently uploaded several extremely graphic images to Twitter. The images show a beaming Elomar holding the decapitated heads of two Syrian soldiers who appear to have been killed during, or after, the fighting around Raqqa, which has seen some of the bloodiest fighting of the war.
The captions with the pictures suggest Elomar participated in the killings. One of them, written by Sharrouf, reads: “few more heads how lovely bludy amazing stuff abuhafs u keep on cutting those infidel throats but the last 1 is mine! (sic).’’
Sharrouf’s Twitter account now appears to have been shut down but declarations on Elomar’s account last night, in response to news of the warrants, included the ominous, “Don’t worry ASIO there is plenty of work for you guys coming up.” Posted on the same account was the declaration: “Did you think I would leave your country without leaving a surprise. Fireworks coming up soon keep a close eye.”
Earlier on the same account, in response to a Twitter follower who wrote “don’t come back to Australia, we don’t want you back”, was the apparent threat that “dnt worry wouldn’t want to go bk u should be more worried about wats coming to Australia!”.
Despite repeated revelations in The Australian in recent weeks about the pair’s activities, it took until yesterday for the warrants to be issued. “The AFP can confirm it has obtained arrest warrants for Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elomar,” an AFP spokesman told The Australian last night. “The warrants relate to alleged terrorism-related activity.”
Attorney-General George Brandis has condemned the photos and said if they were real they were evidence of serious crimes against Australian law and possible war crimes. Senator Brandis has also expressed concern about the threat posed to Australians by returning Islamist fighters.
Melbourne teenager Adam Dahman, 18, this month reportedly became the second suicide bomber from Australia, after killing three people in Baghdad.
Sharrouf has previously spent time in jail for his part in a foiled attempt to bomb targets in Melbourne and Sydney. Last month The Australian ran a picture of Sharrouf posing among the bodies of captured Iraqis apparently killed in a mass execution.
AFP counter-terrorism head Neil Gaughan said: “As soon as (Sharrouf and Elomar) set foot on Australian soil they will be taken into custody.”
on 30-07-2014 09:35 AM
So how long before we have a bomb go off here or a terrorist attack of some description in Australia?
Sydney Hilton anyone?
Or does that not count because the perpertrators weren't muslims?
on 30-07-2014 09:37 AM
on 30-07-2014 09:41 AM
Referring back to the Hilton bombing in no way mitigates what's coming for us in our country at the hand of extremist Muslims. They hate us and all we stand in the west for so they will attack us and anybody who thinks this type of thing cannot happen here is either stupid or partisan.
Calling the race card for these terroists is appalling, we are still allowed to express an opinion on muslim extremist terrorism and we should.
on 30-07-2014 09:54 AM
@i-need-a-martini wrote:So how long before we have a bomb go off here or a terrorist attack of some description in Australia?
Sydney Hilton anyone?
Or does that not count because the perpertrators weren't muslims?
Should I say just for you, in the PRESENT AND the NEAR FUTURE.... NOT the past.....
So the question again for you so you are not living in the past is So how long before we have a bomb go off here or a terrorist attack of some description in Australia? now or in the near future as per the TOPIC and the threat
on 30-07-2014 10:36 AM
on 30-07-2014 11:29 AM
@kilroy_is_here wrote:
Martini you can not appease fanatics , sadly it will take blood and devastation of innocent Australians in there own homes before you see that. Why do you think islamics here do not stand up and condemn the radicals ,they know what's coming and what the radicals will do to them if they do.
There were Muslim people on TV yesterday who were did condemn the actions of the few extremists.
on 30-07-2014 11:36 AM
@kilroy_is_here wrote:
Martini you can not appease fanatics , sadly it will take blood and devastation of innocent Australians in there own homes before you see that. Why do you think islamics here do not stand up and condemn the radicals ,they know what's coming and what the radicals will do to them if they do.
of course they do, we see it regularly, the condemnation of the radicals.
on 30-07-2014 11:43 AM
on 30-07-2014 11:54 AM