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2004-01-23 Down Under

Hambali planned to attack Australia, but couldnât due to a lack of local support

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-01-23 12:59:44 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The answers given to Austalian authorities revealed that Hambali had almost no success in establishing a local Anglo-Saxon network and instead relied on two Indonesian brothers, Abdul Rahim Ayub and Abdul Rochman Ayub.

Something to learn from this is that if one is looking for terrorists, the people to scrutinize closely are the ones that are likely to be terrorists. This means profiling. Screw all the "fairness" crap.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-1-23 11:15:42 AM|| 2004-1-23 11:15:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Diego Garcia huh? I'd thought he was a Bagram boy...

Posted by Frank G 2004-1-23 11:24:10 AM|| 2004-1-23 11:24:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, the Australian thinks so:
By early September, with their lists of questions growing longer and more detailed, Australia joined Indonesia in requesting that some of its officials be allowed to sit in on interrogations about matters that directly concerned them. At that point they did not even know his whereabouts. Their request was promptly knocked back, but Australia was, for the first time, invited to submit its list of questions. Only later that month did word of Hambali's new home become known - a fortified military complex known as Camp Justice on Britain's Diego Garcia, a tiny island 1000km from any land mass.
With India to the north, Indonesia out east, Madagascar to the west and Antarctica down south, Hambali - and his two other captured al-Qa'ida cohorts Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Ramzi bin al-Shibh - is beyond any hope of air or sea-bound rescue.
I'd wager he went to Bagram first, then was transfered to Diego Garcia. Hell, maybe everyone sent to Bagram ends up on DG. Camp Justice might just be Alcatraz South.

Posted by Steve 2004-1-23 12:12:46 PM|| 2004-1-23 12:12:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I like the mental isolation being jailed on DG must provide.... it's a loooooong swim to escape lol

Posted by Frank G 2004-1-23 12:24:59 PM|| 2004-1-23 12:24:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 ... while his brother was deported from Australia because of immigration irregularities.
Oh, that such a thing could ever happen here in the US.

Posted by Dar 2004-1-23 12:36:52 PM|| 2004-1-23 12:36:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Lack of local support, you can't base decisions on what the pollsters tell you. He should have at least had a focus group on how to most effectively market his product.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-1-23 1:03:51 PM|| 2004-1-23 1:03:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 For the necessary background information on the hellhole the Jihadis are in, known as the People's Republic of Diego Garcia, check out the link here.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-1-23 1:29:30 PM|| 2004-1-23 1:29:30 PM|| Front Page Top

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