MH17 victims credit cards, phones stolen :Australian task force will be sent to crash site to help stop looting

Mourners attend a memorial service held for a family of five killed in the flight MH17 disaster, in the suburb of Eynesbury on July 20, 2014 in Melbourne. Shaliza Zain Dewa, 45, husband Johannes van den Hende and their children Piers, Marnix and Margaux, aged 15, 12 and 8 were among the 28 Australians on board the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 that crashed killing all 298 on board.

Muslim ASSASSIN Adam Dahman,

Aussie teen Adam Dahman linked to Iraq suicide attack: Family denies he was the bomber

Alex White,Samantha Maiden and Katherine Powley 
The Daily Telegraph
July 25,2014

THIS is the Australian teen authorities believe became a suicide bomber in Iraq last week, killing five people. But the family of Adam Dahman, 18, last night denied he was the bomber, saying he is alive in Syria and had contacted them last week. His father said ASIO agents had interviewed his son but let him go, and he believed he was doing humanitarian work in Syria.

The teen, from Northcote, Melbourne is suspected of detonating a bomb near a Shiite mosque in Baghdad last week.

Pictures on Adam’s Facebook page date back to December 21 and appear to show him posing in front of Islamic State flags in Iraq which read “There is no God but God; Mohammed is the messenger of God”.

But Sam Dahman, did not believe his son was the suicide bomber: “Where is the proof?”

“I just talked to him last week. I want to see the body,” he said.



Mr Dahman said his son had run away when he was 17 on November 10 but had then phoned very upset, saying two ASIO agents had spoken with him at the airport. “What I want to know is why the government let him go?’’ Mr Dahman said.

Insiders said security agencies did not put a hold on Adam’s passport, which would have prevented him slipping out of the country.

It is understood Adam was known to authorities at the time but was not considered a threat.

He is believed to be the second Australian to be a suicide bomber in the Syria and Iraq conflict and has family ties to 22-year-old Zacharia Raad, who was killed in an ambush in Syria in June.

It is understood both men had links to convicted terrorists from a Melbourne group who planned to bomb the MCG.

Brothers Ezzit Raad and Ahmed Raad were jailed for their role in the plot. Both men have served their jail sentences.

The Islamic State terror group has claimed responsibility for Mr Dahman’s attack.

Online Adam was known as Abu Bakr al Australi and leaders have hailed him as a “knight” and a martyr.

Sydney's Occupied Territories: "I would put a bullet between her eyes, says brother of Sydney mum........."

Family hate: I would put a bullet between her eyes, says brother of Sydney mum Mahassen Issa, accused of adultery in Lebanon

Exclusive Ashlee Mullany
Police Reporter
The Daily Telegraph
July 25,2014 

POLICE have condemned violent threats made by the family of a Sydney mother who is facing jail in Lebanon over adultery charges.

Mahassen Issa was due to face court in Tripoli last night amid angry threats from her family in Sydney, who say they have “disowned her’’ and want her jailed. Ms Issa yesterday made an 11th-hour plea for the federal government to intervene, saying she now “fears the worst”.

The 29-year-old Greenacre woman is facing a six-month jail term under Islamic law after she separated from her husband and met a man in Lebanon.

MAHASSEN DESERVES TIME IN JAIL, HER FAMILY SAYS

“The fact is I’m still here. I’m trying to stay calm and think clearly but I’m heartbroken. I’m scared. I’m fearing the worst,” Ms Issa told The Daily Telegraph.

Ms Issa was believed to be in hiding last night, fearing she would be thrown in jail if she went to police in Tripoli.

Her brother Ahmed claimed the family had warned her about starting a new relationship with the man in Lebanon. He said the family would not be providing her any assistance.

“My sister did wrong. It’s their country, it’s their laws. Whether she’s an Australian citizen or not,” he said.

“We as a family told them not to do this and now she’s crying for help.

“I hope she rots in hell.”

He said it was against Islamic law for a woman to remarry unless she had been divorced for at least a year. He claimed his sister married her new partner while in Lebanon, but she has denied this.

“She’s my sister, I would put a bullet between her eyes, I couldn’t give a shit,” he told The Daily Telegraph.

NSW Police condemned the violent threats: “Any sort of violence or threat of violence has no place in our society. There is no justification for making threats like this.’’

Her mother Nala has disowned her daughter. “I told her, clean your mess and go, but now I have disowned her,” she said.

Ms Issa said her former husband had alerted authorities in Lebanon that she was with another man and brought about the adultery charges.

Their ABC and AL Jazeera

Funny how Aunty never mentions that Al Jazeera’s backers bankroll Hamas in Gaza

The Australian
July 25,2014

ABC News Radio yesterday:

THERE is a strong possibility that Israel is committing war crimes … Al Jazeera’s Nicole Johnston filed this report.

Guess who funds Al Jazeera and which side they back? Armin Rosen, Business Insider, yesterday:

HAMAS’S apparent hard-line position ... with Israel is a partial function of Qatari support, as the emirate is the financial underwriter for the militant group’s policies and hosts ... Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said in a Doha press conference — carried in its entirety on Qatari-funded Al Jazeera’s Arabic channel — that Egypt would have to open the Rafah border crossing as a condition before his group would agree to a ceasefire. It’s a request Egypt is unlikely to agree to ...


No mention that Al Jazeera’s backers fund Hamas? ABC News Radio’s Weekend Breakfast, Sunday:

AL Jazeera commentator Marwan Bashara: The Egyptian initiative for a ceasefire, that was ... an Israeli initiative with Egyptian wrappings. This time around, there’s a genuine, apparently, Hamas initiative ...


Al Jazeera interview with Dr Mads Gilbert. SBS World Radio News, Monday:

BRIANNA Roberts: A Norwegian doctor in Gaza, Mads Gilberts, told Al Jazeera people are growing increasingly desperate.

Gilberts: The Israeli forces do not allow ambulances to access those people who are trapped in Shejaiya. There may be more than a hundred or hundreds. We don’t know the exact number of injured in the area but the access of ambulances is a major problem. A father just came running with his daughter screaming that “we need ambulances, we need ambulances, we need ambulances.”

That would be Mads Gilbert, the doctor who supported 9/11. Kristian Sarastuen, Dagbladet, September 30, 2001:

DR Mads Gilbert: The attack on New York (on 9/11) did not come as a surprise after the policy that the West has led during the last decades ... The oppressed also have a moral right to attack the USA with any weapon they can come up with ...

Interviewer: Do you support a terror attack against the USA?

Gilbert: ... yes, within the context which I have mentioned.

No prizes for guessing which network Waleed Aly chooses? ABC Radio National, July 21:

WALEED Aly: Joining me now … Nic­ole Johnston Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza ...

Johnston: ... Shejaiya (was) hit … more than 60 people in that one neighbourhood were killed, many of them were women and children … Israel has said that there is a so-called “terror network” — that’s what they’re calling it — of tunnels under that neighbourhood. The bottom line is that it’s still a residential area. It’s a densely packed area; it’s been full of civilians, ...
Aly: Israel is warning people to flee. Are they fleeing? …

Johnston: Yeah, they are, especially after this incident in Shejaiya …

Why didn’t they flee before? IDF spokesperson, July 20:

MANY days ago, we dropped this Arabic flyer warning residents of Shuja’iya to evacuate.

Sheltering in UN schools. ABC Radio National, Nicole Johnston, Al Jazeera network, July 21:

NOW the UN is saying that it has got 85,000 people in Gaza, inside some 67 UN schools, that they’re trying to shelter.

Good luck with that! UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, Tuesday:

TODAY ... UNRWA discovered rockets hidden in a vacant school in the Gaza Strip ... situated between two other UNRWA schools that ... each accommodate 1500 internally displaced persons. UNRWA ... unequivocally condemns the group or groups responsible for this flagrant violation of ... its premises.

Australian PM,Tony Abbott, ".no surrender monkey"

The nation has a true leader in Tony Abbott

Simon Benson
The Daily Telegraph
July 25,2014 

LIKE most of us Tony Abbott was in bed asleep when Flight MH17 was shot out of the sky. He was ­staying at his modest digs in the Canberra police college. By the time news of the horrific ­incident was beginning to filter through the silos of the ­Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Prime Minister’s own department, the PM was down in the college gym for his morning workout.

He arrived at his Parliament House office early, to prepare for a carbon tax event — which, like almost every other commitment that day, was promptly cancelled.

At 6am he jumped on a phone hook-up with his senior advisers and media staff.

Some of those on that call note that Abbott reacted with a sense of calm and purpose that took any hint of panic out of the air.

“At the end of it, everyone knew what they had to do and we were allowed to go and do it,” one said.

Abbott has shown a brand of leadership that for some ­reason many commentators claim is surprising.

There is no doubt that he has led the world. Those that know him will tell you that he is no “surrender monkey”.

The fact that he put a spine into US President Barack Obama and got Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone — twice — may seem remarkable for a minnow such as Australia.

It is a feature of Abbott’s personal ethics — he doesn’t say one thing privately and another thing publicly — that has earned him the respect of world leaders.

However, Abbott’s demonstration of strong and decisive leadership should not be cast as extraordinary or anything other than what Australians have a right to expect from their Prime Minister.

“People seem to be overly grateful for something that every elector has a right to expect,” said one insider remarking on the public response. “People seem to have forgotten that they have a right to it.”

What Abbott has exposed this week more than anything is the complete vacuum of leadership Australia had been living under in the six years of Labor government.

While it has played out publicly, in the reassuring, compassionate and decisive manner in which he has conducted himself, as with an iceberg Abbott’s depth of leadership lies mostly beneath the surface.

A source inside the National Security Committee claims Abbott has transformed the dynamics of its meetings, which have been held on a rolling basis since the attack.

This is a committee of not just key cabinet ministers but attended by the key agency chiefs including Chief of the Defence Forces, head of ASIS Nick Warner, ASIO boss David Irvine and Richard Maude — a former Rudd staffer who is head of the Office of National Assessments.

Abbott not only chairs the meeting, he leads it. He listens to all views and is respectful to the bureaucrats but he makes decisions and then lets people do their job.

The source on that committee claimed there had been a dramatic change since Rudd and Gillard, with the latter accused of often not even turning up when she was deputy PM.

“Everyone in that room has drawn a lot of strength from the PM in the past week,” said the insider. “And these are some pretty seriously smart people.”

But Abbott’s office has also come into its own over the past week. Few would remember that his Chief of Staff Peta Credlin was a former international defence policy adviser to Defence Minister Robert Hill.

Andrew Shearer, Abbott’s national security adviser, also worked under John Howard and has been the bridge to Washington throughout the current crisis.

The depth of experience in the national security team in the PM’s office — and in key portfolios — should now be evident to everybody. It is certainly privately acknowledged, however reluctantly, by some senior Labor MPs.

Just as importantly, Credlin has been key to ensuring staff and ministers not directly involved in the crisis stayed focused on their own work so the machinery of government more generally doesn’t grind to a halt.

Credlin, recalling what happened during 9/11, sent an email to all advisers on Sunday reminding them of this.

“… if you are not involved in MH17 do not be distracted by it,” she wrote.

“I know that’s hard — I was in a similar position as an adviser in 2001 after September 11 — but it is critical that the ongoing work of government is progressed.”

It would be wrong to say that the handling of this tragedy has gone like clockwork.

This crisis has certainly shown where the system works. But more importantly it has exposed where the system isn’t working and where it had been run down under the former government.

There is likely to be some significant changes coming as a result.

There is also a political lesson from all of this for Labor, which continues to underestimate Abbott.

It was in the foreign affairs and national security space that Labor believed Abbott would experience his greatest failures, suggesting he would be an embarrassment on the world stage.

Yet it is in this space that Abbott has in fact had his greatest success.