Neo-Terror

Australia's M1A1's on display

"New crop of Jihadis is 'set to step up',"

by Natalie O'Brien for

The Australian:

A NEW crop of home-grown jihadis, groomed to step up and replace the leaders of Australian terror cells who have been arrested or jailed, is almost "mature" enough to launch an operation, an international terror expert has warned.

The warning came after the release of figures showing the Australian Federal Police had 76 new counter-terrorism cases to investigate in the past financial year. At June 30 last year, the AFP had 83 cases being examined by its counter-terrorism team.

The latest so-called network of militant extremists has been steadily evolving and its members are almost ready to take over from their predecessors, according to Rohan Gunaratna, international terrorism expert and the author of Inside al-Qa'ida.

Dr Gunaratna said the home-grown terror suspects had been under investigation by Australian law enforcement agencies for some time. The new networks were very similar in "character and composition" to those that had been disrupted by law enforcement agencies.

"Law enforcement has only peeled back one layer of jihadis," he said. "The second rung is maturing and ripe for another operation, possibly in the coming months."

Intelligence sources say they are aware of the new threats, but deny there is any evidence that the groups may be close to planning an attack in Australia.

The AFP yesterday declined to comment on Dr Gunaratna's warnings.

AFP Commissioner Mick Keelty and NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione have revealed that they are investigating new terrorist threats, particularly in NSW.

Statistics in the latest AFP annual report show that in 2006-07, they had 76 new counter-terrorism cases, they finalised another 83 cases and at June 2006 they had a total of 83 open cases.

Link/Related:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/019736.php

Comments below come with excellent advise on how to

educate

from the above JW link:

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Paging all my fellow Australians who read here but may not necessarily post here.

Think about this article.

Then let's think about your networks. Do you know people, are you related to, do you go to church with, or do sports with, or go fishing with, people who are in the police force, army, army reserve or coastguard?

A pilot, a flight attendant, an airport or port worker? Do you belong to the RSL (for the benefit of non-Australian readers, that's the Returned Servicemen's League) or the SES (State Emergency Services) or Bush Fire Brigade, or know people who do? Are you connected to journalists or lawyers? Do you know a prison chaplain?

These are the people you should be educating. Printouts of 'Islam 101' from this site, or Hugh Fitzgerald's 'Islam for Infidels' as archived here, or - depending on the relationship - a nice unbirthday present of 'PIG to Islam and the Crusades' or 'The Truth About Muhammad'.
Above all: do not forget your state and federal MPs and your Senator.

Please: report back here and tell everyone else about anything you've tried, that works.

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In the USA there's an 'anti-terrorism' caucus in Congress.

Time to find out if any of our Aussie politicians would be game to attempt a bipartisan 'counter-jihad counter-sharia' caucus, or something approximating thereto, in Federal Parliament and in our State Parliaments.

...and Austrailias upcoming removal of its troops in Muslim countries will not guarrantee a ceasation of future planned Muslim attacks in Australia....

....many Islamic leaders have virtually declared war on the non Islamic world...and it is time to fight back...in every way possible....surveillance, espionage, arrests, trials and long sentences help...so would a ban on Muslim Immigration

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Seeing as you paged fellow Aussies, I thought that I should reply.

I hope that I can give you some good news.

You see, I am a teacher in a private Catholic school. One of my subjects is religion. When we dealt with World Religions I made wide use of Jihad Watch, especially Islam 101.

Many of the boys were astounded with what they learnt. They too, just as I used to, bought the line that Islam is a religion of peace. I also found the videos available on MEMRI invaluable.

As many posters have said, the greatest way to show the world what a threat Islam poses to the West is to listen to Muslims themselves. Finally, those who are now apostates from Islam are a great resource. They know the religion inside out and their personal testimonies and courage are inspiriing.

The hardest people to convince about the threat that Islam poses to us were my colleagues.

They just wanted to believe all that they had heard about Islam being a religion of peace and that the radicals had perverted its true message. I doubt any of them had bothered reading the Koran for themselves. Some went into no more depth than looking at the five pillars of Islam.

So mate, some of us are fighting back with the most powerful weapon of all, the mind.

Cheers.

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