NSW Police Middle Eastern Crime Squad,seize vehicle and make arrests

A man has been arrested and his vehicle seized by Middle Eastern Crime Squad at King St Newtown

Marie Hogg and Taylor AuerbachInner 
Daily Telegraph
October 16, 2015 

A MAN has been arrested and his vehicle seized on busy King St in Newtown this afternoon in a tactical operation by the Middle Eastern Crime Squad, which also sparked raids across south-west Sydney.

Just after 3pm two unmarked police vehicles swerved in front of a silver hatchback and at least six officers in tactical operations gear swarmed on the car.

The P-plate driver and his girlfriend were removed from the vehicle and searched by the heavily armed officers.

Newtown local Craig Warren witnessed the raid as it unfolded.

“The police came out of nowhere,” he said.

“They surrounded a car and dragged the driver out of the car and held a rifle to him.

“Two more men were also removed from the car and a woman wearing a burka. They put them on the ground and cuffed them.”

He said the three occupants were taken away for questioning. Their car was towed minutes later.

According to eyewitnesses the operation was swift and the driver was arrested.

“It literally looked out of a movie,” local shop assistant Kate O’Rourke said.

Her colleague said the man complained of heart problems and as a result the paramedics were called.

“They pinned him to the ground and then against the wall outside. He didn’t put up a fight,” Alicia Rose said.

Ms O’Rourke said the man shouted “Don’t touch my girlfriend! Leave her out of this!” as he was pinned to the ground.

NSW Police confirmed the Middle Eastern Crime Squad conducted the raid as part of an ongoing police investigation into extortion.

According to a police spokesman the investigation has also triggered raids across south-west Sydney, with more underway in Bankstown, Greenacre, Punchbowl and Condell Park.

Officers made inquiries on Tennyson Rd, Greenacre, and a raid occurred on Rosemont St, Punchbowl.

It is understood the second arrest happened at Hume Highway, Yagoona.

The operation was not related to counter terrorism or the Parramatta shooting incident two weeks ago.

Sydney Muslims out raged at NSW Police plain clothed Anti Terror Squad.

Sydney terror: Police approach to young Muslims prompts criticism

Taylor Auerbach
EXCLUSIVEThe Daily Telegraph
October 16, 2015 

THE state’s police force has assembled a plain-clothed terror squad that is taking to the streets and asking youths if they have been “approached” about Islam in an attempt to cut off recruitment.

The move, while praised by many, has prompted some to compare the tactics to those of the Gestapo – the secret police force of Hitler’s Nazi regime.

The Daily Telegraph can confirm the plain-clothed NSW Police officers are targeting areas in western Sydney where they believe terrorist recruiters are preying on vulnerable young Australians.

The unprecedented attempts to cut off radicalisation at its source have outraged some members of the Muslim community.

A video captured by a young Muslim man as he was approached by police has surfaced online and is being distributed by radical Islamic political party Hizb ut-Tahrir, a group which believes in sharia law and wants a global caliphate.

It shows two plain clothed officers – one male, one female – talking to a group of youths in Bankstown.


After asking the group to stop recording them, the male police officer asks if they have been “approached” about Islam recently.

“The reason why we’re walking around Bankstown today is to speak to the young blokes in Bankstown and see if they’re being approached by anyone in relation to Islam and stuff like that,” the officer can be heard saying.

In a statement, NSW Police said: “Community engagement is one tool we are using in the fight against radicalisation. It is crucial we identify and speak to those people at greatest risk of being targeted by those with extremist views.”

“Rather than just approaching people and expecting co-operation, the police need to work a lot harder at getting people on side.”

Muslim community leader and anti-radicalisation campaigner Jamal Daoud said he was pleased to see police making themselves visible but criticised the style of questioning in the video.

“Any activity from the police is OK but this is some kind of joke,” Mr Daoud said.

“Why are you asking about Islam? You need to ask about radical Islam or extremism or ISIS…to ask someone about Islam is stupid.”

Mr Daoud said brainwashing and terrorism recruitment was happening behind the closed doors of mosques, religious centres and book stores but added there was also a problem in public with groups like the street Dawah movement.

The NSW Police strategy has led to fervent debate on social media.

Parramatta man Michael Robert drew parallels between the religious questioning and the methods of the Hitler’s notorious secret police.

“Sorry, I don’t talk to the Gestapo,” he wrote.

Arsalaan Khan said: “I think what the police is doing is to safeguard the residents of Sydney and we should all co-operate with them.”


The video also drew harsh criticism from NSW Senator David Leyonhjelm, who was sent the footage by The Daily Telegraph.

“I don’t blame the young people for not co-operating with police. If I were in their place, I would probably have given them some lip,” he said.

“Rather than just approaching people and expecting co-operation, the police need to work a lot harder at getting people on side.

“Our police need to study up on Peel’s Principles, which state that the ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent on public approval of police actions. Unfortunately, many young people feel they have been harassed in some way by police.

“A lot more work needs to be done by the police to create a culture of respect.

“My concern is that every second week the police seem to be convincing politicians to come up with bad laws to cover up for these kinds of failures.”

Doctor stabbed, Munich Hospital over run by Muslim Insurgents.

Muslim Refugees Overrun Munich Hospital and Stab Doctor At Nearby Facility

Religious Freedom Coalition
By Editor2 
Oct 13th, 2015

CzechTVReportMuslimRefugeesThe following report is a chilling look into the future for America if Obama is successful in bringing 200,000 or more Muslims into our country during the next year. Germany is in a cultural meltdown from the Muslim invasion invited by German “leaders.”

A Czech TV reporter recently read a tragic email from a retired Czech doctor who was working at a hospital in Munich and experienced the horrors of Muslim refugees flooding into Germany.

According to the Czech report:

A friend in Prague has a friend, who, as a retired physician, had returned to work at a Munich area hospital where they needed an anaesthesiologist. I correspond with her and she forwarded me her email:

Yesterday, at the hospital we had a meeting about how the situation here and at the other Munich hospitals is unsustainable. Clinics cannot handle emergencies, so they are starting to send everything to the hospitals.

Many Muslims are refusing treatment by female staff and, we, women, are refusing to go among those animals, especially from Africa. Relations between the staff and migrants are going from bad to worse. Since last weekend, migrants going to the hospitals must be accompanied by police with K-9 units.

Many migrants have AIDS, syphilis, open TB and many exotic diseases that we, in Europe, do not know how to treat them. If they receive a prescription in the pharmacy, they learn they have to pay cash. This leads to unbelievable outbursts, especially when it is about drugs for the children. They abandon the children with pharmacy staff with the words: “So, cure them here yourselves!” So the police are not just guarding the clinics and hospitals, but also large pharmacies.

Truly we said openly: Where are all those who had welcomed in front of TV cameras, with signs at train stations?! Yes, for now, the border has been closed, but a million of them are already here and we will definitely not be able to get rid of them.

Until now, the number of unemployed in Germany was 2.2 million. Now it will be at least 3.5 million. Most of these people are completely unemployable. A bare minimum of them have any education. What is more, their women usually do not work at all. I estimate that one in ten is pregnant.

Hundreds of thousands of them have brought along infants and little kids under six, many emaciated and neglected. If this continues and German re-opens its borders, I’m going home to the Czech Republic. Nobody can keep me here in this situation, not even double the salary than at home. I went to Germany, not to Africa or the Middle East.

Even the professor who heads our department told us how sad it makes him to see the cleaning woman, who for 800 Euros cleans every day for years, and then meets young men in the hallways who just wait with their hand outstretched, want everything for free, and when they don’t get it they throw a fit.

I really don’t need this! But I’m afraid that if I return, that at some point it will be the same in the Czech Republic. If the Germans, with their nature cannot handle this, there in Czechia it would be total chaos. Nobody who has not come in contact with them has no idea what kind of animals they are, especially the ones from Africa, and how Muslims act superior to our staff, regarding their religious accommodation.

For now, the local hospital staff has not come down with the diseases they brought here, but, with so many hundreds of patients every day – this is just a question of time.

In a hospital near the Rhine, migrants attacked the staff with knives after they had handed over an 8-month-old on the brink of death, which they had dragged across half of Europe for three months. The child died in two days, despite having received top care at one of the best pediatric clinics in Germany. The physician had to undergo surgery and two nurses are laid up in the ICU. Nobody has been punished.

The local press is forbidden to write about it, so we know about it through email. What would have happened to a German if he had stabbed a doctor and nurses with a knife? Or if he had flung his own syphilis-infected urine into a nurse’s face and so threatened her with infection? At a minimum he’d go straight to jail and later to court. With these people – so far, nothing has happened.

And so I ask, where are all those greeters and receivers from the train stations? Sitting pretty at home, enjoying their non-profits and looking forward to more trains and their next batch of cash from acting like greeters at the stations. If it were up to me I would round up all these greeters and bring them here first to our hospital’s emergency ward, as attendants. Then, into one building with the migrants so they can look after them there themselves, without armed police, without police dogs who today are in every hospital here in Bavaria, and without medical help.

Talking sense at last DT Gets it

It’s a grave mistake to downplay threats

Editorial
The Daily Telegraph
October 16 2015

REMARKABLY, there are some who downplay the threat of terrorism by judging the size of that threat by what they estimate to be a very small number of successful assaults. Sydney Liberal MP Fiona Scott, for example, said over the weekend that Australia has “had 100 years, more than a century of relationships with our Islamic communities where it’s lived quite peacefully, and one little incident over 100 years has been what we have had”.

Scott later claimed she wasn’t referring to the recent terrorist murder of police accountant Curtis Cheng, or the deadly Martin Place siege, or the attempted murder of two police officers in Melbourne.

Rather, Scott claimed that her “one little incident” was the murder of four Australians in Broken Hill in 1915.

Liberal Party's Affirmative Action Village Idiot at Large Fiona Scott "‘one little incident over 100 years’ involving Islamic community"

The Liberal MP then declared in parliament on Wednesday night that her comment had not been presented accurately. “Perhaps in 20/20 hindsight I could have chosen my words slightly better,” she said, in one of parliament’s more obvious understatements. “I am sorry if people have taken my words out of context.”

Scott is wrong about being taken out of context and wrong to dismiss the scale of the terrorist threat, which is far better measured by the number of attacks that have been prevented by police. That preventive work continues, day in and day out, due to the vital necessity of curbing the terrorist menace.

The Daily Telegraph reports today that a court order identifies nearly 20 young Islamic extremists as being part of a Western Sydney group willing to commit murder or die for Islamic State. “They are in frequent communication, often in relation to matters reflecting their shared Islamist ideology,” the control order explains. “They continue to express support for the terrorist organisation, the Islamic State, or their desire to become a martyr, or to commit jihad.”


Horrifyingly, one of the group is just 12 years old. Another is 18-year-old Raban Alou, who was charged yesterday with terrorism offences over allegedly supplying the gun to Curtis Cheng’s killer, 15-year-old Farhad Jabar.

This represents thorough and effective police work against a threat that is now expanding to reach a new generation of potential terrorists. “We’re shocked that a 12-year-old is on the police radar for these type of matters,” Australian Federal Police boss Andrew Colvin told the ABC. “The problem is getting worse for Australia, not better.”

Hopefully Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s anti-terrorism summit will further clarify the extent of the problem and also point to possible solutions.

“This is a real homegrown threat,” the Prime Minister said. “And it appals all Australians and it appals all Muslim Australians.”

Turnbull is correct, but it is also a fact that Islamic extremism has an undeniably religious element, however twisted that element may be. Any serious response by authorities should not avoid or downplay this.

ASSASSINATION of Mr Curtis Cheng Charges laid UPDATE.

Terror in Australia: Boy, 12, named in court along with 17 Islamic extremists

Janet Fife-Yeomans and Geoff Chambers
The Daily Telegraph
October 16 2015.

HE is a 12-year-old boy who loves playing rugby league, won a “best trainer” award and posts selfies on his social media accounts.

But he is in such danger of being radicalised he has been named in a court control order alongside 17 extremists described in court papers as a close-knit Western Sydney group, willing to commit murder or die for Islamic State, which has been trying to source guns.

The group includes three of the five men arrested last week in counter-terrorism raids after the shooting of unarmed police accountant Curtis Cheng, four men currently locked up in Goulburn Supermax and a 16-year-old classmate of Mr Cheng’s killer, Farhad Jabar, 15.

It is understood the 12-year-old, who cannot be named, also has links with notorious Supermax prisoner Milad Al-Ahmadzai, jailed for threatening to slit the throat of an intelligence officer, and convicted armed robber Bilal Elzamtar.

They are not alleged to have had any involvement in Mr Cheng’s death. Also named in the control order granted by the Federal Circuit Court is Raban Alou, 18, charged yesterday with terrorism offences over allegedly supplying the gun to Jabar as the teen terrorist walked to Parramatta police headquarters on his deadly mission Friday October 2.

“They are in frequent communication, often in relation to matters reflecting their shared Islamist ideology,” the control order states about the group.

“They continue to express support for the terrorist organisation, the Islamic State, or their desire to become a martyr, or to commit jihad.”

The control order was taken out in March by the Australian Federal Police against terror suspect Ahmad Saiyer Naizmand, 20, who tried to flee to Syria using his brother’s passport.

It gives an insight into the tight circle of alleged extremists, naming 18 people including two sets of brothers. Naizmand has been banned from associating with all 18.

“There is sufficient information Naizmand is communicating with the Naizmand group and others in code, possibly in relation to the sourcing of firearms,” the control order states.

Since some of the named men have been arrested and locked up on terrorist-­related charges, Naizmand is said to have begun “constantly associating” with those who had previously only been on the periphery of what is labelled a “close knit group”.

“The court is satisfied on the balance of probabilities that making the order would substantially assist in preventing a terrorist act,” Judge Rolf Driver said in imposing the control order.

Named among the 18 is Omarjan Azari, 25, currently in Supermax defending charges of helping plan a terrorist act in relation to an intercepted phone conversation he had with Mohammad Ali Baryalei.

Now believed dead, Baryalei was Australia’s most senior IS leader and recruited scores of Australians to fight in Syria and Iraq.

In the phone call, Baryalei told Azari a “very senior IS figure” had ordered that random kaffir (nonbelievers) should be killed and covered with the IS flag.

The court has heard Azari is alleged to have told Baryalei there were people he knew who had “the heart” to carry out such an attack and named Naizmand under his Arabic name, Abu Moussa, as one of those people.

That phone call sparked the massive Operation Appleby counter-terrorism raids involving more than 800 officers across Sydney’s west and northwest which police said foiled a plot to “commit violent acts”. Also named was Hamdi Alqudsi, who is the first person in Australia to be charged with recruiting and sending people overseas to fight in the Syrian battlefields.

Alqudsi was arrested in December, 2014, and is facing trial over allegations he organised travel and overseas contact for seven people, enabling them to contact and fight alongside terrorists.

The 41-year-old is on bail and was controversially allowed to live in Minto mosque during Ramadan.

Another man named in the order is Milad Al-Ahmadzai, who was jailed for threatening to “slit the throat” of an Australian intelligence officer.

He is serving a sentence of five years and six months for an ATM ram-raid.

Wassim Fayad, 46, who has previously been convicted and jailed for whipping a Muslim convert who confessed to drinking alcohol and taking drugs, was also named in the control order along with Sulayman Khalid, also known as Abu Bakr.

Khalid, 21, is being held in Supermax and will stand trial next year on charges he was in possession of documents “designed to facilitate a terrorist attack”.


Another is Ali Al-Talebi, 26, in Supermax on charges of arranging $6000 to be sent to IS forces in Syria. Khalid and Al-Talebi and both defending the charges/

Also on the list is Ahmad Rahmany, 25, who was ­released on a good behaviour bond with a $500 fine after pleading guilty to possessing a Taser and ammunition when he was arrested during the Operation Appleby raids. One of those arrested and released last week, Mustafa Dirani, 22, is also named in the group on the control order.

His home was also targeted in the Operation Appleby counter-terrorism raids.

The two not named in the control order who were arrested in last week’s raids are two brothers allegedly part of a crime clan. Both have since been released. Only Alou remains in custody.

Naizmand’s case returns to court on November 9.