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Warning to all Muslims the world over seeking asylum and protection from the manifestations of their faith.
Do not under any circumstances come to Australia, for we are a Nation founded upon Judeo Christian Law and principles and as such Australia is an anathema to any follower of the Paedophile Slave Trader Mohammad's cult of Islam.
There is no ideology more hated and despised in Australia than Islam.You simply would not like it here.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)
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Those who demand you believe that Islam is a Religion of Peace also demand you believe in Anthropogenic Global Warming.
Aussie News & Views Jan 1 2009
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"But Communism is the god of discontent, and needs no blessing. All it needs is a heart willing to hate, willing to call envy “justice."
Equality then means the violent destruction of all social and cultural distinctions. Freedom means absolute dictatorship over the people."
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Take Hope from the Heart of Man and you make him a Beast of Prey
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“ If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival.
“There may be even a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves”
Winston Churchill. Pg.310 “The Hell Makers” John C. Grover ISBN # 0 7316 1918 8
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This matters above everything.
—Confucius
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'a socialist is communist without the courage of conviction to say what he really is'.
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Hontar: We must work in the world, your eminence. The world is thus.
Altamirano: No, Señor Hontar. Thus have we made the world... thus have I made it.
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Voltaire said: “If you want to know who rules over you, just find out who you are not permitted to criticize.”


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When those sworn to destroy you,Communism, Socialism,"Change you can Believe in" via their rabid salivating Mongrel Dog,Islam,take away your humanity, your God given Sanctity of Life, Created in His Image , If you are lucky this prayer is maybe all you have left, If you believe in God and his Son,Jesus Christ, then you are, despite the evils that may befall you are better off than most.

Lord, I come before You with a heavy heart. I feel so much and yet sometimes I feel nothing at all. I don't know where to turn, who to talk to, or how to deal with the things going on in my life. You see everything, Lord. You know everything, Lord. Yet when I seek you it is so hard to feel You here with me. Lord, help me through this. I don't see any other way to get out of this. There is no light at the end of my tunnel, yet everyone says You can show it to me. Lord, help me find that light. Let it be Your light. Give me someone to help. Let me feel You with me. Lord, let me see what You provide and see an alternative to taking my life. Let me feel Your blessings and comfort. Amen.
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"The chief weapon in the quiver of all Islamist expansionist movements, is the absolute necessity to keep victims largely unaware of the actual theology plotting their demise. To complete this deception, a large body of ‘moderates’ continue to spew such ridiculous claims as “Islam means Peace” thereby keeping non-Muslims from actually reading the Qur’an, the Sira, the Hadith, or actually looking into the past 1400 years of history. Islamists also deny or dismiss the concept of ‘abrogation’, which is the universal intra-Islamic method of replacing slightly more tolerable aspects of the religion in favor of more violent demands for Muslims to slay and subdue infidels"

*DO NOT CLICK ON ANY SENDVID VIDEOS *


Anthropogenic Global Warming SCAM

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Multicultural Australia's hands on our Passports

AFP swoop on two women over fake passport claims

The Daily Telegraph
May 04, 2009 12:00am

A POST office clerk and a suburban mother allegedly masterminded a fake passport racket to bring illegal immigrants into Australia.

The false passports created at Fairfield Post Office were used by a people-smuggling ring to fly illegal immigrants directly into the country, police claimed.

Postal worker Lara Triglia and her alleged accomplice Samira Al Kanani, 44, faced Parramatta Bail Court yesterday.

The women were dramatically arrested on Saturday night after police claimed their role in the racket was uncovered by a damning paper trail.

Lara Triglia, an unassuming 35-year-old clerk, was arrested in the middle of the night at the home she shares with her father.

Alleged accomplice Al Kanani, of Mt Druitt, was arrested by Australian Federal Police at Sydney airport as she tried to board a flight out of the country.

An investigation into the women began in April, after officials discovered people smugglers were using "corrupt Australia Post staff" to approve fraudulent passports and then going overseas to help immigrants skip the queue.

It is not known how the two met but the AFP will allege Triglia, whose job as an interviewing officer was to meet applicants and check that photos and documents matched up, signed off on papers linked to Al Kanani and her family.

The fake applications allegedly included three that had Australian names but photographs of "unknown citizens".

Investigators checked a driver's licence photograph from the RTA and found the name on one passport and its accompanying photograph were of two different people.

Phone records revealed the mobile number belonged to yet another person - Al Kanani's son.

The passport, in the name of an Australian citizen, was never used to fly out - just to fly in.

Another passport application was made in the name of Al Kanani's second son.

Yesterday the court was told investigators then set up a sting, ordering the Australian Passport Office to issue the fake papers.

When Al Kanani's daughter came to collect her "brother's passport" police tracked her to her car, where Al Kanani was sitting.

Police, who watched her movements for two weeks, swooped when Al Kanani allegedly tried to board a plane with the fake passport on Saturday night.

Yesterday Al Kanani appeared over video-link at Parramatta Bail Court in tears.

Despite her dramatic arrest only hours earlier, Triglia calmly faced the court.

More passports that Triglia ticked off are being analysed.

Triglia, who faces three charges of making a false statement on an Australian travel document, was granted bail.

Al Kanini faces three charges. She was refused bail.

Both will appear at Central Local Court on May 6.

Australia's Government departments are riddled with ethnic specific gangs white anting the laws of Australia by rubber stamping applications for citizenship, passports social security and Insurance claim payments.
These two are simply some very small fish in an Ocean of corruption and crime manifested by the imposition of Multiculturalism by the Labor Party starting in the Whitlam government of the 70's.

Monday, May 04, 2009

Rudd's Australia: Youth to forced into training or Civil Service

Kevin Rudd to get jobless teens training

Matthew Franklin, Chief political correspondent
The Australian
May 01, 2009

JOBLESS teenagers will be denied the dole unless they agree to undertake training under a government push to prevent the creation of a new generation of long-term unemployed.

And Kevin Rudd has offered state governments a share of a $100 million funding pool if they lift Year 12 retention rates toward 90 per cent within six years.

Speaking in Hobart yesterday, the Prime Minister said he would not allow young people made jobless by the recession to "do nothing" and would instead tighten eligibility rules for the youth allowance to press them to gain skills for use during the inevitable recovery.

And the "quid pro quo" would extend to families, with the parents of unemployed people under 20 years ineligible for Family Tax Benefit Part A unless their children were in training.

"We cannot allow, and we will not allow, as governments the skills and training needed by a growing modern economy to skip a generation because of the global recession," Mr Rudd said after state and territory leaders backed his plan at a meeting of the Council of Australian Governments. "We don't want young Australians to be out there doing nothing. We want them to use this time of economic downturn to get new skills, to prepare themselves to re-engage once the recovery kicks in."

The latest official figures show there are 78,259 people aged 16 to 20 who are neither studying nor employed and are receiving the youth allowance.

Throughout the economic downturn, Mr Rudd and Employment Minister and deputy Julia Gillard have been working on policies to avoid the trend of previous recessions during which governments reduced training, leading to skills shortages and long-term joblessness.

In a speech in Melbourne last month, Mr Rudd proposed a new "education and training compact" with young people, under which he wanted all under-25s to earn or learn. Yesterday's COAG meeting fleshed out the rhetoric, with the leaders agreeing to require all people aged under 17 years to be working or at school or full-time vocational training.

People between 17 years and 20 years will be provided with training places, along with people between 20 and 25 who have lost jobs and need to retrain.

And the Government will tighten eligibility criteria for the allowance, denying it to people under 20 and without Year 12 or equivalent qualifications unless they are at school or engaged in vocational training. "If young people and their parents want to receive government benefits, the quid pro quo is that the young person is working or earning a Year 12-equivalent qualification," the Prime Minister said.

The state and territory leaders also agreed to work to lift the Year 12 retention rate from the current 74 per cent to 90 per cent by 2015 -- advancing a previously established deadline of 2020.

Mr Rudd said there were proven links between increasing retention rates and higher economic productivity.

He said he wanted to turn the adversity of the recession into a training opportunity, ensuring that when the economy improved, young people, including the unemployed, would be skilled and ready to drive the next wave of national economic growth.

"We don't want to repeat the mistakes of the past whereby young people who lose their job become the long-term unemployed of tomorrow," Mr Rudd said.

Queensland Premier Anna Bligh, acting as spokeswoman for the leaders, said the real importance of the program was to ensure that young people did not "fall through the cracks".

Opposition employment participation spokesman Andrew Southcott said Labor had not addressed the central issue of "disappearing jobs" for younger Australians.

Additional reporting: Patricia Karvelas

This type of re training /training scheme /scams are mandatory for when Labor governments are in power,due to their high unemployment economic policies,they are always necessary, so as to remove the thousands of young people from the unemployment figures,they are still unemployed,there are just no jobs for them, and indeed a good number of them are unemployable as they are victims of Labor's socialist 'education' system, and as such have nothing to offer employers, however their name will never appear on the unemployment lists.
Former Labor PM Keating used these scams throughout his reign to full advantage.
Australians will soon have "school children" with average ages higher than that of their teachers.

The unemployment figures should no longer be regarded as a measure of non productive citizens, rather the number of people on social security should be the measure of the failure of Labor policy, given the way the Labor Government and it's fund raisers and financiers the Australian Council of Trade Unions hides the consequences of their disastrous social and economic policies.
Thousands of these 'trainee's" will be placed on disability pensions due to drug,alcohol and mental trauma, guaranteeing them and their partners never to have to work again as well as receiving numerous social security add on's and privilege's.

It's interesting that Comrade Rudd announces this scheme/scam in the footsteps of Hussein Obama recently securing the passage of Civil Service bill in the US.

I hope the Australian people are not going to be subjected to the same type of indoctrination proposed by the Hussein Obama administration.

Examples in Video's below.



I am sure the Unions would love this,especially the Teachers Federation.



The official Hussein Obama hand book, training video on how to be a good busy body in your neighborhood and how to collect information on your neighbours and their children.
What happens if you say you don't want to pledge allegiance to Hussein Obama ? do they paint an X on your front door? cut off the water to your house or dump rubbish on your lawn?
or does someone come around to counsel you ?



The last time the civil service and training scams were implemented on such a grand scale by a Socialist Government (NAZI Party) the outcomes were not very human friendly.



Of Course Hollywood just loves a Messiah,so typical of their "slobbering love affair" with their teleprompter in chief.
CAUTION you will need a bucket as you see and hear these lick spittle
Hollywood Idiots and beautiful people, try and out crawl each other to Hussein Obama's feet in order to be the first to lick them.

Hussein Obama speaks highly of Comrade Rudd,he recently praised Comrade Rudd for increasing Australia's troop commitment to Afghanistan by another 450 troops,in contrast to his berating former Conservative PM Howard for not contributing at least 20,000 Australian troops to Iraq and Afghanistan in 2007 but then again Comrade Rudd and Hussein Obama share the same political ideology of international Socialism, and both are leaders of Socialist Party's, so I guess Hussein Obama can do without those extra 19,550 Australian troops.

Saturday, May 02, 2009

Swine Fever !!!! Breaking news!!! Satellites find source of Swine Fever out break.

BREAKING NEWS !!!!!
Un named sources are saying that:

Heat and Virus seeking satellites have tracked the source of what is now known as the "Swine Fever" outbreak to a location in Saudi Arabia, known as Mecca.


World Health Organization officials say that a "Black Rock" that local legend claims to have "fallen from space" and has "mystical powers" associated with the Moon, is without doubt the source of the outbreak.

The "Space Junk" or "black rock" as seen by satellites orbiting far into space surrounded by the bodies of it 's unfortunate victims due to deadly toxic emissions.

Scientists say it is a simple matter of sending the black rock or "space junk" as it is commonly referred to, back into space and the threat to mankind will be eliminated.

Saudi authorities are negotiating with the World Health Organization for for a suitable replacement for their space junk, however Hussein Obowma has reminded them of their international responsibilities and urged them to act quickly and hand over the source of this most evil threat to mankind

Hussein Obowma has offered the Saudi King some rocks from his own personal collection of black rocks, space junk, sea shells, drift wood,dried leaves, baseball cards, bottle tops and other good stuff he keeps in a box under his bed, in exchange for the source of the Swine Fever outbreak, as a gesture of good faith to his masters in Saudi Arabia.

Teleprompter In Chief, Hussein Obowma
seen here bowing to the Saudi King Abdulla
on his recent
2009 "I hate America MORE than you do" world tour.

The UN is in lock down and no one was available to comment on any further developments at time of writing.

China's manager in Australia, PM Kevin Rudd declares "America will not protect us"

America will not protect us, warns Rudd

SMH
Jonathan Pearlman Defence Correspondent
May 2, 2009

THE Rudd Government has acknowledged that the supremacy of the US has begun to fade and Australia is preparing for an uncertain future in which it can no longer rely on the protection of its main ally.

In a fundamental shift in defence plans, the Government has explicitly declared that US primacy in the Asia-Pacific - the bedrock of the nation's security since

World War II - may be ending. The change, caused by the rise of new great powers such as China, is set to produce growing regional tensions and a "sudden deterioration" in Australia's security.

A 20-year defence blueprint, to be released by the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, today, prepares for a multibillion-dollar build-up of naval and air forces to ensure that Australia can defend its northern and sea approaches.

It says a regional shake-up is under way but US supremacy will not be blunted before 2030 and assesses the chances of an attack on Australia in the short term as "very remote".

The white paper, Defending Australia In The Asia Pacific Century: Force 2030, is the first since 2000 and outlines a range of security threats, including instability caused by the financial crisis, cyber warfare, failed states in the Pacific, Islamist terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, and climate change.

It warns that Australia must ensure it can protect itself amid an emerging range of great powers in the region - particularly China, India and Russia - which could lead to a "miscalculation" with disturbing consequences for Australia.

"Australia has been a very secure country for many decades, in large measure because the wider Asia-Pacific region has enjoyed an unprecedented era of peace and stability underwritten by US strategic primacy," the paper says. "That order is being transformed as economic changes start to bring about changes in the distribution of strategic power. Risks resulting from escalating strategic competition could emerge quite unpredictably."

The Minister for Defence, Joel Fitzgibbon, said the world faced "the beginning of the end" of the unquestioned dominance of Australia's principal ally since the Cold War.

The paper criticises China for failing to explain its substantial military build-up in recent years, which appears to have exceeded the force needed for a war over Taiwan. China's military modernisation will be little affected by the global financial crisis and is set to limit the ability of the US to control the region, it says.

"The pace, scope and structure of China's military modernisation have the potential to give its neighbours cause for concern if not carefully explained, and if China does not reach out to others to build confidence regarding its military plans.

"As other powers rise, and the primacy of the US is increasingly tested, power relations will inevitably change. When this happens there will be the possibility of miscalculation … A potential contraction of US strategic presence in the Asia-Pacific region, with a requirement for allies and friends to do more in their own regions, would adversely affect Australian interests, regional stability and global security."

The paper affirms support for the US alliance and for US-led efforts to bolster global security but warns Australia will not put troops at risk "in distant theatres of war where we have no direct interests".

Instead, the Government has focused on defending the borders of Australia, primarily by building air and naval power to protect the northern sea-air gap, maritime approaches and offshore oil and gas reserves.

A range of large-scale purchases includes a doubling of the submarine fleet to 12, about 100 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, eight frigates with submarine detection capability and - as planned - three air warfare destroyers. For the first time Australia will acquire an arsenal of sea-based long-range cruise missiles.

"The ability to deter or defeat armed attack on Australia will continue to be the primary force structure determinant … This means focusing predominantly on forces that can exert air superiority and sea control in our approaches."

The Government has kept its commitment to boost the Defence budget by 3 per cent each year until 2018, but plans to scale this back to 2.2 per cent until 2030.

It says an internal reform program will save $20 billion.

"America (Hussein) will not protect us", warns Rudd

Beijing's man in Australia, Comrade Rudd, aka Kevin "I have never been a Socialist" Rudd, aka " "Le Kewan", aka Dear Leader,aka " Kevin 07", is perhaps getting Australians ready for what his head office sees as the inevitability of the Hussein Obama led slide of the USA and the west into "International Socialism" aka Communism.

Comrade Rudd could be asked by the Australian media why he recently sent an Australian envoy to kneel at the Beijing throne of his masters, and reveal all of Australia's defense plans for the long and short term, seeking his Beijing masters approval of same before he dared implement any of them, however the Australian media are still high on the euphoria of their Dear Leader, Kevin 07's November 2007 election victory to notice anything untoward, not as if they ever did think the Australian Labor Party ever needed any busy body, media, Journalist types, scrutinizing their Party's actions.

Comrade Rudd is a big Hussein Obama fan, and if Hussein decrees something on a Monday,his echo in Australia, Comrade Rudd, will repeat it before the sun rises on the following day.
Both Hussein and Comrade Rudd have ensured their respective nations are, and will be indebted to Beijing, for at least the next three hundred years, obviously Beijing will want their money back well before then, both nations can either surrender their soverignty via debt for equity, or FIGHT when the demand for full paymenty is received and a request for an extension to the repayment terms is requested and denied by the lender.

As an Australian I am in the position of having a man who leads a party renowned for it's trechary against and contempt for Australia,it' speople and it's military forces,the Australian Labor Party, the present leader Kevin Rudd is a well documented multi millionaire internationalist, like all Socialists there is no way I would go into battle with the likes of him and his fellow Socialists behind me, If I am going to die I want to get shot in the guts not in the back by some smirking purpose bred Beijing centric, Manchurian Candidate and his cabal of Union parasites.

As for the USA, the greatest economic and military force on earth,I am wondering just how much safer ,if indeed Americans do , feel now, they have a President, who bows to the Wahabbist Saudi Arabian King Abdulla, apologises to every despotic South American Communist ruler who stands in front of him, and spews their hatred of America
into his face and plunges Americans into trillions of dollars of debt, so much debt that even their great, great, great grand children will never be able to repay.

The majority of the American population will not kneel at the feet of Internationalism I hear you say,I agree,well if the bum's that have orchestrated the circumstances that require you to do so are also in charge of the US military what will you do?

Australians and Americans got what they voted for, CHANGE !

Enjoy the ride into Chinese Communism, aka Internationalism,World View,Fairness,Time for Change.


“ If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival.

“There may be even a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves”

Winston Churchill. Pg.310 “The Hell Makers” John C. Grover ISBN # 0 7316 1918 8

Friday, May 01, 2009

Mahmoud Hawi,witnesses place Hawi at Sydney International Airport killing.

Comanchero boss struck rival Hells Angel

By Lisa Davies
The Daily Telegraph
May 01, 2009 04:00pm

COMANCHERO boss Mick Hawi was seen attacking the brother of a rival bikie three times with a metal bollard during a fatal brawl at Sydney airport, police will claim.

It has also been alleged that Hawi was seen making a “verbal threat” to Peter Zervas from the Hells Angels - and the brother of Anthony Zervas, who died in the violence – as he fled the scene.

The evidence emerged as Hawi, one of six Comanchero arrested after the melee, applied for bail in a Sydney court.

The court heard how a witness has told police of seeing Hawi “wielding a bollard and hitting Mr Anthony Zervas" while he was lying on the ground, three times above his waist.

Another witness has also told of seeing Hawi “bent at the waist” near the same man on the ground, and once he moved away “this witness noticed that there was blood on the ground in the area of the man’s head.”

The pregnant wife of Hawi was in court today to give evidence to help plead for her husband's freedom.

However, she was not called before proceedings ended this afternoon.

Hawi and five other Comanchero members are charged with affray following the attack.

Hawi, 28, of Bexley, has been in custody on a charge of affray since his arrest on April 6.




The charge stems from a March 22 brawl at Sydney airport that resulted in the death of 29-year-old Anthony Zervas, whose brother Peter is a Hells Angel.

Hawi's lawyer John Korn has argued the affray charge relates only to an incident that occurred shortly after Hawi and his associates disembarked a flight, and not the subsequent brawl that killed Mr Zervas.

But police also allege Hawi held Mr Zervas down while he was hit in the head with a bollard. "You can't ask for bail to be refused by putting before a court material on which he has not been charged,'' Mr Korn told Sydney's Central Local Court today.

"To strike someone with a metal bollard ... and cause a pool of blood about the size of a plate to come from a victim's face - it doesn't take much to understand that's capable of becoming another charge.''

Magistrate David Armati said the injuries Mr Zervas suffered, and his subsequent death, should be considered as part of Hawi's bail application.

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) will provide 170 witness statements to Hawi's legal team on Tuesday, May 5, with an unknown number of statements still outstanding.

The DPP continues to oppose bail for Hawi, but Mr Korn urged the court to consider bail options such as Hawi being placed under house arrest at his Bexley home.

Islamic Sociopaths Inc.Afghanistan Father regains Honour by Killing Daughter & Boyfriend

Afghani kills daughter, boyfriend

From correspondents in Mazar-I-Sharif

May 01, 2009 05:03am

AN Afghan man shot dead his adult daughter and her boyfriend, who were both engaged to other people, after finding them in bed together, police said overnight.

The first cousins were found together on Wednesday after the 21-year-old man entered the 20-year-old woman's bedroom in the northern province of Baghlan, a police spokesman said.

"The two were under the blanket, but still in their clothes, when the girl's angry father walked in with an AK-47 machine gun and shot them both dead," spokesman Jawaid Basharat said.

A medical examination showed the pair had not had sex, he said.

He fired about six bullets into the man and four into his daughter, Mr Basharat said.

"The father confessed that he killed them both after he found them in bed," said provincial police chief Abdul Rehmand Sayedkhaili.

The motive for the murders was likely to protect family "honour". Similar killings are common in rural Afghanistan but rarely reported.

Islam and Afghan culture do not forbid marriage between first cousins but invoke severe punishment, including death, for adultery and extra-marital sex.

Islam must be respected, after all it IS a "Religion of Peace" and indeed one of the "Worlds Great Religions"

Islam IS what Islam DOES

Dubai "It's just not safe there" Australian Nurse.

Dubai deports rude Aussie driver after he flipped the bird

By Michelle Cazzulino
The Daily Telegraph
May 01, 2009 12:00am

IT was a gesture many Australians have been guilty of making at the end of a long, frustrating day.

But "flipping the bird" to another driver landed Australian nurse Darren O'Mullane 24 days in jail and a life ban from the United Arab Emirates.

Mr O'Mullane was deported from Dubai last Thursday after being convicted of making a rude gesture to another motorist, who happened to be a UAE official,last October.

Now he is back living at his parents' North Coast home.

He told The Daily Telegraph yesterday his wife Marie had been forced to leave her job in Dubai, along with the couple's home, cars and pet cat, following his sentence.

While he admitted he had done the wrong thing, Mr O'Mullane said he had been tired and stressed out after a 13-hour shift in the intensive care unit of Dubai's American Hospital.

"We'd had a local Emirate man suffering alcohol withdrawal who was aggressive and violent and a schizophrenic woman who was in quite a bad state when she arrived," he said.

"I just wanted to get home and there was a clown in front of me who was all over the road, talking on his mobile and I ended up having to overtake him to get past him. Out of frustration I flipped him the bird. I know it was wrong but it was completely impulsive. I was just like, 'You idiot'."

Mr O'Mullane said the other driver then tailgated him, overtook his car, slammed on his brakes and followed him to his apartment where a short altercation took place, with the other driver then reporting him to police.

Despite making a full confession and offering several apologies to the Dubai man, he spent 24 days in jail and was then immediately deported.

Mr O'Mullane said he engaged a lawyer to appeal against the sentence, but was unsuccessful. He and his wife approached the Australian consulate but were told staff "could not be seen to be showing bias" by helping him.

Mr O'Mullane said his experience was a warning to other Australians to be vigilant overseas, especially in countries ruled under Sharia law.

"I don't want anyone to go through what my wife and I have been through," he said.

"They make up the rules as they go along. People are being imprisoned for crazy things like kissing in public - the punishment doesn't fit the crime.

"It's just not safe there."

Why do Australian / Western men and women go and work in these Godless barbarous Middle Eastern Islamic dictatorships..?

Rudds Australia: Digger eaten alive by MICE in Nursing Home

'He was being eaten alive'

SMH
Christine Kellett
April 30, 2009 - 12:23PM

Queensland Health has rostered on extra staff to conduct pest control at a Darling Downs hospital after an 89-year-old nursing home resident had his ears gnawed by mice.

The LNP member for Condamine, Ray Hopper, raised the alarm yesterday after staff at Dalby Hospital's nursing home, Karingal, found the man covered in blood on Anzac Day.

The man, a war veteran, was in a distressed state and had injuries from severe mouse bites, Mr Hopper told brisbanetimes.com.au.

"I'm told by his daughter that the poor old fellow [had] been trying to brush the mice away as they continued chewing his ears, head and neck," Mr Hopper said.

"He was so stressed that doctors put him on morphine to calm him down. He nearly died on Saturday night. He was being eaten alive."

A Queensland Health spokeswoman told brisbanetimes.com.au this morning that extra staff had been rostered on at the nursing home to deal with the infestation and mouse traps were being set.

Mr Hopper said he had written to Health Minister Paul Lucas over the incident and demanded the Environmental Protection Agency begin pest control urgently.

"I'm told there's a hold-up in getting approval from the Government's Environmental agency for poison to be used on land adjoining the hospital.

"Mice plagues are a fact of life for the Darling Downs and we need to be able to control them with whatever we can … traps and poisons ... and we don't need to be denied access to effective poisons because some bureaucrats at head office are sitting on their hands.

"Patients being bitten by mice is unacceptable … it's worse than Third World and the minister needs to stop the nonsense that poisoning is not an option."

Federal Ageing Minister Justine Elliot could not be contacted for comment, but earlier told the ABC she would consider evacuating the facility if pest control measures were not effective.

"There has been action taken in terms of the eradication measures that are in place - we are closely monitoring it," she said.

"If we ever do find a situation where we do find it's required to evacuate people, we do that very, very swiftly - that's our main concern but we are closely monitoring the situation."

Mr Hopper described the situation at Karingal as "disgusting".

"It's absolutely pathetic, while the Premier is using the Mexican pig flu as another media opportunity, no one wants to do anything to protect sick people from disease-carrying vermin in a local hospital, or nursing home,'' he said.

The Australian Labor Party led by Prime Minister / Dear Leader, Kevin Rudd is maintaining it's appalling treatment of serving and returned service men, if they are not white anting our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan they are feeding WW2 Veterans to Mice.

Our Troops in Afghanistan are been fed SLOPS whilst our Dear Leader demands three course meals for a 30 minute plane ride between Sydney and Canberra.

This Australian WW2 Veteran,eaten alive by Mice in is bed was NOT an illegal immigrant.

Dear Leaders priorities:

Rudds Australia: Illegal Immigrants reach Paradise and Australian taxpayers will PAY

Pauline dudded of urgent treatment

Rudd's Australia: More illegals arrive at Barrow Island

Australia's Dear Leader can always find taxpayers money for what he and his supporters describe as "Australia's international responsibilities"... pity he and they have no sense of responsibility towards Australians.

Kevin Rudd blows up over special VIP jet meal

EXCLUSIVE by Steve Lewis and Ian McPhedran
The Daily Telegraph
April 03, 2009 07:20am

PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd was forced to apologise mid-flight to an RAAF cabin attendant on a VIP jet after he berated her because his "special" meal went missing.

The 23-year-old air force staffer wept and reported the matter to the senior cabin attendant after Mr Rudd reacted "strongly" when told his meal request could not be met.

An official report was filed by 84 Wing and the VIP Fleet Group commander Captain Peter Wood, detailing the behaviour of "VIP No. 1", Mr Rudd.

"The crew were distressed but later in-flight apologies were made by all," the report said.

The attendant later composed herself and continued with the service.

Trim and terrific: Mrs Rudd looking good for the G20 summit

The incident occurred as Mr Rudd, Treasurer Wayne Swan and other senior officials boarded the VIP jet to Canberra after attending the Pacific Islands Forum in Port Moresby in January. Mr Rudd has been losing weight and is on a non-red meat and fruit-only for dessert diet.

According to the report, cabin crew on board the taxpayer-funded Boeing 737 VIP aircraft from the RAAF's number 34 Squadron were not even aware of the meal request that caused the blow up.


Australian Diggers fighting diet of tasteless gruel

Ian McPhedran
Herald Sun
April 27, 2009 12:00am

AUSTRALIAN Diggers risking all on the deadly battlefields of Afghanistan are fighting on a diet of tasteless gruel.

Soldiers bombarded Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon with complaints when he made a secret Anzac Day visit to Oruzgan Province on Friday, prompting him

to pledge to fix the problem.

Senior officers have conceded the poor diet is affecting morale and soldiers' health, and have ordered a study into the nutritional value of the food.

The Herald Sun took the taste test on Friday at the Dutch-run mess at Tarin Kowt military base after learning of complaints about food quality.

The tasteless slab of roast pork was submerged in a sea of equally flavour-challenged gravy, and the pumpkin had long since morphed from a solid vegetable

to liquid gruel.

The other choice was an equally inedible turkey slice.

As Diggers from the Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force confront a limited daily diet, just up the road their comrades from the Special Operations Task

Group (SOTG) enjoy fresh vegetables and quality cooking.

The difference was obvious at an Anzac Day breakfast hosted by SOTG, as our exclusive images show.

Mr Fitzgibbon heard plenty of complaints about the food and vowed to act.

Numerous soldiers and senior officers told him the "kings versus paupers" attitude was divisive and unfair.

Special forces troops eat in a mess that is financed and run separately from the normal army channels.

The "special" mess employs qualified cooks and uses only fresh ingredients.

For the troops of the MRTF, it is Dutch gruel or a hamburger.

The issue is bigger than just the Diggers complaining to their partners at home.

Commanding officer Lt-Col Shane Gabriel said the difference in food had affected both nutrition and morale.

He has commissioned a study into the nutritional value of the MRTF food.

The SOTG runs its own tight supply lines and team of cooks, while the Dutch mess runs at half capacity and is forced to import prepared meals.

After several complaints back home, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Defence Force chiefs are also now involved and want the problem fixed.





Saudi Arabia: 8 year Old Girl granted divorce from 50 year old man

Girl, 8, granted divorce - report

News.com.au
April 30, 2009 07:40pm

AN eight-year-old Saudi girl who was sold into marriage by her father has been given a divorce after an international outcry over the case, Saudi media reports.

The marriage of the girl to a man reportedly in his 50s was annulled on Wednesday in out-of-court settlement overseen by a new judge in the city of Onaiza, after the original judge in the case refused to bend to pressure to grant the divorce, several newspapers reported.

Riyadh newspaper said the settlement was reached after the intervention in the case by an unidentified "important personality".

The girl's father had sold her last year to the man in exchange for a dowry.

When her mother found out, she petitioned the court for a divorce for the girl.

The judge twice rejected her case - though he stipulated that the marriage could only be consummated after the girl attained puberty.

An appeals court sent the case back to the judge suggesting he reconsider, but he ruled again last week against divorce.

The case garnered strong criticism from international rights groups and foreign diplomats raised the issue quietly with the Saudi government, according to AFP sources.

UN Children's Fund executive director Anne Veneman said earlier this month that the child's rights were being violated.

"UNICEF joins many in voicing concern that child marriage contravenes accepted international standards of human rights," she said.

You see it IS one of the worlds "Great Religions" not only can an eight year old girl be SOLD to a 50 year old man, It also allows their mothers to petition the Court against it if they find out about the sale,and the civilized world has the opportunity to protest about it, so hey what was all the fuss about?

Miss Universe Australia "Body Image" Fracas

Stephanie Naumoska is she TOO Skinny?


Unintended Consequences of Kangaroo Cull

From the Cute & Cuddly File

Dutch Royal Family in "Car attack"

BBC
1 5 09

A car has crashed into a crowd watching a parade involving Dutch Queen Beatrix and her family, killing four people and seriously injuring several others.

The car eventually careered into a monument, narrowly missing an open-topped bus carrying the royals.



No members of the royal family were hurt in the incident, in Apeldoorn, about 90km (56 miles) from Amsterdam.

Dutch officials said the driver, who was seriously hurt in the crash, appeared to have acted deliberately.

But after searching the car and his home, investigators have ruled out terrorism as a motive.

They have not named the man, but said he was a Dutch national aged 38.

Apeldoorn mayor Fred de Graaf told a news conference that four people had been killed in the incident and 13 injured - five of them seriously.

'Royal shock'

Cynthia Boll, a photographer at the scene, told the BBC the car was already badly damaged before it slammed into the crowds at high speed.

"There were people everywhere, you could definitely see that it was serious because everywhere was blood and shoes ripped off and all the people giving CPR," she said.

The crowds were celebrating Queen's Day - a national holiday in the Netherlands when thousands of people take to the streets to mark the queen's official birthday.

Officials said flags are at half mast on government buildings across the country and all planned celebrations have been called off.

Witnesses said the streets of Apeldoorn are now empty.

In a statement from the royal family, the queen gave her condolences to the victims of the crash.

"Her majesty the queen, on behalf of other members of the royal family, expresses her shock at the incident," the statement said.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Rudds Australia: Illegal Immigrants reach Paradise and Australian taxpayers will PAY

Asylum-seekers on Christmas Island receive payments

By Andrea Hayward
News.com.au
April 29, 2009 11:43pm

A FAMILY of four asylum-seekers living on Christmas Island in community detention receives up to $1000 a fortnight from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC).
DIAC spokesman Sandi Logan said 33 asylum-seekers who had undergone health and security checks were living in houses in the community while awaiting outcomes of their visa applications.

A further 40 asylum-seekers, mostly family groups, women, children and those with special needs, are in alternative detention while 193 single men are detained at the Christmas Island Detention Centre.

Women and children are not housed in the detention centre itself, and instead live in alternative detention called the construction camp near the Poon Saan neighbourhood on the island.

Mr Logan said adults in community detention were given $100 cash and $360 in store credit, which can be used at one of two local stores, a fortnight to buy food and other items.

A family of two adults and two children would receive $300 cash and $766 store credit each fortnight, which is administered by the Red Cross.

There were no figures available for the number of families on the island.

Those under the age of 18 who were deemed unaccompanied minors in community detention receive $50 a week and each household consisting of up to five minors, who are looked after by a carer, is given $900 a week for food and supplies.

Mr Logan said those on community detention had to cook and buy their own food.

"We can't put them out in community detention and let them starve," he said.

Some chose to save their money and buy luxury items including sunglasses and MP3 players, and were entitled to do so, Mr Logan said.

Inside the detention centre, detainees have 20 internet terminals.

"There is also a telephone available in each of the (eight) compounds and they are issued with a phone card each week to make phone calls, it could be to their representatives, to friends or to others ...," Mr Logan said.

The calls are unrestricted and include international calls.

Mr Logan said the detainees are encouraged to participate in activities and are rewarded for attending English classes and helping out in the detention centre.

The reward system has been in place for some time in Australian detention centres, Mr Logan said.

Detainees are free to move around the inside of the detention centre, often playing cricket and soccer on the oval, but have a night-time curfew when they go back to their single rooms.

The centre was built by the Howard government at a cost of $400 million and is located on the remote corner of Christmas Island, an Australian territory 2,600km northwest of Perth.

More than 200 people including 38 DIAC staff are on the island to support the centre.

More than 130 asylum-seekers picked up in the interception of four boats since Saturday, including two today, will also be taken to Christmas Island. It is not known when they will arrive on the island.

Anything Rudd's illegal Muslims want or demand,but NOTHING for Australians in need.

Pauline dudded of urgent treatment

Rudd's Australia:More Illegals arrive at Barrow Island

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Australia: Hilel Merhi Good Riddence to Middle Eastern Rubbish

Violent thug Hilel Merhi lived and died by the gun

By Kara Lawrence
The Daily Telegraph
April 28, 2009 12:00am

HILEL Merhi was a loud-mouthed young man with a penchant for extreme violence.

Armed with a pistol, he had robbed liquor and video stores and petrol stations, and had his driver's licence disqualified because he was a danger on the roads.

As the Sydney criminal world was speculating yesterday about who ambushed Merhi, pumping five rounds into him at close range at a party at the weekend, the 25-year-old's family and friends were in mourning as his funeral was held.

A former prisoner who met Merhi in jail said yesterday: "He was a very confident character and was very outspoken - in other words he was a smart arse"

Merhi's shooting at a 21st birthday party in Merrylands on Saturday night was breathtaking in its audacity. Two hooded men walked through a gate of the Davies St property towards an outdoor carport where people were dancing, talking and laughing.

One of the men walked up to Merhi, who was an uninvited guest at the party, and fired repeatedly.

Then the men fled, pursued by some partygoers, down the street and around the corner into Price St, where they jumped into a late-model Commodore and fled.

Police confirmed yesterday they believed Merhi's criminal activities were linked to his shooting.

Merhi's criminal record dates back to 2002 when he was charged with driving recklessly at Casula, had his licence suspended and was given a good behaviour bond.

He graduated quickly to more violent crime.

In late 2003, he went on a gun spree. In October of that year he allegedly pulled a pistol on fellow students at Miller College of TAFE.

Students fled for safety to the nearby Liverpool Catholic Club, but when police arrested Merhi later that night he claimed the gun was a cigarette lighter.

Days later, while armed with a silver pistol, he forced a female employee of Video Ezy Moorebank to hand over $250.

His next two armed robberies in the next two months netted him $1300 from Prestons Village Liquor and $500 cash and 32 packets of cigarettes from BP Moorebank.

He was sent to jail for maximum two years and eight months and ordered to undergo drug and alcohol rehabilitation.

He was released from another stint in jail in the middle of last year after serving time for driving offences.

Pauline Talty, Australia: Why Americans should think twice about Hussein's "Universal Health Care"

Pauline dudded of urgent treatment

Peter Dutton
News.com.au
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Pauline Talty – the woman surviving in Royal Prince Alfred as she fights for government assistance for a bowel transplant – has been badly let down by the health system that should be helping her.

Proud Australian's Pauline Talty and Leo Sayer.
Pauline has been treated just as Australians would expect to be treated by their Socialist Government, she has been ABONDONED.

When you have socialised medicine the Government works on the fact that many,many of those requireing treatment will DIE before they make it to the "list" yes LIST, not the fricking operating table the bloody LIST,either from their medical condition or age.


Unlike hundreds of Illegal Islamic "refugees" who wash up on Australia's shores almost daily now since the Socialist Rudd government came to power in 2007,Pauline Talty is NOT able to access ANY of the "TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS " for instance,that has miracousily appeared to treat Middle Eastern Illegal immigrants, after they were badly burnt, after they voluntarialy set fire to their boat so as to ensure they were picked up by the Royal Australian Navy and taken to Australia's mainland,and take a seat on the Australian Labor Party's Islam, Refugee friendly, life time social security gravy train.
No expense has been spared for these criminals in treating them or providing them their every want and need
so as not to offend their "Religious and Cultural sensitivities"
Pauline Talty however is neither a "refugee" or a "Muslim" she is one of the Australian Labor Party's most despised and reviled, she is an Australian.


Comrade Rudd and his Beijing / Marxist worshipping underlings that are his partys (Australian Labor Party, ALP) financiers, The Australian Council of Trade Unions, ACTU, see themselves as Internationalists first second and third, and as such have no time for Australians, least of all unwell Australians.



Last week, more than five months after she first applied to the Medical Treatment Overseas Program to travel to America, MTOP funding was rejected for a second time.

Nicola Roxon’s health chiefs in Canberra say Pauline doesn’t qualify because transplant treatment is available at a hospital in Melbourne where, I might add, not one bowel transplant has yet been attempted.

The advice of four medical experts that Pauline should undergo a transplant in America has been discounted.

Pauline Talty has been dudded in this process.

The plain fact is she should have been approved for overseas treatment months ago and the health department’s own documents clearly show that.

Pauline first applied for help last October.

In November, the department officials were told that “intestinal transplantation is not” currently offered in Australia – which should have led to a positive decision for her.

In January the department was told again “no intestinal transplant has been performed…in Australia”, yet an initial decision,

confirmed last week, was made to reject her MTOP application.

It appears to have been made on the basis that transplants could be carried out here in the future; Pauline was in effect being told she would have to wait for that day to come, even though she might die in the meantime.

There appears to be significant inconsistencies in reports before the department.

I think it’s outrageous! Pauline Talty should already be receiving treatment in hospital in America.

Minister Roxon needs to show some gumption. Get involved and turn this decision around.

Rudd's Australia:More Illegals arrive at Barrow Island

Note ALL BLUE coloured TEXT represents the VIEWS of Aussie News & Views and NOT those of Peter Dutton, I have inserted the picture and the comments underneath the picture written in BLUE, Capisch?

Hilel Merhi, shot DEAD.

Hilel Merhi was shot dead like a gangland killing

By Adam Walters and Chelsea White
The Daily Telegraph
April 27, 2009 12:00am

GANG life was the theme of his MySpace page and "gangland" would be the style of Hilel Merhi's death at a friend's 21st party.

He was shot several times from close range with a handgun after two hooded men crashed the party at Merrylands.

Gallery: Scenes from the birthday party


Birthday girl Tania Merhi, who was not related to the victim, was among the stunned witnesses.

One said: "Three guys just walked in and shot him on the dance floor."

A woman who was among the 100 guests said there didn't appear to be any argument.

"They just shot him and ran out before everyone started screaming," she said.

The victim, 26, described himself on his MySpace page as a "straight, single and athletic hustler, earning $250,000 a year".

The opening screen is adorned with a sinister illustration of a pistol and a hotted-up car under the title of Gang Life.

He painted a picture of a young man in a hurry, updating his mood status on April 21 to "impatient".

Neighbours thought they were hearing fireworks when the gunshots echoed through Davies St late on Saturday night.

Those at the party said it was a mix of invited guests and gatecrashers.

One of the partygoers, who didn't want to be identified, said the victim had no chance.

"I just saw him lying there with holes in his upper body. He wasn't moving and it seemed to take forever for the ambulance to arrive," the witness said.

"The cops actually beat the ambulance here but there was nothing they could do."

Some of the party's guests attempted CPR but Hilel was later pronounced dead on arrival at Westmead Hospital.

"I'm so devastated. What's this world coming to? May God forgive his bad doing," friend Lexy Saleh said.

Neighbours said Tania's grandfather, who raised her from a young age, went to extraordinary lengths to ensure the safety of guests, hiring their own security for the party.


Sarah, oh Sarah!!!

Sarah Murdoch
Displays Bonds Ladies undergarments as only she can.
One of Sydney's Northern Beaches most beautiful exports to the world.
(Yes Rupert's daughter in law, Lachlan's wife)


Indonesia: Christian Minister & Wife Hacked to Death in the land of the "Religion of Peace"

Priest, wife hacked to death in Indonesia: police

YahooNews.com
April 27, 2009

JAKARTA (AFP) - An elderly Christian priest and his wife were hacked to death with machetes in Indonesia, police said.

Frans Koagow, 64, and his wife, Femy Kumendong, 73, were found in the priest's home in Manado city, North Sulawesi province, Saturday with deep slash wounds to their heads and necks, provincial police spokesman Benny
Bella said.

"The priest was cut from behind in the neck while his wife was cut in the head while she lay down sick with a stroke," Bella said.

"The priest had been squatting down to tie his shoes when he was attacked... there was no time for him to fight back."

Bella said police were looking for suspects but were unsure how many people were involved in the attack.

"We found a machete but we don't know if it was one that was used in the murder," he said.

North Sulawesi province is a stronghold of mostly Protestant Christianity in Indonesia, where Muslims make up roughly 90 percent of the national population.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Pakistani men beaten and shaved by Taliban for listening to music

Taliban militans shave four men as punishment for listening to music

From correspondents in Peshawar, Pakistan
News.com.au
April 26, 2009 05:38pm

TALIBAN militants in northwest Buner district shaved the heads and moustaches of four Pakistani men as punishment for listening to music, one of the men said.

Buner has been subject to huge US concern after hundreds of Taliban fighters advanced into the area from the neighbouring Swat, where the hardliners fought a brutal, nearly two-year insurgency to enforce Islamic law.

"I was with three other friends in my car, listening to music when armed Taliban stopped us and, after smashing cassettes and the cassette player, they shaved half our heads and moustaches,'' he said.

"The Taliban also beat us and asked us not to listen to music ever again,'' said the terrified man.

Local police said they had no information about the incident.

The victim said neither he nor his friends lodged a complaint with police, as this would have been "useless.''

"It might have annoyed the Taliban further and I fear for my life,'' the man said.

Residents in Mingora, the main town in Swat, said Taliban posters had been put up in streets and markets ordering women not to go shopping.

The posters had appeared after the Taliban's controversial agreement with the government to enforce Islamic law in the region.

"We will take action against women who go out shopping in the markets and any shopkeeper seen dealing with women shoppers will be dealt with severely,'' read the poster from the Swat branch of Tehreek-e-Taliban.

"The peace agreement does not mean that obscenity should be re-born,'' it added.

Hardline Islamists in the extremist Taliban consider it "obscene'' for women to leave their homes, and ban females from venturing out in public without an immediate male relative -- namely a father, brother, son or husband.

For years, Swat was a popular ski resort frequented by Westerners but the Pakistani government effectively lost control of the mountainous district after the violent Taliban campaign to enforce sharia law.

12 Year old caught torturing Dog on Camera

Sociopaths Inc. latest recruit demonstrates her handy work




Twelve Year Old Girl caught kicking and torturing neighbors Dog, on camera.
Yes you guessed it she will be "counceled" by the RSPCA, how long before this charmer will be caught out torturing children?
Better to take this piece of shit out of the gene pool NOW before it has the opportunity to graduate to torturing humans.I know that wont happen... too many do gooders and professional compassionista's would be out of a job.

Australia: Muslim scum rob house then bash Australian

Muslims Scum rob house then bash Australian who videoed their escape



'Sic' Aussie bashing vid posted online

By Joe Hildebrand
The Daily Telegraph
April 25, 2009 12:00am

A MAN who filmed two teenagers on his phone after they allegedly robbed a house was attacked by the pair before they stole his mobile and posted the footage on the internet.

The man had warned the pair that he had just recorded them and was taking the footage to police before they sprinted across a road and attacked him.

They then posted the footage on YouTube titled "IN GREENACRE AUSSIE GUY GETS HIT FOR RECORING JOSH ND HAMAD ROLLING A HOUSE" (sic).

Running at 18 seconds and viewed 780 times, it shows two young men running out of a house bare-chested and with T-shirts over their head before slowing to a brisk walk down the street.

The man then calls out in a broad Australian accent: "Hey mate. This is going to the police mate. I've got you on video."

The two teens then charge the phone's owner, knocking him to the ground.

Subsequent comments on the YouTube site indicate the youths stole his phone and then posted the footage, in which their faces cannot be seen.

One commenter asks: "did they steal the camera off him thats how u got this on the net?" (sic)

The poster unr8bleLebo replies: "yer we taxed (stole) his phone" (sic), however he then adds "Imao", internet shorthand for "laugh my arse off".

Another video apparently filmed near a high school in November titled "leb vs aussie at blacktown" states: "the aussie was 2x the size of the leb and the aussie got bashes i think u aussies should just fuking stick to drinking" (sic).

It has been viewed by more than 22,000 people.

The Daily Telegraph has referred the videos to police. The Greenacre video was taken down yesterday after the The Daily Telegraph made inquiries to the host.

ANZAC Day Australia 2009

ANZAC Day Australia,
and around the world April 25 2009


Saturday, April 25, 2009

Afghanistan:100 Taliban taken by Austyralian "Combat Team Tusk"

Australians take 100 Taliban

By IAN McPHEDRAN in Tarin Kowt
The Sunday Telegraph
April 25, 2009 06:57pm

AUSTRALIAN soldiers have killed more than 100 Taliban fighters and disrupted vast enemy networks in two of the biggest and most successful operations of the six-year Afghanistan campaign.
Details of the offensive were revealed during a secret visit to Afghanistan for Anzac Day by Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon who was accompanied by News Limited.

Operation Aabitoorah or Blue Sword began on March 19 in the northern Helmand province, south of the Australian base in Oruzgan Province and involved Dutch, British, American, Australian and Afghani forces.

The second, called Operation Shak Hawel or Mysterious Area, was fought by troops from the Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force between April 3 and 15 around Patrol Base Buman in the Chora Valley north of Tarin Kowt.

More than 200 diggers or almost half of the battle group led by Darwin based Lieutenant Colonel Shane Gabriel took part with an Afghan National Army battalion.


During the biggest battle on April 12 dozens of Taliban fighters perished as they attempted to defeat the diggers from Combat Team Tusk in the fertile green belt.

"They tried to stop us doing what we wanted to do and they came off second best,'' Lt Colonel Gabriel told News Limited.

Troops from the task force have been engaged in numerous heavy fire fights during offensive patrols to mentor and instruct their Afghan comrades.

Mr Fitzgibbon received full details of the operations and spoke to the troops during a secret two-day tour of Australian bases in the lead up to Anzac Day at Tarin Kowt where Vietnam war hero and Victoria Cross holder Keith Payne was the guest of honour.

Mr Fitzgibbon became the first Australian minister to venture "outside the wire'' flying in a Chinook chopper low along the fertile valleys to forward operating bases framed by snow capped peaks, to judge the progress for himself.

Australian commander Major General Mark Kelly said Special Operations Task Group (SOTG) troops from the Perth based SAS Regiment and Sydney based Commando Regiment operated deep inside a Taliban stronghold for 26 days during "Blue Sword".

He said the number of enemy dead was not a measure of success, but he told News Limited that the tally was in excess of 80.

"It is a significant achievement by our soldiers over an extended combat mission.

"It has really disrupted the insurgent network in this part of regional command south,'' General Kelly said.

The specialist diggers were attacked by roadside bombs, rocket propelled grenades, mortars and small arms fire and despite the intensity of the action just one Australian, Sydney based bomb disposal expert Sergeant Brett Till, was killed and four others wounded including one who lost his legs.

In addition to the number of enemy casualties, including bomb maker and leader Mullah Abdul Bari, the Australians uncovered numerous weapons caches and up to 14 improvised explosive devices in a day.

Mr Fitzgibbon, who toured Australian built hospitals and schools as well as fighting bases, said the latest operations were a major setback for the Taliban.

He said it was vital for the Australian people to understand these intense and deadly operations and just how dangerous and challenging the job was for the diggers.

"We are making real progress in Afghanistan.

"I wish to thank every man and woman in the Australian Defence Force who is making a contribution to what is a very important campaign,'' Mr Fitzgibbon said.

Commander of Regional Command South Dutch Major-General Mart de Kraif said the operation had disrupted insurgent activities including the drugs trade.

He said Australian special-forces troops had applied massive pressure to the insurgent leadership.

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