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Down Under
Australia coy on search for Chechen bombmaker
2004-03-21
Attorney-General Phillip Ruddock said intelligence authorities had neither confirmed nor denied they were searching for a Chechen explosive expert believed to be in Australia to help make a bomb. Terrorist suspect Willie Brigitte made the claim to French investigators, according to media reports today. Mr Ruddock said the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) had neither confirmed nor denied that it had launched a search for a Chechen explosive expert claimed by Brigitte as heading to Australia to help make a bomb. "I can’t comment on the status of ongoing inquiries. I can’t confirm or deny the status of them," he said.

Reports in News Ltd newspapers today cited a dossier prepared by French investigators in which Brigitte said he was sent to Sydney to help prepare for a major terrorist attack. According to the report, Brigitte claimed an informal terrorist recruitment network was operating in the western suburbs of Sydney. Brigitte, deported from Australia to France last year, has been linked to Pakistan terror group LeT, now specifically outlawed in Australia. Meanwhile, Muslim community spokesman Keysar Trad said today said that the Brigitte claims may have been marijuana-induced hallucinations. "Marijuana users escape into their imagination and have hallucinations," Mr Trad told AAP. "His wife says he uses marijuana regularly. We haven’t seen anything to substantiate these allegations, but for someone who’s a heavy marijuana user you wonder whether he just couldn’t work things out after the intense interrogation."
Posted by:Paul Moloney

#2  If the Chechen is also a chronic user of chronic, look for him at the midnight drive-thru's.
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-3-21 9:16:58 PM  

#1  So they're saying he was an assassin?
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2004-3-21 7:43:52 PM  

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