Australia raids homes to thwart 'terror cell'

[dArKeR]

Canberra - Australia may have broken up a terror cell with a series of raids launched after the deportation of a French national suspected of training with al-Qaeda.

Bob Carr, premier of the state of New South Wales where the man was detained, told reporters on Monday the presence of the 35-year-old Frenchman, arrested on October 9, deported to France and now being held there on suspicion of terror links, had been worrying.

Police and intelligence officers from the Australian Secret Intelligence Organisation raided at least six homes and some vehicles in Sydney on Sunday in a search for the man's contacts in Australia.

No charges have been laid

"It's likely that they are breaking up now some cell that has existed in Sydney," Carr told reporters. "I think it is likely we have prevented something."

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These Australians are starting to sound as stupid as Shit-for-Brains Bush and Asscroft!

[jonoboy]

1. I respect Bob Carr

but hearing him talk about this arrest has been weird. He's given several interviews today and he's hinted at all sorts of dramatic scenarios but there is a local Laura Norder ( 'law and order')debate going on with the conservatives banging on that society is going to hell in a handbasket, teenagers out of control etc etc and I think he's found his salvation in this beat up about some French visa over- stayer who got deported.

If the story is true of course the real scandal is the security services were completely in the dark.

( Incidently; Bob Carr is an avid historian of all things American and loves most of the Democrat Presidents. He is a great mate of Bill Clintons and they spend a lot of time together)