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The terror raids have begun!

Looks huge on the news.....interesting that a neighbour has stated that she knew the guy for many years and he seemed ordinary, now you wouldn't expect them to walk around with a sign would you lol

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Very true this and the attitude from the left..

 

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The police arnt doing the raids to pick on Muslims.

 

 

no they're not. operation appleby is not anti-muslim -

so what triggered it?

 

 

THEY began as small-time local recruiters of wannabe jihadist fighters in western Sydney, picking up the business for a mate who had been thrown into jail.

 

Within seven months they were talking about detonating a car bomb in Australia, potentially killing dozens. And then, on Tuesday night, the gruesome order came through from the Middle East. It was from their friend, former Kings Cross bouncer and now senior Islamic State commander, Mohammed Baryalei: go out on the streets of Sydney and kill “a random kaffir (non-­believer)”.

The story behind the alleged terror cell targeted by Operation Appleby, the largest counter-­terror probe in Australia, is a tale of how disaffected Muslim youths can slide easily and inexorably under the toxic spell of the Islamic State terror group.

Their story could, if not for the actions of security agencies, have ended in a public beheading of an Australian. Yet it began almost by accident in a NSW jail cell in December last year when 39-year-old Sydney man Hamdi Alqudsi was charged with having organised for at least six people to travel to Syria to fight.

Alqudsi, whose wife had once been sentenced to six months in jail for falsely accusing a policeman of forcibly trying to remove her burka, was a popular figure among Sydney’s hardline Islamists.

 

 

Police could not help but notice those who turned up in court to support him; they refused ­requests by the NSW sheriff’s officer to remove their hats in court.

Police had hoped that Alqudsi’s arrest would slow the flow of Australians trying to get to Syria to fight, but they soon realised that his friends and supporters were planning to keep his business going while he was behind bars.

Police quickly identified a group of 17 young men who were, in Alqudsi’s absence, co-ordinating efforts to recruit wannabe Australian jihadists to take up the fight with the Islamic State.

The men were mostly from western Sydney, poorly educated, in relatively menial jobs and were highly energised by the conflict in Syria and the supposedly holy war against the dictator Bashar al-Assad.

Their point-man in Syria was Mohammad Ali Baryalei, an Afghan refugee who had come to Australia as a child and who had worked in a Kings Cross nightclub and also as a part-time actor, once scoring a minor role on the gangland drama Underbelly.

A devout Muslim who once roamed the streets of Sydney trying to convert people, the 33-year-old Baryalei left for Syria in April last year to fight with militants.

 

Once there, he quickly established himself as the most important recruiter of Australians in Syria, and, after initially joining the al-Qa’ida affiliate terror group Jabhat al-Nusra, Baryalei joined the fast-rising Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (now Islamic State).

It was Baryalei who lured to Syria the notorious Khaled Sharrouf, whose nine-year-old son was recently photographed holding the severed head of a Syrian soldier, and also his friend Mohamed Elomar, who has taken part in executions.

Police estimate Baryalei has been responsible for the recruitment of more than 30 of the 60 Australians believed to have travelled there to fight. Early this year, authorities began to monitor communications between Baryalei and some of the 17 young men he wanted to act as his jihadist recruiters in Sydney.

The plan was that they would send their recruits from Australia to Turkey, where they would meet Baryalei and he would take them into the warzone. Unlike some extremists, this group did not use social media to communicate with Baryalei and were said to be more sophisticated than most in trying to hide their intentions.

Even so, authorities noticed that this emerging group had a rough hierarchical structure, with four of the 17 men, including 22-year-old Omarjan Azari who was charged with terror offences yesterday, assuming a leading role in their dealings with Baryalei.

 

The group was also in close touch with Alqudsi, taking instructions from him and visiting him while he was in jail.

In early May, after the group’s contact with Baryalei increased, the Australian Federal Police decided to have a formal investigation into the group, dubbing it Operation Appleby.

But the group’s recruitment efforts were frustrated by ASIO, which on several occasions cancelled the passports of the person Azari’s group was trying to recruit, preventing them from leaving Australia.

Then, early last month, came the game-changer. As Islamic State was conducting its murderous rampage through northwest Iraq, the group received a phone call from Baryalei in which he asked the group to carry out an attack in Australia.

Authorities listened in as some of the group discussed packing a vehicle with explosives and detonating it.

The group did not say what the target of the attack would be and it was clear that they were only in the early stages of discussion.

Authorities debated what to do, but decided that because they had the group well covered and would know if they were getting close to creating such a bomb, that they would “let it run” to try to gather more evidence.

The more they watched the group, the more suspicious links they found. One of those to visit the group in Sydney was Omar Succarieh, 31, brother of Australia’s first suicide bomber in Syria, Ahmed Succarieh.

 

Succarieh, from Logan, south of Brisbane, was arrested on raids across southeast Queensland last week and is accused of providing funds to al-Nusra and preparing for hostile incursions into Syria.

The federal government is adamant that ASIO did not lift the terror threat level last Friday because of this alleged Sydney terror cell alone, but the group was considered the most significant of the current threats being monitored by ASIO and the AFP.

Then on Tuesday this week authorities monitored a call between Baryalei and Azari in which Baryalei allegedly demanded that Azari go out and kill a random non-Muslim as a demonstration of Islamic State’s intent.

During the call there was no reason given for this sudden change of plan, but Baryalei had many reasons to be angry. It could have been prompted by ASIO’s decision to lift the terror threat level. Or by the commitment last week of a sizeable Australian military contingent, including 600 troops, to help fight Islamic State in Iraq. Or by the arrest last week of Baryalei’s friend Succarieh. Or by the AFP’s announcement last week that it had issued an arrest warrant for Baryalei.

In the intercepted conversation the actual word “behead” was not used but it was allegedly implied by a suggestion that a flag be draped around the victim’s head and that their death be videoed and placed on social media, similar to the recent beheading executions by Islamic State of two US journalists and a British aid worker.

 

A vague long-term plan to detonate a car bomb was one thing, but a here-and-now order to execute an Australian in cold blood was a crime that could take place at any time.

Counter-terror chiefs held urgent meetings to decide what to do. They discussed the murder by Islamic extremists of British soldier Lee Rigby on a London street in May last year. It was clear they could not guarantee there would be no repeat of such an attack on the streets of Sydney. There really was no choice; they had to go in immediately.

In barely 24 hours, about 870 police officers were mobilised and raids were planned on more than 27 homes in two states with the aim of detaining and questioning 17 men. Tony Abbott was briefed on Wednesday evening.

In the pre-dawn light yesterday they swooped. With helicopters hovering overhead, dozens of police raided homes across Sydney and Brisbane. Operation Appleby had broken open the single largest cell of Islamic State sympathisers in Australia and had almost certainly thwarted a terrorist attack.

 

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/terror/the-order-to-kill-that-triggered-operation-appleby/s...

 

 

 

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And therefore the war.

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@polksaladallie wrote:

And therefore the war.


 So are you happy that we have terriosts on our soil  I take it and you object to the terror raids?  Would that be correct?

 

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ASIO and hundreds of police raid Sydney and Brisbane homes in biggest counter-terrorism raid in Australia’s history

 

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/asio-and-hundreds-of-police-raid-sydney-and-brisbane-homes...

 

  • Massive pre-dawn operation in Sydney and Brisbane involving 600 officers
  • ASIO and counter-terrorism operation swooped on homes in north-western Sydney and Brisbane
  • Suspected terrorist cell was ‘close to an attack’
  • Several arrests made as one suspect taken by Federal Police
  • Raids come the day after the suspension of a Sydney firm suspected of funding terrorism

ASIO and counter terrorism police have swooped on homes across north-western Sydney and other states this morning in what is believed to be the largest anti-terrorism bust in the nation’s history.

 

 

Several arrests have been made in the secret pre-dawn raid, which is still in progress and one suspect has been taken into Australian Federal Police custody.

 

The AFP says a suspected terrorist cell was “close to an attack.”

 

The arrests follow the execution of a number of search warrants in Beecroft, Bellavista, Guildford, Merrylands, Northmead, Wentworthville, Marsfield, Westmead, Castle Hill, Revesby, Bass Hill and Regents Park.

 

The Australian Federal Police can also confirm it is conducting search warrants in Brisbane.

 

Warrants are being executed in the suburbs of Mount Gravatt East, Logan and Underwood.

 

http://www.9news.com.au/national/2014/09/18/05/44/afp-conduct-terror-raids-in-western-sydney

 

 

 
 

Hundreds of police officers have searched homes in Sydney and Brisbane this morning in the largest terror raids in Australian history.

 

It's understood the operation came amid reports a terrorist cell was close to launching an attack on Australian soil.

 

Police executed search warrants on 12 properties in Sydney at Beecroft, Bellavista, Guildford, Merrylands, Northmead, Wentworthville, Marsfield, Westmead, Castle Hill, Revesby, Bass Hill and Regents Park


Read more at http://www.9news.com.au/national/2014/09/18/05/44/afp-conduct-terror-raids-in-western-sydney#bTJi20Z...99

 

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What a coincidence, on the same day that the first troops to the war are to be farewelled. 

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There is only one problem with that line of reasoning. Australia is governed by the RULE OF LAW.

 

That is, at some point in time they will appear before a court where the prosecution will be required to prove their case, beyond a reasonable doubt.

 

So, if you are right then at some time in the near future, and most certainly before the next election, the government will be required put-up or shut-up, and if it’s shut up-pay the political piper.

 

So I’ll wait for the facts to immerge instead of gravitating towards the nearest convenient conspiracy theory.

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@polksaladallie wrote:

What a coincidence, on the same day that the first troops to the war are to be farewelled. 


 So you support the mass genocide and slaughter of people iRaq and the area by these terrorists by the sounds of your comments.

 

BUT anyway back on topic and that is the terror raids and terrorists  we  have on our soil in Australia who were planning an attack.

 

Do you support them and think the raids shouldn’t have happened or what? 

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@polksaladallie wrote:

What a coincidence, on the same day that the first troops to the war are to be farewelled. 


Plus the announcement of the no comment secret squirrel business turn back the boats success.

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to polka and freddie ref:


@polksaladallie wrote:

What a coincidence, on the same day that the first troops to the war are to be farewelled. 

freddie said:Plus the announcement of the no comment secret squirrel business turn back the boats success.

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crazy!.....I mean, Australia is swarming with terrorists ...*PPPPFfffttt

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One of the raids was made on a home in the suburb my sister lives in, last week, one was made on a home in my suburb, the guy was questioned and released.

I do hope no one ever goes through my computer's history! Woman Embarassed

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