Thank you Osama bin Laden, ISIS and your ilk, many thankfully departed, for making all our lives in some way a misery.
With your indiscriminate bombs and suicide bombers, aiming to maim and kill “infidels,” as you claim in your warped interpretation of Islam, blackens Islam’s name.
Divides societies and the advocates of immigration, the whole “programme of terror,” instigating a global scourge in daily lives.
Fortunately, people are stoic, despite your random sickle of death, they defy you, repel “your crackpot ideas. “
The vast majority of Muslims, like the rest of us, by simply ignoring the sick message you claim you send.
And fight you, we do.
Governments, organisations, peoples, despite periodic cowardly actions, by your lot; we will prevail, and thwart your evil attacks on humanity.
The importance of co-ordination in intelligence sharing was highlighted last week when British and US intelligence services aided Australian intelligence authorities in eliminating a major terrorist cell.
The BBC soon had the story, advising they would run it, so hastening Australian authorities to act immediately, as the attack was “imminent,” rather than “watch the subjects to gain evidence.”
The GDN has covered the details well and the comments from the Australian Federal Police Deputy Commissioner provide a grim realisation that no country is “safe” any more, from terrorism.
As Bahrain can attest.
The aim was how to down an Etihad flight from Sydney to Abu Dhabi, possibly when at cruising height, somewhere over the Indian Ocean.
An earlier plot to build a poison gas bomb, was apparently cancelled, because of the volatility of the chemical compound; hence the ISIS advise to use an “innocent meat grinder.
Police here also allege the military grade explosive, was smuggled into Australia, via Turkey, before locals would install a highly sophisticated, detonation system, “made with components from the Middle East.”
All resulting in massive airport delays, around the country, heightened security searches, instant reviews of the whole cargo scrutiny system and immediate calls for greater biometric recognition of all passengers (Australians already have this at major airports).
Far more scrutiny of foreigners’ identity documents, greater checking on reasons for travel.
The process will obviously take more time, particularly the intensive checking of luggage by ground crew.
They too, will immediately have to undergo electronic scanning process, on workplace arrival, rather than merely showing an official pass.
All passengers, domestic flights too, must be at the airport three hours before departure.
It will make airport travel clearance slower and presumably reflected in “cost creep” and taxes as airlines, passengers, all “absorb” additional costs.
To say nothing of costs of trials and keeping convicted terrorists in jail for life!
The additional accumulated economic cost of business people, and others, now wasting time in the lounge or terminals.
The joys of safe and easy travel, extensive searches of luggage and the guarantee of a safe homecoming, have all taken a turn for the worse. Terrorists only want to disrupt, inconvenience, kill.