Islamic Terrorism: Dirty Bomb or "man caused disaster" ?

Is a "Dirty Bomb" made and detonated by Islamic Terrorist the same as an Obama "man caused disaster" ?
If not, when will,Obama tell us,or admit who is responsible for
"man caused disasters" ?

Best we all keep our eyes open for "man caused disaster" facilitators then.

Rudd must come clean about China briefing before US visit

PM 'must reveal details' of China talks

By Sandra O'Malley
NineMsn.com.au
Tue Mar 24 2009

Nationals Senate leader Barnaby Joyce has called on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to reveal details of a meeting with one of China's most senior officials.

On Saturday, the prime minister met Li Changchun at The Lodge in Canberra, at the start of a four-nation tour for the fifth most senior Chinese Communist Party official.

Why would Comrade Rudd ban Australian media, from covering his "briefing" (aka.taking instructions from) the fifth most important man in the Communist Party of China, Li Changchun, before Comrade Rudd set off to visit Comrade Obama?

While Mr Rudd's office released minimal information about the engagement, China's official CCTV news network had a more detailed report.

Mr Rudd's office was not immediately available for additional comment.

The visit comes as the Foreign Investment Review Board mulls state-owned Chinalco's $30 billion grab for a larger share of Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto.



Treasurer Wayne Swan will make the ultimate decision about whether the Chinalco bid is in Australia's national interest and if it will get the go-ahead.

The perceived lack of information about Mr Li's visit has aroused suspicion in some quarters of the Australian media and Senator Joyce has accused Mr Rudd of being downright sneaky.

"My concern is if Mr Rudd is doing side deals to ... secure (votes for his bid on) the UN Security Council," Senator Joyce told AAP.

"Here we have something so palpably of concern to the Australian electorate that is being swept under the carpet.

"I find it outrageous we have to find out from a Chinese source who is having lunch with our prime minister."

Australia is trying to secure enough votes for its 2013-14 bid for a temporary seat on the Security Council. It is taking on Luxembourg and Finland for the two available seats.

Senator Joyce said the easiest way for Mr Rudd to clear up speculation on whether he was lobbied about Chinalco was to disclose what was discussed at the lunch.

"Mr Rudd is being totally and utterly sneaky," he said.

"He is not being forthright and transparent in the way he is acting.

"Why are people concerned about this? It is because he would have been discussing handing sovereignty of our nation to another nation."

According to CCTV, Mr Li told Mr Rudd both countries should maintain high-level exchanges and he extended an invitation to the prime minister and other Australian leaders to visit China.

"(Mr Li) suggested the two countries expand economic cooperation on the basis of mutual benefits," the network reported.

"And Li also suggested that both countries maintain close consultation on major issues such as the financial crisis and climate change."

Mr Rudd, a Mandarin speaker, praised the stimulus measures that China had adopted to deal with the financial crisis, CCTV reported.

The Spin on the US visit

Sydney's Occupied Territories:Mahmoud Dib refused bail Video of court fracas

Bandidos Sergent-at-Arms Mahmoud Dib refused bail, supporter arrested for allegedly spitting at photographer

News.com.au
March 24, 2009 05:11pm

A SENIOR Bandidos bikie has been refused bail on weapons charges, with one of his supporters arrested outside a Sydney court for spitting on a photographer.

Bandidos Sergent-at-Arms Mahmoud Dib, 27, appeared briefly in Burwood Local Court today on six weapons-related charges.

He was arrested earlier in the day by detectives investigating a series of shootings in suburban Sydney allegedly involving outlaw bikie gangs.

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Wearing a red hooded jumper and supported by a handful of associates, Mr Dib sat silently throughout his brief court appearance.

His lawyer Mohammed Masri did not apply for bail on his behalf, instead asking for the bail hearing to be adjourned until Friday.

Bail was formally refused by Magistrate Michael Dakin, who set down a bail hearing for Friday.

There were dramatic scenes outside the court after police swooped on an associate of Mr Dib for allegedly spitting on a Daily Telegraph news photographer.

See " Trick Spitter " arrested.

Other associates of Mr Dib verbally abused reporters and cameramen as they left the area.

Sydney's Occupied Territories: Arms Mahmoud Dib arrested and charged on firearms charges

Senior Bandidos bikie arrested on firearms charges

News.com.au
March 24, 2009 03:13pm

A SENIOR Bandidos bikie gang member has been charged with seven firearms offences as police investigate a string of shootings in Sydney's southwest.

Bandidos Sergeant-at-Arms Mahmoud Dib, 27, was arrested about 10am (AEDT) today following a raid on his home on Park Rd in Auburn at 6am.

He has since been charged with six firearms offences, including possessing a firearm in a public place and possessing an unregistered firearm, after gang squad detectives found a loaded gun in a car owned by Mr Dib parked in a Guildford St last Monday.

Acting Superintendent Angelo Memmolo, from the Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad, said a .45 calibre semi-automatic pistol, loaded with seven bullets, was found in the car.

Mr Dib wasn't in the car at the time, but was in the area, he said.

Acting Supt Memmolo said no drugs or weapons were found in the early morning raid on Mr Dib's home.

However, police have seized two Harley-Davidson motorcycles, which they believe may be stolen.

Mr Dib was refused bail to face Burwood Local Court later today.

NSW police are targeting Sydney's bikie gangs following a fatal brawl at Sydney airport on Sunday in which the 29-year-old brother of a senior Hells Angel was bludgeoned to death.

Australia: Muslim refused employment in Christian school.

Muslim student teacher refused position at Christian college

by Kellie Cameron
WyndhamLeader
24 Mar 09 @ 12:40pm

A MUSLIM student teacher has labelled a Christian school in Wyndham discriminatory for refusing her a position based on her religion.

But Heathdale Christian College is standing by its decision, saying that as a faith-based school it expects its teachers, including student ones, to support its Christian perspective.

Mother-of-two Rachida Dahlal, 35, has complained to the Equal Opportunity Commission on the grounds of discrimination, prejudice and unequal employment opportunities.

The Hoppers Crossing college where she wanted to do placement said it would not have been in its, or Mrs Dahlal’s, best interests.

Mrs Dahlal said on-the-job training was a requirement of her one-year diploma course in secondary education at Victoria University, and that the college was on a list of schools provided by the university offering trainee positions.

She said she chose Heathdale because it was the closest to her home and her sons’ childcare centre and also one of few schools in Wyndham offering both her specialty subjects of mathematics and French.

“I am Muslim, wear a head scarf, and respect all fellow humans regardless of their beliefs, race, or cultural background,” she said.

Mrs Dahlal said that as a result of the knock-back in February, she had started placement late at The Grange P-12 College in Hoppers Crossing, which did not offer French. She is observing Italian classes, but does not understand the language.

Heathdale principal Reynald Tibben said the Christian school was not the best option for Mrs Dahlal.

“It was not in her interest to expect her to operate in a culture that was different to her own religious standards,” he said. “To expect her to support the Christian ethos and practice of the college would have been unreasonable, just as it would be for me to operate as a teacher in a Muslim school.”

Victoria University acting vice-chancellor Prof John McCallum said it told Mrs Dahlal that the college had a policy of accepting only student teachers whose values were “consistent” with ths school’s.

“Armed with this information, the student decided to proceed to interview with the school,” he said.

Prof McCallum added: “In many instances Muslim students have been successfully placed in Christian schools.”

Mrs Dahlal said she was not told of any policy, only that she would not be able to speak about religion while on placement.

Mr Tibben said the college had offered to let Mrs Dahlal see its French curriculum.

The Equal Opportunity Commission said it could not comment on individual cases because its complaints process was confidential.

At last some backbone been shown, now lets see the Labor State Government Islam friendly Socialist's try and crush this school with their taxpayer funded Islamic Star Chamber.see
Salt Shakers

Australia: Discrimination AGAINST white Males to be legalised

Islam can only exist as a DISRUPTIVE Minority or
as an OPPRESSIVE Majority

Sydneys Occupied Territories: "Taliban of Lakemba" make move on LMA

Breakaway Muslims vote to dismiss executive

Angus Hohenboken, Natalie O'Brien
The Australian
March 24, 2009

A FAULTLINE through the most powerful Muslim organisation in the country deepened last night as a breakaway faction of the Lebanese Muslim Association voted to sack its executive.

The meeting of young MLA members, labelled the "Taliban of Lakemba" by controversial Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali, was held outside Bankstown Town Hall in west Sydney after the group was reportedly shut out of the venue due to security concerns.

The 54 association members at the meeting voted unanimously in favour of motions of no confidence in the board's six executive office-holders.

"All we are asking is for a fair vote in April," Bilal Alameddine said. "From today there will basically be two boards directing what goes on in the (Lakemba) Mosque: nine on our side and six on their side."

Members said that, while the no confidence motions named the board's six office-holders, no one was singled out -- rather it was a vote of no confidence in the executive amid concerns the vote for the new board at the annual general meeting next month would be rigged.

The power struggle is mainly between the younger generation and the old guard, with tensions escalating in recent years.

LMA president Shawky Kassir said the executive would not accept the vote, as the executive was accepted by the majority of the organisation's 400 members.

"There is only one legitimate board," Mr Kassir said. "Irrelevant of its outcome, the meeting was not legal.

"They go and meet wherever they want and whenever they want -- any decision outside the proper procedure of the LMA constitutional law will not be accepted by the members and everybody around the mosque."

One senior Muslim said the younger group were "crazy and will stop at nothing".

The LMA board had previously sent a letter to the members attempting to cancel the meeting, and failed in an attempt to get an injunction in the Supreme Court to stop the meeting going ahead.

Mr Alameddine, who strenuously denied claims the group had Taliban ideology, said the cancelled venue booking was another example of the "political games" being played by the board. "The council asked the police for a risk assessment over the meeting and the police said there was no risk, but the council still cancelled the meeting because of security concerns," he said. "We are not radicals."

Bankstown City Council could not be contacted at the time of going to publication.

Trouble was expected at the Lakemba Mosque last Friday after confrontations last week between supporters of Sheik Hilali and his rivals, but a guest imam from Lebanon gave the sermon instead of Sheik Hilali.

Several scuffles have broken out during prayer times after the Nine Network's A Current Affair played security video footage of Sheik Hilali kicking in a door in his own mosque before calling in the police to report an act of vandalism.

The Muslim youths believe Sheik Hilali staged the vandalism to frame them and gain public support.

Sheik Hilali has denied the allegations and says there is more CCTV footage that proves there was a break-in.

See video post March 18 09

Sydney's Occupied Territories: Sheik Taj Din Al Hilaly, trashes Mosque then calls Police to find culprit.

Socialism and how it works Australian, ALP, style

Comrade Rudd US Bound.

Sydney's Occupied Territories:Sydney Airport Killing aftermath

Gang squad doubled after 15 minutes of airport mayhem

SMH
Alexandra Smith and Jonathan Dart
March 23, 2009 - 4:50PM

An extra 75 officers will be added to the Police Gang Squad to tackle outlaw bikie gangs after yesterday's airport violence, the Premier Nathan Rees announced today.

The increase more than doubles the size of Strike Force Raptor to 125 officers.
Rees: No airport security concerns

The New South Wales Premier announces an extra 75 officers for the Police Gang Squad after violence at Sydney Airport on Sunday.

Mr Rees made the announcement after a briefing from NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione.

Mr Scipione - who has had two conversations with the Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty today - said he understood the whole incident at Sydney Airport lasted less than 15 minutes.

He said airport security was a serious issue but would not be drawn on whether there were serious lapses in the way the incident was handled yesterday.

Mr Rees said the government was also considering toughening legislation to enable the declaration of prohibited criminal gangs and their members and restricting access of gang members to working in industries identified as high risk. No detail was provided on these industries.

"We are responding swiftly to these recent brazen acts - I will not stand by while these criminals put innocent people at risk,'' Mr Rees said.

Commissioner Keelty says he will review his officers' response to the airport incident in which a 29-year-old man died.

He admitted that police were caught unaware and said that, among the issues to be reviewed, were police numbers at the airport and the quality of police intelligence gathering before the brawl.

Impressed

But he said he has had initial briefings with the police involved and said he was impressed with the time police took to respond to emergency calls.

"The security at Sydney Airport after yesterday's incident ... the first call to triple-0 went in at 1.43pm yesterday afternoon, the first call to the airport police commander came in at 1.46pm and the first police responded at 1.47, one minute later," he said.

"So in terms of response times, it's all within acceptable response times and responsible standards. [NSW Police] Commissioner [Andrew] Scipione and I have spoken about this this morning and last night and the police were there as soon as practicable."

Mr Keelty said he was unaware of media reports that some officers stood by while the brawl unfolded.

"No I haven't [heard of the reports] and we will of course debrief the response yesterday," he said. "But in my discussions with Police Commissioner Scipione this morning we understand the response was appropriate.

"The fact that four arrests were made straight afterwards demonstrates that there was a good exchange of intelligence from the police who were first to arrive on the scene and to those police who took up the investigation."

Mr Keelty said the next step would be to review CCTV footage of the incident.

He said 14 police officers were on duty at Sydney Airport yesterday afternoon, which is consistent with the number recommended under the 2005 Wheeler report into security at Australia's airports.

"There was a full complement of staff at Sydney Airport, remembering that the staff at the airport are Federal Police people, but they are people with state police experience who are seconded to the Federal Police for airport security," he said.

"In terms of numbers at the airport, this has been reviewed three times and you can only have the number of police there that the threat and the risk examined tells you to put there.

"We will have to look at that in light of what happened yesterday, but there was nothing to suggest this was going to happen before it actually occurred, and of course had we known more about this before it actually occurred, there would have been a different type of response."

45-second rule

But international security protocols state that security staff need to be able to get to all areas within 45 seconds, an international security expert said.

"If you can't achieve 45 seconds, there's almost no point even [monitoring the area]," said the expert, who did not wish to be named.

"Terrorist events, if they are going to occur, are going to occur with the speed and the violence that we saw yesterday.

"You don't have time to wait five minutes for a response team to get there."

It had amazed him that a violent brawl resulting in a man's death had occurred at Sydney Airport, presumed to be a relatively secure public area.

"However, I'm not surprised. Australia pays lip service to its security at airports," he said.

He called for more stringent entry requirements for Australian Federal Police and changes to security procedures.

"If we look [at airports] overseas, the security is across the extreme perimeter of the building, prior to the entry, whereas in Australia the security action is only after people check in."

While it may have been difficult to predict a stainless steel bollard would have been used to bludgeon someone, the expert said authorities also had to be more vigilant in ensuring nothing at the airport could be used as a weapon.

Qantas, which operates the T3 check-in terminal where the brawl occurred, expressed shock but said the matter was one for police and that it would not comment further.

It said it was responsible only for screening passengers and that "visitors to the public area of the terminal ... are not screened".

Background

In a turf war, victims will be mown down

by Paul Kent
The Daily Telegraph
February 05, 2009 12:00am

A SCRAP of iron 4m long lay in the middle of Crystal St. The message was clear: it is only a matter of time until an innocent gets killed.

At the 7-Eleven across the road from the Hells Angels' Petersham clubhouse a green 4WD drive remained with its windows blown in.

The driver was paying for petrol when the bomb went off.

Shopfront windows were shattered, debris powdered the road, the awning in front of the clubhouse was splintered at violent angles.

Nobody was killed. Not yesterday, anyway. Tomorrow, who knows? Sydney is in the middle of a bikie war, and it is worse than any of us had thought.

Police are still uncertain who was behind yesterday's bombing - mostly because there are too many candidates to pinpoint one.

It is not as easy as saying the Hells Angels, for example, are at war with the Rebels, so it must have been the Rebels. All the gangs are at war with each other, perhaps prompted because a new gang, called Notorious, has emerged.

In their grab for turf, Notorious has almost certainly sent rival gangs back to old battle lines.

But the police know it is much worse. Within the gangs, chapters are at war with chapters.

Then on top of this there are the ethnic gangs, Lebanese and Asian, who supply and deal drugs and might have had their own point to prove to the Hells Angels yesterday.

Sydney is in fear, and rightfully so.

The Hells Angels have promised retribution for yesterday's bombing. If they know who it was then they are one step ahead of the police, who need help.

Naturally, the Hells Angels are not saying. Certainly revenge will come, and at what cost? For starters, the old rules no longer apply.

Where businesses and homes were once off limits, police fear the modern bikie who behaves as if nothing is sacred.

These police do not have a clue what is happening.

They do not know why it started. And they do not know exactly who is involved - other than to say all of them are.

Yesterday, the outmanned NSW Police picked through the debris hoping to find something that would take them somewhere.

They worked for hours.

Meanwhile Premier Nathan Rees, called to action by a frightened public, responded with silence.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd continued selling insulation for homes.

Bullets are being fired into houses with kids' bikes in the front yard.

The windows were blown out of Crystal Building Supplies next door to the clubhouse.

A sign on the side of the building read: "Reinforcing and building products, Open six days a week."

Must have been the day off.

Behind Sydney's bikie bloodshed: two gangs 'out of control'

SMH
Arjun Ramachandran
March 23, 2009 - 4:31PM

The president of one of two Hells Angels chapters in Sydney was one of the three men "ambushed" by members of the "out of control" Comanchero club at Sydney Airport yesterday, a source close to the bikie community says.

Derek Wainohu, president of the Guildford chapter, has been working to get bikie clubs to resolve their disputes peacefully, the source said.

He was returning from an anniversary party in Melbourne with a fellow Hells Angel and his brother when they were "set upon" by members of the rival club, the source said.

In the ensuing violence, the 29-year-old brother - who was not a Hells Angel member - was killed after he was bashed repeatedly on the head with a metal bollard.

"It was a social thing, an anniversary in Melbourne ... it may have been a membership anniversary for one of the [Hells Angels] members in Melbourne," the source said.

The incident bolstered opinion in the bikie community that the Comanchero and Notorious were "rogue groups" that were not viewed as genuine outlaw motorcycle groups, he said.

"They are out of control. They have a very strong Lebanese presence. They have a very strong leaning towards a much more radical approach," he said.

This "radical approach" was upsetting other clubs as the Government considers tougher legislation against bikie clubs that would allow them to be declared outlaw organisations.

"Because of the situation in South Australia, there has been a very, very strong push to establish a more appropriate methodology to dealing with issues between [clubs]," the source said.

"Derek is the driving force to try and get something in NSW so when there's a problem or disagreement in clubs it's resolved essentially around a boardroom table ... [and] none of this caper seen in Sydney.

"But what we are facing is a small minority of clubs leaning towards violence."

He described Notorious as "out of control" and the Comanchero as "mad dogs" of the outlaw motorcycle club scene.

"They are viewed as gangsters putting colours on their backs as some sort of camouflage [to make people think they are bikies]."

Even worse, the Comancheros were supporting smaller "junior" clubs that carry out acts of violence while wearing the colours of rival clubs including the Bandidos and Hells Angels.

He said senior members of those clubs had even approached senior members of the Lebanese community to try to bring the younger outlaws under control.

"They said: 'These guys are using our colours. Can you pull them into line?' " he said.

The source was not sure of the exact motivation for yesterday's attacks, but suggested Wainohu's views on some issues might have made him a target of the Comanchero.

"Wainohu has been quite parochial in relation to patriotism," he said.

"He's very vocal about the things going on in the Middle East, terrorism coming into Australia ... and on following the Australian way."

He did not anticipate swift retribution, citing the absence of an immediate "hit back" attack after the firebombing of the Hells Angel clubhouse in Petersham last month.

"I think it's the first time very senior members of the Hells Angels have been targeted in this manner. It's a very dangerous thing to do.

"But if retaliation is to occur I think it will be very controlled and measured. I don't think it will come rapidly."

While Hells Angels would have concluded "something has to be done", this could be a number of options that included retaliation or a demand for compensation.

He did not believe bikie clubs would drop their conciliatory approach to resolving disputes as a result of the attack.

"These are very intelligent men with an atypical upbringing.

"Many will be still trying to engage with these clubs and trying to bring about some sort of change."