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| A little more on Brigitte’s Aussie buddies |
| 2004-02-07 |
| A lot of this is the same as what Paul posted the other day, but it adds a little more info in a number of areas. FRENCH counter-terrorist police believe that a Sydney associate of accused terrorist Willie Brigitte used computer programs to plot the layout of Australian military bases and tried to obtain chemicals to make a bomb. The claim is one of several to be made tomorrow on the Nine Network’s Sunday program, based on information provided by investigators. Others include a suggestion that the Sydney associate and Brigitte were in contact with a "handler" in Pakistan - an alleged member of the terrorist group Lashkar e-Taiba (LET). Authorities in Australia and France have believed since the time of Brigitte’s arrest in Sydney on October 7 that he was connected to LET - and by proxy the leadership core of its sponsor, al-Qaeda. As though the exploding Jaish member and the implication of the LeT, LeJ, and JeM in the attempt to whack Perv weren’t complicated enough already, this shows us that al-Qaeda’s control over its affiliate arms in Pakland is an international rather than just a local phenomenon. Perv evidently thinks he has some measure of control over the Pakistani jihadis, but that doesn’t appear to be the case if elements of them (and sizeable elements at that) are willing to both bite the hand that feeds them as well as encourage nastiness overseas. According to Sunday, Brigitte has admitted in official interrogations to training with LET in explosives and other weapons, as well as high-altitude endurance. The Australian revealed earlier this week that Brigitte’s Australian wife, Melanie Brown, had recalled a man she did not know visiting the couple’s Sydney flat for three weeks before Brigitte’s arrest and studying the internet with her husband. Authorities believe this man was the associate described by French investigators. The Australian first revealed on November 10 that authorities believed Brigitte and at least one of his associates were assessing the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor, the Holsworthy army base and the Garden Island naval base as potential terror targets. The French also assert that Brigitte admitted to being asked to rendezvous with a Chechen bomb expert in Sydney. The Chechen connection is interesting because it works to further tie the terror machine together. Another group of Chechen allegedly infiltrated Japan back in December, so it looks like they may becoming the preferred jihadi tool for use in societies where Arab or Pakistani muscle is going to stand out. But Australian law enforcement officials have maintained no such man existed and that Brigitte’s admission was part of a cover story. Look for forged documents, they appear to be a staple of the jihadi lifestyle. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #2 a man she did not know visiting the couple’s Sydney flat for three weeks before Brigitte’s arrest and studying the internet with her husband Any time visiting Rantburg would have been time well spent. |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-2-7 11:36:57 AM |
| #1 sigh...sounds like the cancer has really invaded the lymphnodes to spread around the body. |
| Posted by: B 2004-2-7 5:01:07 AM |