Looks like Australia is going to war!
Aug 13, 2014 1:08:07 GMT 10
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Post by brad on Aug 13, 2014 1:08:07 GMT 10
I find this very interesting that this was posted at midnight, not only that but within a minute there is a comment promoting war and supporting this new article. Wouldn't you think this would be headline news for prime time???
Looks like America has found a way out of debt and they are going to drag Australia in with them. Look at the last wars America has started, false evidence, paying "witnesses" and all for money.
www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/defence/global-drive-to-tackle-threat-of-foreign-jihadis/story-e6frg8yo-1227022416404
Global drive to tackle threat of foreign jihadis
The Australian
August 13, 2014 12:00AM
The US and Australia will lead an urgent push in the UN for a concerted global strategy to deal with what Australia’s chief spy last night warned was the “serious threat” of foreign citizens fighting as jihadists in Syria and Iraq.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said the “iconic” photograph of Australian terrorist Khaled Sharrouf’s seven-year-old son holding up the severed head of a Syrian soldier should spur the world to act against Islamic State jihadists.
His comments came as ASIO director-general David Irvine warned Australians were joining “the worst of the worst” of global jihadists and the conflicts in Syria and Iraq were forging a new generation of Islamist radicals, potentially transforming the terror threat for decades to come. And Attorney-General George Brandis declared the problem of large numbers of Australians fighting in Syria and Iraq had its origins in “our own suburbs”.
Britain’s The Sun yesterday. Source: Supplied
AUSMIN: What you need to know
Mr Irvine said the scale of the Syrian jihad, which had attracted thousands of foreign fighters and about 60 Australians, had created a “new hub’’ for Islamist extremists. “Those with extremist groups in Syria and Iraq who are returning here — or other countries —— represent a serious threat,” he said in a speech to the Australian Institute of International Affairs last night.
“We have seen tens of Australians return already. Experience suggests upon return some will disengage from extremist activities. But others will have had their Islamist extremist mindset reinforced by their experience.
“They will also hold an increased status and influence for some in the communities to which they have returned, giving them the potential ability to radicalise others. The networks both here and overseas, experience and expertise that they have now gained — and can offer to others — will perpetuate the scale of the threat posed.”
FULL TEXT: AUSMIN 2014 joint communique
The jihadist issue became a major focus of the AUSMIN talks on defence, security and foreign affairs issues in Sydney yesterday
Mr Kerry said the US would, in the northern autumn, take up at the UN the need to build a unified approach to jihadists returning from the battlefields of Iraq and Syria. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop promised Australia’s strong backing at the UN.
The US Secretary of State — a Vietnam War veteran who famously testified to congress about war crimes committed by American troops — said the image, published on The Australian’s front page on Monday, demonstrated how extreme Islamic State’s ideology was.
“This image, perhaps even an iconic photograph ... is really one of the most disturbing, stomach-turning, grotesque photographs ever displayed,” he said. “A seven-year-old child holding a severed head up with pride and with the support and encouragement of a parent with brothers there.
“That child should be in school and that child should be out learning about the future.
“That child should be out playing with other kids, not holding a severed head and out in the field of combat.
“This is utterly disgraceful and it underscores the degree to which IS is so far beyond the pale in respect to any standard by which we judge even terrorist groups that al-Qa’ida shunted them aside. And that’s why they represent the threat that they represent. And it is no accident that every country in the region is opposed to IS.”
FULL TEXT: David Irvine’s speech
Mr Irvine told the Australian Institute of International Affairs that ASIO’s long-standing concern about “lone wolf’’ terrorists, or small cells of extremists — long considered the most likely perpetrators of a domestic attack — had been supplanted by the prospect of a new threat: a wave of battle-hardened jihadists returning from Iraq and Syria. “This is creating a new generation of Islamist extremists, much as happened in Afghanistan in the late 1990s and early 2000s — a cohort whose activities and experience we spent many years subsequently having to contend,’’ Mr Irvine said.
These conflicts, and the extremist ideology they had spawned, were increasingly attracting young Australians. Mr Irvine cited the recent case of Adam Dahman, the Melbourne teen who killed himself in a Baghdad suicide bombing.
“These terrorist organisations, which young Australians are joining, are willing to sacrifice young brain-washed souls in the name of a distorted, hate-filled interpretation of Islam,’’ Mr Irvine said. “What we have seen so far probably represents only the first manifestation of this threat. The unprecedented numbers involved and the diverse range of source countries mean that even if only a portion eventually poses a threat, the scale of this will be considerable.’’
Mr Irvine praised the Muslim community for doing what it could to counter the attraction of radical Islam. He rejected suggestions of a 100-year war with Islam: “Let me reiterate, we are not fighting Islam, in Australia or anywhere else. We are fighting the terrorism that kills innocent people, both Muslim and non-Muslim.’’
The Australian National Imams Council yesterday broke its silence on the picture of Sharrouf’s son to condemn it.
Grand Mufti Ibrahim Abu Mohamed said it was “utterly deplorable for extremists to use Islam as a cover for their crimes and atrocities’’. “Their misguided actions do not represent the overwhelming majority of Muslims who emulate the pure teachings of Islam such as justice, mercy and freedom,” Professor Mohamed said. The council noted that Sharrouf was a diagnosed schizophrenic.
Senator Brandis last night told Sky News’s Richo + Jones that the relatively large number of Australians fighting in Syria and Iraq had taken authorities by surprise. “Per capita we have more foreign fighters in this theatre than any other country outside the Middle East and that is very, very disturbing,” he said.
“This is not a problem that exists on the other side of the world. This is a problem that has its origins in our own suburbs where jihadists and people who support their evil cause recruit young men … from within Islamic communities.”
Senator Brandis said the men were brain-washed with a bizarre and perverse, extreme interpretation of Islam. “They facilitate and finance their travel to this theatre where they become more hardened, in some cases trained in terrorist trade craft with a view to going into cities in the West, including coming back to Australia, and pursuing a terrorist agenda and we are determined to ensure that does not happen.”
The Australian was told last night that two RAAF C-130 Hercules transport aircraft would within hours begin dropping relief supplies to thousands of Iraqis from the Yazidi minority facing genocide at the hands of the Islamists.
Tony Abbott was due to meet British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and Defence Secretary Michael Fallon in London overnight to discuss Australia’s assistance in the Iraq mission. The Prime Minister said the British meetings were important because “this is a difficult and dangerous world’’.
“It is important that Australia stays in the closest possible touch with our friends and partners and equally with this developing situation in the Middle East,’’ Mr Abbott said.
Mr Kerry said the prospect of a new government in Iraq meant the US was “without any question ... prepared to consider additional political, economic and security options” if Iraqis worked together in a way they failed to under Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite who the US has accused of oppressing Sunnis and thereby helping fuel the success of IS.
Mr Kerry said it might involve “training or equipment or assistance of one kind or another” being provided to Iraqi forces “that can help them stand on their own two feet”.
Mr Kerry stressed there would be no reintroduction of American combat forces to Iraq.
Additional reporting: Jared Owens, Jacquelin Magnay, Phillip Hudson
And within a minute of this being posted there is this comment:
Roger 48 minutes ago
Send in the troops, destroy ISIS, arrest Sharrouf and send him to Guantanamo Bay! And for goodness sakes, close the al-Risalah Islamic Centre in Bankstown!!!
Looks like America has found a way out of debt and they are going to drag Australia in with them. Look at the last wars America has started, false evidence, paying "witnesses" and all for money.
www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/defence/global-drive-to-tackle-threat-of-foreign-jihadis/story-e6frg8yo-1227022416404
Global drive to tackle threat of foreign jihadis
The Australian
August 13, 2014 12:00AM
The US and Australia will lead an urgent push in the UN for a concerted global strategy to deal with what Australia’s chief spy last night warned was the “serious threat” of foreign citizens fighting as jihadists in Syria and Iraq.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said the “iconic” photograph of Australian terrorist Khaled Sharrouf’s seven-year-old son holding up the severed head of a Syrian soldier should spur the world to act against Islamic State jihadists.
His comments came as ASIO director-general David Irvine warned Australians were joining “the worst of the worst” of global jihadists and the conflicts in Syria and Iraq were forging a new generation of Islamist radicals, potentially transforming the terror threat for decades to come. And Attorney-General George Brandis declared the problem of large numbers of Australians fighting in Syria and Iraq had its origins in “our own suburbs”.
Britain’s The Sun yesterday. Source: Supplied
AUSMIN: What you need to know
Mr Irvine said the scale of the Syrian jihad, which had attracted thousands of foreign fighters and about 60 Australians, had created a “new hub’’ for Islamist extremists. “Those with extremist groups in Syria and Iraq who are returning here — or other countries —— represent a serious threat,” he said in a speech to the Australian Institute of International Affairs last night.
“We have seen tens of Australians return already. Experience suggests upon return some will disengage from extremist activities. But others will have had their Islamist extremist mindset reinforced by their experience.
“They will also hold an increased status and influence for some in the communities to which they have returned, giving them the potential ability to radicalise others. The networks both here and overseas, experience and expertise that they have now gained — and can offer to others — will perpetuate the scale of the threat posed.”
FULL TEXT: AUSMIN 2014 joint communique
The jihadist issue became a major focus of the AUSMIN talks on defence, security and foreign affairs issues in Sydney yesterday
Mr Kerry said the US would, in the northern autumn, take up at the UN the need to build a unified approach to jihadists returning from the battlefields of Iraq and Syria. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop promised Australia’s strong backing at the UN.
The US Secretary of State — a Vietnam War veteran who famously testified to congress about war crimes committed by American troops — said the image, published on The Australian’s front page on Monday, demonstrated how extreme Islamic State’s ideology was.
“This image, perhaps even an iconic photograph ... is really one of the most disturbing, stomach-turning, grotesque photographs ever displayed,” he said. “A seven-year-old child holding a severed head up with pride and with the support and encouragement of a parent with brothers there.
“That child should be in school and that child should be out learning about the future.
“That child should be out playing with other kids, not holding a severed head and out in the field of combat.
“This is utterly disgraceful and it underscores the degree to which IS is so far beyond the pale in respect to any standard by which we judge even terrorist groups that al-Qa’ida shunted them aside. And that’s why they represent the threat that they represent. And it is no accident that every country in the region is opposed to IS.”
FULL TEXT: David Irvine’s speech
Mr Irvine told the Australian Institute of International Affairs that ASIO’s long-standing concern about “lone wolf’’ terrorists, or small cells of extremists — long considered the most likely perpetrators of a domestic attack — had been supplanted by the prospect of a new threat: a wave of battle-hardened jihadists returning from Iraq and Syria. “This is creating a new generation of Islamist extremists, much as happened in Afghanistan in the late 1990s and early 2000s — a cohort whose activities and experience we spent many years subsequently having to contend,’’ Mr Irvine said.
These conflicts, and the extremist ideology they had spawned, were increasingly attracting young Australians. Mr Irvine cited the recent case of Adam Dahman, the Melbourne teen who killed himself in a Baghdad suicide bombing.
“These terrorist organisations, which young Australians are joining, are willing to sacrifice young brain-washed souls in the name of a distorted, hate-filled interpretation of Islam,’’ Mr Irvine said. “What we have seen so far probably represents only the first manifestation of this threat. The unprecedented numbers involved and the diverse range of source countries mean that even if only a portion eventually poses a threat, the scale of this will be considerable.’’
Mr Irvine praised the Muslim community for doing what it could to counter the attraction of radical Islam. He rejected suggestions of a 100-year war with Islam: “Let me reiterate, we are not fighting Islam, in Australia or anywhere else. We are fighting the terrorism that kills innocent people, both Muslim and non-Muslim.’’
The Australian National Imams Council yesterday broke its silence on the picture of Sharrouf’s son to condemn it.
Grand Mufti Ibrahim Abu Mohamed said it was “utterly deplorable for extremists to use Islam as a cover for their crimes and atrocities’’. “Their misguided actions do not represent the overwhelming majority of Muslims who emulate the pure teachings of Islam such as justice, mercy and freedom,” Professor Mohamed said. The council noted that Sharrouf was a diagnosed schizophrenic.
Senator Brandis last night told Sky News’s Richo + Jones that the relatively large number of Australians fighting in Syria and Iraq had taken authorities by surprise. “Per capita we have more foreign fighters in this theatre than any other country outside the Middle East and that is very, very disturbing,” he said.
“This is not a problem that exists on the other side of the world. This is a problem that has its origins in our own suburbs where jihadists and people who support their evil cause recruit young men … from within Islamic communities.”
Senator Brandis said the men were brain-washed with a bizarre and perverse, extreme interpretation of Islam. “They facilitate and finance their travel to this theatre where they become more hardened, in some cases trained in terrorist trade craft with a view to going into cities in the West, including coming back to Australia, and pursuing a terrorist agenda and we are determined to ensure that does not happen.”
The Australian was told last night that two RAAF C-130 Hercules transport aircraft would within hours begin dropping relief supplies to thousands of Iraqis from the Yazidi minority facing genocide at the hands of the Islamists.
Tony Abbott was due to meet British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and Defence Secretary Michael Fallon in London overnight to discuss Australia’s assistance in the Iraq mission. The Prime Minister said the British meetings were important because “this is a difficult and dangerous world’’.
“It is important that Australia stays in the closest possible touch with our friends and partners and equally with this developing situation in the Middle East,’’ Mr Abbott said.
Mr Kerry said the prospect of a new government in Iraq meant the US was “without any question ... prepared to consider additional political, economic and security options” if Iraqis worked together in a way they failed to under Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite who the US has accused of oppressing Sunnis and thereby helping fuel the success of IS.
Mr Kerry said it might involve “training or equipment or assistance of one kind or another” being provided to Iraqi forces “that can help them stand on their own two feet”.
Mr Kerry stressed there would be no reintroduction of American combat forces to Iraq.
Additional reporting: Jared Owens, Jacquelin Magnay, Phillip Hudson
And within a minute of this being posted there is this comment:
Roger 48 minutes ago
Send in the troops, destroy ISIS, arrest Sharrouf and send him to Guantanamo Bay! And for goodness sakes, close the al-Risalah Islamic Centre in Bankstown!!!
lol
