Offenders of Middle Eastern Appearance

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The Cronulla "riots" are fading into the past and the bush fires (wild fires) in Australia are coming under control. Now, the normal background levels of Middle Eastern inspired crimes and violence find their place back in the media.

Man shot in foot by robbers

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17963223-1242,00.html

A 41-year-old man confronted the offenders when they entered the rear of a Punchbowl house on Rossmore Avenue about 4pm (AEDT) yesterday.
The robbers shot him in the right foot with a pistol before fleeing the scene on foot, police said.

Both men are described as
being of Middle Eastern appearance and police are appealing for assistance in tracking them down.

Man stabbed during assault

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,179
63229-1242,00.html

THREE attackers last night assaulted a man at a beach on the NSW Central Coast, stabbing him twice in the back with a small knife.

The man suffered minor injuries when two youths, believed to be less than 20 years old, and an older man cornered him about 8.30pm (AEDT) yesterday at Ettalong Beach Wharf.

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Painter bashed in mansion raid

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17956292-1242,00.html

The middle-aged painter, only identified as George, suffered head i
njuries after he was ambushed by three men in the garage of Mr Kennedy's Kirribilli home.

The men were all described as being of Middle Eastern appearance. One wore a black shirt, while a second offender was described as be
ing about 180cm tall and wore a green shirt.

 

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I'm going to try something different. I'll post small/short Australian stories where the offenders are of middle eastern appearance here. That way I won't take up so much space on the board. I may also be able to keep track of the offenders names more easily. I welcome any comments or suggestions. Let's see.....

 

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Armed robbery - Kingsford
http://www.police.nsw.gov.au/news

Maroubra police are investigating an armed robbery at a service station in Kingsford last night.

At 8.05pm a man armed with a knife, entered a service station on Anzac Parade, Kingsford and demanded money from the attendant.

The man is described as being of Middle Eastern/Islander appearance, medium to dark complexion, brown eyes and athletic build. He was wearing a black top, baggy pants and a grey shirt covering his head.

 

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Teens in court over violent car theft
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18040823-1242,00.html

Lets see. A gang attacks a solitary woman. Violence. Stealing phone, car and cash. West Sydney. This stinks of middle eastern violence. No race mentioned of course....

SEVEN teenagers, aged 14 to 17, have been charged over the violent carjacking and robbery of a woman in Sydney's southwest.

Four boys, aged 14 to 15, and three girls, aged 15 to 17, were charged with several offences including robbery in company and aggravated carjacking.
All seven, who live in Sydney's west, were granted bail during

appearances today in Lidcombe Childrens Court, a court spokesman said.

A boy and girl, also were charged over a separate theft of a car in Bankstown on January 22.

They will all reappear in the same court on Monday.


Police allege a 45-year-old woman was walking to her car, parked in a Bankstown carpark, on Thursday afternoon when she was approached by two teenagers asking for directions.

When she got her mobile phone from her bag to help them she was pushed and punched to the ground.
A third teenager then helped rob the woman while four others kept a lookout.

They stole cash and a laptop computer before driving off in the woman's car.

Police found the vehicle, with the teenagers still in it, in Cronulla in Sydney's south about 8am yesterday ' more than 12 hours after the attack on the woman.

 

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Sydney man to face court over terrorism offences
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200602/s1565071.htm

Lucky for Mr Ul-Haque that I don't make the laws. Being muslim would be enough to stand trial. I would give the same punishment to his lawyer for wasting the courts time.

A Sydney man charged with receiving training from a terrorist organisation in Pakistan has been ordered to stand trial.

His lawyer, Adam Houda, says there will be an appeal against the decision to allow the charges against him to stand.

Former medical student Izhar Ul-Haque, 23, is charged w

ith intentionally receiving training from the Pakistani terrorist organisation LET in early 2003.

Mr Houda applied to the Supreme Court in Sydney to have the charge quashed, on the grounds that the terrorism laws could not cover alleged
acts which did not have an Australian connection.

He also argued that the charge did not name a specific terrorist act and that the case against Mr Ul-Haque could not be proved.

 

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Habib feels 'defamed' by articles
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=73860

Poor Mr. Habib! Spends time in Terrorist Paradise Guantanamo Bay, only to return to Australia to find that the big, bad newspapers have told us about his true muslim nature. Don't worry Mr. Habib. I'm sure our bleeding heart legal system will give you a big cash reward to forward to your terrorist friends.

Former Guantanamo Bay inmate Mamdouh Habib was defamed by a series of newspaper articles that branded him a suburban terrorist and questioned claims he had been tortured, a court has b

een told.

Mr Habib is suing Nationwide News, publisher of The Daily Telegraph and The Weekend Australian newspapers, in the NSW Supreme Court over four articles published in 2002 and 2005.

Mr Habib, who was in court, claims the articl
es have damaged his reputation in the community.

 

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Retrial for extortion charge brothers
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18081103-1242,00.html

THE High Court today ordered a retrial for two brothers jailed for extorting money from a Sydney nightclub owner on the grounds of bias by the sentencing judge.

NSW District Court Judge Terence Christie, who presided over the trial without a jury, found Joseph and Antoine Antoun guilty of demanding money with menaces from Darling Harbour nightclub owner Michael Savvas in 2001.

Joseph Antoun was sentenced to six years jail with a non-parole period of four years and six months.
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His brother Antoine was sentenced to a maximum of three years and six months imprisonment with a minimum term of two years and six months.

During the trial the court was told that Antoine Antoun first approached Mr Savvas in March
2001 to offer him security services but the nightclub owner said he was happy with his present arrangement.

In the next three months Antoine Antoun made further visits to Mr Savvas. During one of these visits he claimed he and his brother had an arrangement with the security firm under which Mr Savvas owed the pair $8000.

In June 2001, a group of youths visited the club and destroyed furniture and telephone intercepts which had recorded Antoine Antoun asking Mr Savvas if he had received the warning, the court was told.

The brothers also were recorded, with a listening device, threatening Mr Savvas and demanding more money, the trial was told.

This reminded me of an ar
tic
le that White Boy brought to my attention:

http://www.quadrant.org.au/php/archive_det...?article_id=581

It describes the extortion senario above exactly. If we ever had any doubts about the words of retired detective Tim P
riest in this article they are no longer. And now the slimey lawyers have got them a retrial. Based on what? The judge was biased. That's right the judge WAS biased. Against criminals.

Will they ask for compensation next? When will we wake up and get rid of these scumbags?

 

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Brothers get new hearing
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/brothe...9379573562.html

Astounding in this case how little it takes for a retrial. "The judge should not have said....." !!!! Yesterday's article failed to mention that these scumbags are already out on bail pending the new non-trial!

TWO brothers jailed for running a protection racket at Darling Harbour deserved a new hearing because their trial judge was clearly biased, the High Court has ruled.

In a 5-0 decision, the court found that their trial judge, Paul Christie, should
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not have said he would dismiss "no case" applications by Joseph and Antoine Antoun without hearing from their barristers first.

The brothers' defence was that it was only a debt-collecting exercise but the Chief
Justice said there was evidence they were demanding ongoing payments which justified Judge Christie's decision to reject the applications. The brothers are out on bail.

 

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Drink-driver avoids jail after school crash
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200602/s1566963.htm

Drives drunk, more than 3 times the limit. Has previous drink driving offences. Drives while suspended. Injures kids. But he is from Sudan. We better let him go. Oh, and we will blame VicRoads (Whitey) instead.

An unlicensed drink-driver has avoided being sent to jail after crashing into a Melbourne school yard and injuring five children.

Taban William Gany, 32, of Doveton in Melbourne, pleaded guilty to a number of offences after five children were hurt when the car he was driving crashed through the fen

ce of the Dandenong West Primary School last year.

A six-year-old boy's foot was amputated after the crash.

The court heard Gany had a blood alcohol level of 0.175 and had prior convictions for drink-driving.


But Judge Peter Gebhardt said this was a case that cried out for mercy.

He said Gany was suffering post-traumatic stress after fleeing war-torn Sudan, was remorseful and shown exemplary compliance to alcohol treatment programs.

He said he was concerned about VicRoads' driver testing, particularly communication skills and alcohol awareness.

He suspended Gany's three year jail sentence.

At least one of the parents has the guts to stand up....

Mum's anger as drink driver walks
http://www.heraldsun.ne
ws.c
om.au/common/st...55E2862,00.html

THE mother of a boy who lost his foot when a drunk driver crashed his car into a schoolyard has slammed a judge's decision to let the culprit walk from court.

The suspended sentence handed down to disqualified driver Taban Gany, 32, was an outrage, said the mother of seven-year-old Sabi Mashid.
"It i
s not fair because Sabi's life has been ruined and the man is free," Farida Mashid said.

"He must go to jail. He's not a good man. He does not care about people if he's drink driving."

The court heard Gany had two previous drink-driving convictions

 

[Proud Aussie]

I thought about retiring when the board moved. Too much time, too much anger looking at this stuff every day. However, even if I retired THEY would not and I would still be angry. So here I go....

Vic man set for terrorism trial
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200602/s1569069.htm

His name dosen't look middle eastern. His actions do.

The prosecution is expected to make its opening address to the jury today in the Supreme Court trial of Joseph Terrence Thomas, 32, of Werribee, west of Melbourne.

He is facing four charges of providing funds to and receiving support from the Al Qaeda terrorist organisation, and possessing a false passport.

The offences are
alleged to have occurred in Karachi in Pakistan between July 2002 and January 2003.[/b]

Habib defamed, may win damages
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=73860

We all knew why this went to court. Here we have it in print.

Former Guantanamo Bay inmate Mamdouh Habib may be entitled to compensation after a jury found he was defamed by a Sydney newspaper article that suggested he was a liar.[/b]

 

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Ethnic group 'harbouring fugitive'
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18148329-1242,00.html

Middle eastern crime and violence in all its glory. We have organised crime, murder, drugs, illegal firearms, brawling, kidnapping and high speed chases.

Ain't multiculturalism grand!

A MAJOR organised crime figure wanted over two murders is being harboured by members of Sydney's Assyrian community, police said today.

The head of NSW Police's specialist gang taskforce today appealed to the Assyrian community to ignore the threat of deadly reprisals and give up <!--c
oloro:#FF0000-->Ramon Youmaran, who narrowly evaded capture in a high-speed car chase last night.

Mr Youmaran is linked to a fatal drive-by shooting of bystanders in Fairfield last October.


The fugitive s also wanted over a 2002 murder that sparked violent retribution in south-west Sydney.

He has been on the run since the shooting murder of Dimitri Debaz during a brawl outside the Playhouse Hotel in Sefton in 2002.

Mr Debaz's murder led to a spate of retaliatory crimes, including drive-by shootings, kidnappings and attempted murders.

Just hours after police called off a high-speed car chase
through Sydney in pursuit of Mr Youmaran, Task Force Gain's commander revealed that he was also wanted over a second fatal shootout.
Detective Superintendent Mark Henney said Mr Youmaran, 27, was linked to the murder of Iraqi refugee Ramon Khananyah in October.

Mr Khananyah, 29, was killed and three other men injured when masked gunmen sprayed bullets at the crowded Babylon Cafe in Fairfield.

Supt Henney said Mr Khananyah and the others were bystanders and not the intended targets of the shooting.

The task force b
oss said mr Youmaran, who regularly changes his appearance, was being harboured by gang and family members in the Assyrian community in Fairfield.

Assyrians are from a minority people inhabiting parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran.

Supt Henney
said Mr Youmaran would need help from within the community to operate.

Detectives today arrested a man they believed was the driver of the car Mr Youmaran used to evade capture.

The 24-year-old man arrested about midday in Cecil Hills, in Sydney's south-west, was being questioned by police over Mr Youmaran's whereabouts and the car chase.

Task Force Gain detectives spotted Mr Youmaran about 6.15pm (AEDT) yesterday in Woodcroft, in Sydney's west, following a police raid in neighbouring Plumpton earlier in the day.

Police said no arrests were made during the 4am Plumpton raid, which netted a haul of 18,000 MDMA (ecstasy) and methamphetamine tablets and 5kg of a precursor used in the manufacture of prohibited
drugs.

Several firearms were seized for forensic examination, including an M16 military assault rifle, semi-automatic rifle and revolver.


Police said detectives had gone to a house in Woodcroft, where Youmaran was seen getting into the passenger seat of a green Mercedes Benz.

They said the car travelled at speeds of up to 200kph [120mph] in a chase along the M7 and the M2 motorways.

The pursuit was terminated due to public safety concerns, police said. [/b]

 

[Proud Aussie]

Man jailed over drink-driving crash death
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200602/s1570575.htm

Contrast the sentence handed down here to Dion Anthony Griffiths (presumably white) of 4.5 years to that of our friend Taban William Gany (recently of Sudan) of a suspended sentence, that is he walked.

Reported previously here and at
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200602/s1566963.htm

The only difference was that Gany was lucky enough that none of his victims died. Remember that some of them now have permanent injuries (amputations) and all of them were children unknown to Gany.

Oh, there was another difference. Gany was a foreigner with a irrelevant sad past. It must b
e OK then, the judge said so. Not.

A 27-year-old Melbourne man has been sentenced
to a minimum of four-and-a-half years in jail for a drink-driving crash in March 2004.

The County Court has heard Dion Anthony Griffiths was almost four times over the legal blood alcohol limit when he entered a freeway exit bend in Burnley driving at around 110 kilometres-an-hour.

On Monday Griffiths pleaded guilty to culpable driving that killed his friend's girlfriend, 20-year-old Michelle Forbes and left another friend 20-year-old Joshua Young with brain injuries.

The judge said he has taken into account Griffiths plea of guilty, his remorse and prospects for rehabilitation, but said he does not seem to have learnt from a careless driving conviction in 2003.

He has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years jail with a non-parole period of four-and-a-half years.

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Hunt for street robberies gang
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18156201-1243,00.html

Not specifically middle eastern appearance. However, a dark-skinned gang stealing cash and phones. In Australia who else could it be?

DETECTIVES in Melbourne are hunting a gang they believe is responsible for up to 17 robberies.

The gang is thought to be behind a series of street robberies since November last year in which between four and 12 men, described by police as dark-skinned, demanded cash and personal items such as mobile phones from victims.
The robberies occurred in the Flemington, Ascot
Vale and Kensington areas of Melbourne's inner northwest and, in some cases, members of the group were armed with knives, a police spokeswoman said.[/b]

 

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Two on trial for murder
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/two-on...9890807107.html

Automatic (probably semi-automatic) weapons. Illegal here. Again, the criminals have no problem getting them. Drive-by shooting. Murder. All in a days work for our muslim friends. They even commit murder at their infamous holy site Lakemba mosque. What marvelous a religion!

On a pleasing note: 55 shots and no hits. They were probably too caught up in the holiness of the moment to aim straight. This time they were killing each other. Keep up the good work!

WHEN 55 shots were fired from automatic rifles in a suburban street, damaging a car and passing through f
ive houses, it was "miraculous nobody was injured", a Supreme Court jury has been told.

The target of the shooting was allegedly the Condell Park
home where Farouk "Frank" Razzak was staying in August 2003. The Crown prosecutor, Mark Hobart, said yesterday that after hearing shots, Mr Razzak went outside to investigate, shouting: "What are you doing?" Mr Razzak immediately recognised "the accused Abdul [Darwiche] and his brother Adnan", said Mr Hobart.

Abdul Darwiche is on trial for the attempted murder of Mr Razzak. Adnan Darwiche has also been charged. Two days after the incident, Mr Razzak's cousin Ali Abdul-Razzak was killed at Lakemba mosque. The trial
continues.[/b]

 

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Court hears accused was asked to be Al Qaeda sleeper
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200602/s1571341.htm

I reported before that his name did not look middle eastern. Well, here he is in all his glory

Mr Thomas's slimey lawyer seems to be using the stupidity defence here.

A court has heard allegations that a Victorian man was asked to return to Australia as a sleeper for the terrorist group, Al Qaeda.

A trial has begun for 32-year-old Joseph Terrence Thomas of W
erribee who is charged with providing resources to and receiving funds from the Al Qaeda terrorist network between July 2002 and January 2003.

The Supreme Court has been told he trained with Al Qaeda in at the Al Farooq camp in Afghanistan in mid-2001 and was in close
quarters with Osama Bin Laden on three occasions.

It is alleged he was present during conversations about terrorist acts, including a possible attack in Australia, and that he accepted a Qantas ticket and money from Al Qaeda after being told that Bin Laden wanted an Australian to carry out operations here.

The prosecutor has told the jury Mr Thomas later told police he did not agree to become an Al Qaeda sleeper.

Thomas's lawyer has told the Victorian Supreme Court his client may be naive and stupid, but he definitely was not a terrorist.

He told the jury Thomas did accept a plane ticket
and money to get home but all the other aspects of the charges would be heavily disputed.

The court heard Thomas told police one man's terrorist was another man's freedom fighter but that he did not agree with Al Qaeda's methods. [/b]

Bin Laden wanted Thomas as 'sleeper'
http://ne
ws.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=67416

Mr. Thomas's lawyer may maintain that he is stupid. While bin Laden is a lot of things I don't believe he is stupid. If bin Laden supplied money and air tickets to Mr. Thomas cleary bin Laden believed he had a torrorist follower willing to take action.

Mr Robinson said Thomas told AFP officers he had trained for about th
ree months at an al-Qaeda camp in Afghanistan called Al Farooq around the middle of 2001.

"The accused told police ... that he saw Osama bin Laden in close quarters on a number of occasions," Mr Robinson told the court.

He said that after training at the camp, Thomas went to Pakistan where he stayed in safe houses frequented by al-Qaeda operatives.

Mr Robinson said one al-Qaeda member, Khaled Bin Attash, personally handed him $US3,500 ($A4,745) and organised a plane ticket from Pakistan back to Australia.

When AFP agents asked Thomas why Attash wanted him to go back to Australia he said he was to surveil milit
ary installations.

"Osama bin Laden wanted an Australian to work for him and to carry out operations in Australia," Mr Robinson said Thomas told police.

Attash told Thomas to contact him within six to 12 months of returning to Australia.

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>Mr Lasry said the only evidence the crown had was Thomas' record of interview on March 8, 2003, which was done without Thomas having access to an Australian lawyer.
[So he told his zealot muslim truth first. Then the slimey laywer told him to stop.]

He warned the jury not to "cherry pick" from the interview, but rather assess it as a whole.

Mr Lasry said the jury must find Thomas not guilty of the charges because the interview did no more than generate suspicion.

He said there was no dispute that Thomas received $US3,500 ($A4,745) and an airline ticket, but all the other allegations were denied.

The trial in the Victorian Supreme Court continues.[/b]

Thomas targeted as
al-Qaeda 'sleeper', court told
<a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/nationa
l/thomas-targeted-as-alqaeda-sleeper-court-told/2006/02/16/1140064203373.html" target="_blank">http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/tho...0064203373.html</a>

Ok. Now I'm confused. Here is a later picture of Mr. Thomas and his parents. His transformation to a white boy seems complete. However, as far as I'm concerned he is what this board calls a "race traiter". So, I will leave his story here.

 

[Proud Aussie]

Taxi driver not guilty over road rage death
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200602/s1571848.htm

Muslim kills muslim. Bravo!

A Supreme Court jury has found a Sydney taxi driver not guilty of murdering a man during a road rage incident.

Abed Jawad Hersh did not deny stabbing Mohammad Tariq Khan in the head with a screw-driver in April of 2004, but said he did it in self-defence.

The court heard that the car Mr Khan was travelling in forced Mr Hersh's taxi to stop on the City West Link at Lilyfield.

It was the second trial for Mr Hersh over the incident. Last year a jury was unable to reach a verdict.[/b]

 

[Proud Aussie]

Classroom used for target: police
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/classr...0064202454.html

We have been watching this story for a while. A busy night of drive-by shootings. Finally a suspect is named. And there is no surprise....

A PRIMARY school's wall was used for target practice hours before a series of drive-by shootings across four suburbs, police have revealed.

Officers from Task Force Gain and the State Protection Group closed Canterbury Road at Punchbowl yesterday for more than an hour during the morning peak and raided a house next to Punchbowl Public School.

They arrested
Mahmoud Ahmad, 23, of Punchbowl, and a 17-year-old youth and seized some ammunition and an air rifle.

Scientific police spent several hours examining a fence bordering the sc
hool, from which it was alleged shots were fired into a classroom wall on the night of Sunday, September 11, last year.

Yesterday's raid followed a five-month investigation of shootings on September 11 between 9pm and 10.30pm in inner-western and south-western suburbs and for which no one has been charged.

At one of those shootings a 25-year-old man was wounded in Canterbury Road, Campsie, by men who stole his car.

The wounded man's home in Lawler Street, Panania, where he lived with his parents, was later hit by a dozen rounds fired from a moving car. Police believe the same car was used in drive-by shootings at a town house in Webb Street, Croydon, and at a home in Moxon Road, Punchbowl.

Police alleged at the time that the gunm
en also threatened men walking in Augusta Street, Condell Park, earlier that night.
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[Proud Aussie]

Terrorism suspects to challenge law change in High Court
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/terror...0064202457.html

There really is no limit to the depths of these lawyers sick desparation. Mr. Houda argues that his clients have been unfairly treated as a word in the law has been changed from "a" to "the". Does Mr Houda truly believe that he and his family are immune to terrorism? That the laws designed to protect him are unjust?

Take a look at the charges. Does Mr Houda truly believe that all the charges are fabricated? That his clients are completely innocent? That argueing "a" or "the" is in any way relevant? I don't know how these defenders of islam do it.

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THREE terrorist suspects will challenge the Federal Government's new anti-terrorism la
ws in the High Court.

At issue is a one-word retrospective change in the laws requiring prosecutors to only prove a suspect was planning "a" rather than "the" terrorist act.

The change from the specific to the general was introduced in dramatic circumstances in November as the Prime Minister, John Howard, warned of new intelligence about a terrorist plot.

Days later, 18 people were arrested in police raids in Sydney and Melbourne over an alleged conspiracy to attack undisclosed locations in the two cities.

Bilal Khazal, Izhar Ul-Haque and Faheem Khalid Lodhi were all charged before the Federal Government rushed through the amendment late last year.

Their lawyer, Adam Hou
da, said a provision that came into force yesterday meant the change was backdated to 2002, when the Government first introduced anti-terrorism laws. He said it adversely affected the cases of his three clients and flouted longstanding principles of justice.

"It's very unfair," Mr Houda said yesterda
y. "We are taking it to the High Court. All three accused will be challenging."

Lodhi, 36, of Punchbowl, is accused of working with the French terrorism suspect Willy Brigitte to bomb the national electricity supply and military sites in Sydney. He has been in custody since April 2004.

Ul-Haque, a former student at North Sydney Boys, is accused of training at a terrorist camp.

Khazal, a former Qantas baggage handler, has been charged with knowingly collecting or making documents connected with terrorism and to inciting another person to commit a terrorist act. The Crown alleges he comp
iled a terrorist manual from internet material.[/b]

 

[Proud Aussie]

Rapist's dad was smuggler
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18194222-1242,00.html

Comes to my country. Raises a rapist. Lives on welfare. Breaks the law to pay legal fees for his evil spawn. What more could a good muslim do?

THE father of one of Sydney's notorious gang-rapists has been fined $250,000 for smuggling a shipment of cigarettes into Australia to help pay his son's legal bills.

Part-time taxi driver Mohamad Hajeid hoped to make up to $45,000 from selling the illicit cigarettes - and avoided paying almost $90,000 import duty, the Supreme Court heard.

Belal Hajeid, now 24, was jailed in 2002 for his role in two sex attacks by gangs of young Lebanese men in a Greenacre park in late 2000.

He was originally jailed for at least 15 years, but an appeal last year saw his sent
ence reduced to a minimum of 12 years.

Mohamad Hajeid suffered a stroke shortly before his son was sentenced in 2002, and now receives Centrelink benefits.

Two years later, before his son's appeal was heard, Hajeid flew to Syria to arrange the importation of "blankets, foodstuffs and other trade goods (orientals)", the Supreme Court heard.

But when the container arrived in Sydney, Customs officers found almost 400,000 cigarettes - enough for 20,000 packets - scattered throughout the shipment.
Hajeid, 51, was charged with evading payment of the $89,000 Customs duty, as well as smuggling and making a false customs declaration.

He told Customs investigators he needed to "pay some legal fees owing in
respect of his son Belal, who he said was serving a long prison sentence".

Hajeid admitted he had also avoided payment of the import duty because he needed the money for his son's legal bill.

Justice Michael Grove said Hajeid had frankly admitted his plot to Customs investigators w
hen they raided his Greenacre home last year.

Hajeid was unlikely to be able to pay his hefty fine, the judge noted, but he was required by law to impose a fine at least double the amount of duty evaded. [/b]

 

[Dragasès]

Now you know why they're called SAND NIGGERS.

In the early '70's, when I was young and more adventurous, I inquired about emigrating to Australia. The consulate sent me a large packet of materials with application form. It made it quite clear that only white people were considered for immigration into Australia at that time.

What happened to THAT wonderfully common-sense policy?

I suspect that an influential number of rth: termited their way into the Australian government.